MRC strategic GCRF awards
Infections: £11 million, 21 awards
Non-communicable diseases: £11 million, 20 awards
The 2016 Foundation Awards were flexible, moderately sized, short to medium-term investments targeting research questions of relevance to existing or future LMIC health needs.
This included:
- early-phase discovery and translation research
- extension of existing research to global settings
- population studies, sample/data collection
- novel research tools and techniques
- development of collaborations, partnerships and teams.
The scheme enabled researchers to lay the foundations for future large-scale funding applications that would ensure the sustainability of the project outputs.
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MR/P023754/1
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Paul Elkington
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University of Southampton
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Bioengineering to combat the tuberculosis pandemic
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MR/P023843/1
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David Mabey
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London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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Studies towards infectious disease elimination on the Bijagos Archipelago of Guinea Bissau
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MR/P024084/1
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Michael Begon
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University of Liverpool
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Optimal control strategies for rodent-borne zoonoses in Brazilian slum settlements
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MR/P024270/1
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Beate Kampmann
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MRC Unit, The Gambia
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Evaluating novel diagnostics and enabling preventive measures for childhood tuberculosis between the UK and partners in Sub-Saharan Africa
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MR/P024335/1
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Bethan Purse
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NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
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Optimising forest benefits whilst minimising impacts of emerging zoonotic diseases: co-developing an interdisciplinary tool for forests in India
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MR/P024378/1
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Rachel McKendry
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University College London
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m-Africa: Building mobile phone-connected diagnostics and online care pathways to support HIV prevention and management in decentralised settings.
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MR/P024416/1
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Julian Griffin
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University of Cambridge
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Identification of specific metabolites in mycolactone producing mycobacteria and Buruli ulcer infection: diagnostic biomarkers through metabolomic
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MR/P024483/1
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Jeremy Mottram
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University of York
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Assessing treatment with miltefosine as an intervention strategy for visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil
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MR/P024548/1
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Adrian Martineau
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Queen Mary, University of London
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Evaluation of a novel microbiological diagnostic test for latent tuberculosis infection in Ethiopia (Micro-LTBI)
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MR/P024661/1
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Paul Kaye
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University of York
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Towards a global research network for the molecular pathological stratification of leishmaniasis.
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MR/P024920/1
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James Wright
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University of Southampton
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Drinking-water under a "One Health" lens: quantifying microbial contamination pathways between livestock and drinking-water
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MR/P025064/1
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Graham Cooke
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Imperial College London
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SEARCH: SouthEast Asian Research Collaborative in Hepatitis
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MR/P02520X/1
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Martin James Donnelly
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Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
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Using spatial statistics and genomics to develop epidemiologically relevant definitions of insecticide resistance in African Malaria Vectors
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MR/P025226/1
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James Wood
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University of Cambridge
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The Dynamics of Filovirus Infection in bats in Ghana
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MR/P025285/1
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Lisa Reimer
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Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
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A vector excreta surveillance system (VESS) to support the rapid detection of vector-borne diseases
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MR/P025307/1
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Benjamin Makepeace
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University of Liverpool
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Rapid diagnosis of onchocerciasis using urinary biomarkers
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MR/P025404/1
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Gabriella Gibson
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University of Greenwich
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Human Decoy Trap; operational and social acceptability of novel tool to improve surveillance and control of mosquitoes and other disease vectors
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MR/P025447/1
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Poppy Lamberton
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University of Glasgow
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Cultural, social and economic influences on ongoing Schistosoma mansoni transmission, despite a decade of mass treatment, and the potential for change
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MR/P025471/1
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Rupert Quinnell
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University of Leeds
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Developing a strategy for cysticercosis control in Rwanda, to reduce the burden of epilepsy
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MR/P025501/1
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Heather Ferguson
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University of Glasgow
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Development of a new tool for malaria mosquito surveillance to improve vector control
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MR/P02551X/1
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Javier Guitian
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Royal Veterinary College
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A one health approach to the investigation and control of MERS-CoV among camel and human populations in Jordan as a potential model for the region
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MR/P022006/1
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Kevin Mortimer
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Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
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Lung health in Africa across the life course
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MR/P023851/1
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Amelia Crampin
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London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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Understanding non-communicable diseases (NCD) and the role of infection in Africa: building a partnership to generate big data
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MR/P02386X/1
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Neil Pearce
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London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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Chronic Kidney Disease of unknown cause (CKDu) in disadvantaged communities in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs)
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MR/P023894/1
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Bhismadev Chakrabarti
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University of Reading
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Development & validation of a scalable mobile platform for screening of developmental neuropsychiatric disorders in low-resource settings
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MR/P024033/1
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Paul Kelly
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Queen Mary, University of London
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Novel therapeutic approaches to malnutrition enteropathy
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MR/P024114/1
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Monica Lakhanpaul
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University College London
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Integrated Health, education and environmental (HEE) intervention to optimise infant feeding practices through schools and Anganwadi networks in India
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MR/P024297/1
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Moin Saleem
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University of Bristol
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Trans-national cohorts of nephrotic syndrome - a unified approach to a global chronic disease
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MR/P024351/1
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Christian Ottensmeier
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University of Southampton
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MICA: Immunotherapy for oral cancer prevention and treatment
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MR/P024408/1
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James Woodcock
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University of Cambridge
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Towards an Integrated Global Transport and Health Assessment Tool (TIGTHAT)
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MR/P024513/1
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David Lalloo
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Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
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Health in a changing climate: the dynamic challenge of snake bite in South Asia
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MR/P024696/1
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Kim Graham
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Cardiff University
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Developing low-cost cognitive tools for dementia assessment in low-to-middle income countries (LMICs)
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MR/P024718/1
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Helen Elsey
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University of Leeds
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Surveys for Urban Equity: getting, and using, the data needed to respond to neglected non-communicable diseases in urban areas in LMICs
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MR/P025080/1
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Zhengming Chen
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University of Oxford
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Assessing health risks associated with exposure to household and ambient air pollution in rural and urban China
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MR/P025102/1
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Gene Feder
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University of Bristol
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Improving the primary health care response to violence against women in low and middle income countries
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MR/P025153/1
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Michelle Holdsworth
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University of Sheffield
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Dietary transitions in African cities: leveraging evidence for interventions and policy to prevent diet-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
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MR/P025188/1
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Sarah Hawkes
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University College London
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Analysing the policy and governance environment for NCD control, and identifying potential policy options.
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MR/P025250/1
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Nigel Unwin
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University of Cambridge
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Developing theory and methods for evaluating the impact of community food initiatives on NCD risk, social and economic wellbeing and the environment.
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MR/P025420/1
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Richard Sullivan
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King's College London
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Comparison of traditional vs. virtual simulation-enhanced training for scaling the cervical cancer surgery workforce in Zambia
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MR/P025463/1
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Bernard Keavney
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The University of Manchester
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A North-South Partnership in Congenital Heart Disease (CHD)
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MR/P02548X/1
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Melanie Davies
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University of Leicester
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EXTending availability of self-management structured EducatioN programmes for people with type 2 Diabetes in low-to-middle income countries (EXTEND)
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£5 million, five awards
With co-funding from BBSRC, the aim was to support a small number of multidisciplinary networks, foster collaboration, facilitate wider cross-disciplinary integrative participation (including biological, medical, engineering and physical sciences, environmental and social science research (where appropriate)) and build capability which together contributed to and underpinned the development of novel approaches in vaccines R&D.
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MR/R005850/1
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Helen McShane
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University of Oxford
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VAccine deveLopment for complex Intracellular neglecteD pAThogEns (VALIDATE)
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MR/R005958/1
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Tim Connelley
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University of Edinburgh
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International Veterinary Vaccinology Network
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MR/R005974/1
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Calman MacLennan
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University of Birmingham
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BactiVac
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MR/R005982/1
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Peter Openshaw
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Imperial College London
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Human infection challenge vaccine (HIC-vac) network
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MR/R005990/1
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Beate Kampmann
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Imperial College London
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IMPRINT: IMmunising PRegnant women and INfants neTwork
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£2 million, 14 awards
The aim of this activity was to build interdisciplinary research capability and to support research innovation across the MRC and AHRC communities, building and strengthening UK and international research collaboration and partnerships for global public health benefit.
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MR/R024448/1
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Cindy M Gray
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University of Glasgow
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Culture and bodies: an interdisciplinary approach to non-communicable disease prevention in Malawi and Tanzania
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MR/R024278/1
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Marie Claire Van Hout
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Liverpool John Moores University
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Promoting sexual health and accessible HIV Prevention, Treatment, Care and Support services for women prisoners in Zimbabwe and Malawi.
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MR/R024286/1
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Jenevieve Mannell
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University College London
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Exploring Narrative Storytelling as Mental Health Support for Women Experiencing Gender-based Violence in High Prevalence Settings
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MR/R024324/1
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Cornelia Guell
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University of Exeter
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Historical and epidemiological transitions in urban Caribbean foodscapes: understanding the past to enhance future healthy eating
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MR/R024405/1
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DK Arvind
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University of Edinburgh
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Public Health Initiative on LMIC Air Pollution (PHILAP)
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MR/R024480/1
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Nervo Xavier Verdezoto Dias
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University of Leicester
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Healthy Crossroads in Pregnancy Care (HCPC) - A Scoping and Participatory Design Study of the Potential for ICTs to Improve Maternal Health in India
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MR/R024502/1
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Shane Declan Doyle
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University of Leeds
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Maternal Mortality in East Africa
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MR/R024510/1
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Andrew Shennan
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King's College London
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The HAPPEE Partnership Project (Humanities and Arts in Preventing Pre-eclampsia complications through community Engagement and Education)
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MR/R024553/1
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Evelyn Lynne Lohfeld-Uzunoz
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Queen's University of Belfast
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Documenting how the arts and storytelling can save lives: The Viet Nam Breast Cancer project
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MR/R024596/1
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Alan Robert Smyth
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University of Nottingham
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Women's empowerment and child health: exploring the impact of Rojiroti Microfinance in poor communities in Bihar, Northern India
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MR/R024618/1
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Lauren Marion Stewart
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Goldsmiths College
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Developing a Community Singing-Based Intervention for Perinatal Mental Health in The Gambia
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MR/R024693/1
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Merlin Willcox
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University of Southampton
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Family Planning: Fact or Fiction?
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MR/R024723/1
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Sally Haw
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University of Stirling
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Right to Health in Prison
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MR/R024731/1
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Edward Duncan
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University of Stirling
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The RTrT Partnership: Reducing Traffic-related TraumA - A community-based prevention and first-response programme intervention for Malawi and beyond.
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£2 million, 10 awards
The purpose of this call was to provide institutional “pump-priming” funds that would lay the grounds for future large scale, multidisciplinary, cross-country global mental health research bids to address issues of primary relevance to LMIC.
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MR/R019541/1
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Alison Murray
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University of Aberdeen
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Early-life origins of brain resilience to mental illness and cognitive impairment across the life-course
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MR/R018448/1
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Athula Sumathipala
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Keele University
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Establishing a child and adolescent twin register for research and capacity building on the aetiology of mental illness in Sri Lanka and other LMIC
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MR/R018529/1
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Mark Johnson
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Birkbeck College
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MICA: BRAINTOOLS Phase 1: Optimising neurodevelopmental outcomes for global health
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MR/R018677/1
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Glyn Lewis
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University College London
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Community violence and adolescent mental health in Brazil
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MR/R01910X/1
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Andrew McIntosh
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University of Edinburgh
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A Network for Studying Psychological Resilience in Low and Middle-Income Countries (NESP)
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MR/R019460/1
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Helen Fisher
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King's College London
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Identifying Depression Early in Adolescence (IDEA) King's-Brazil-Nepal-Nigeria network
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MR/R019606/1
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Charles Richard Newton
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University of Oxford
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The influence of Executive Function on Mental Health in vulnerable adolescents: a multi-site low and middle income country approach
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MR/R019622/1
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Marcus Munafo
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University of Bristol
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Confidence in Global Mental Health Research
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MR/R019797/1
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Pui-Ying Iroh Tam
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Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
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Neurodevelopmental disorders in LMIC settings - creation of a network and analysis of diagnostic abilities of tools to identify children early.
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MR/R019991/1
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Jonathan Burns
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University of Exeter
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GCRF: Trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences Springboard (TrACES)
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£2 million, 11 awards
The purpose of this call was to provide institutional “pump-priming” funds to lay the grounds for future large scale, multidisciplinary, cross-country global nutrition and health research bids addressing issues of primary relevance to LMIC.
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MR/R018545/1
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Caroline Fall
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MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit
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Collaborative network for adolescent nutrition and health in sub-Saharan Africa and India
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MR/R019118/1
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John McLaughlin
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The University of Manchester
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ManGO: Manchester Global Omics Initiative for Nutritional Health
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MR/R019177/1
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Sophie Moore
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King's College London
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Creating an open access knowledge hub of nutritional biomarkers for use in global health settings
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MR/R019258/1
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Gary Frost
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Imperial College London
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The Role of Nutrients, Gut Dysfunction and the Gut Microbiome in Determining Health Outcomes in Undernutrition
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MR/R019428/1
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Jason Gill
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University of Glasgow
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Development of nutritional strategies for diabetes prevention in Malawian adults at high diabetes risk
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MR/R019436/1
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Andrew Prendergast
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Queen Mary University of London
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Interdisciplinary interventions for stunting and wasting in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Pakistan
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MR/R019576/1
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Paul Finglas
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Quadram Institute Bioscience
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Capacity building in dietary monitoring and public health nutrition in the Eastern Mediterranean Region Countries
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MR/R019657/1
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Paula Griffiths
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Loughborough University
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UK-Africa network to improve the nutrition of infants and young children living in poverty (NINO LIP) in urbanising sub-Saharan African countries
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MR/R019789/1
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Stephen Allen
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Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
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Improving the survival, growth and developmental of low birth weight newborns through better nutrition
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MR/R020183/1
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Andrew Prentice
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MRC Unit, The Gambia
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Creating a West African BioResource for Nutritional Genetics and Epigenetics
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MR/R020221/1
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Angus Hunter
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University of Stirling
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Protein deficiency, sarcopenia and cardiometabolic risk in older urban black Cape Town populations: feasibility studies
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Development awards
£796,000, 10 awards
Consortia awards
£12 million, four awards
This call, which the MRC administered on behalf of the partnership, had two stages, an obligatory developmental phase to provide seed funding followed by a consortia phase.
The call aimed to support three to four interdisciplinary research consortia taking a whole systems approach to identify the burden and primary drivers of AMR and specifically antibacterial resistance (ABR) in low and middle income countries (LMIC).
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MR/R014876/1
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Alistair Boxall
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University of York
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DRIVERS OF HUMAN EXPOSURE TO ANTIBACTERIAL RESISTANCE IN THE SRI LANKAN ENVIRONMENT
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MR/R014914/1
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Richard Sullivan
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King's College London
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"Iraqibacter": Exploring the Links Between War and Antimicrobial Resistance
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MR/R014922/1
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Matthew Beardsall Avison
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University of Bristol
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One Health Drivers of Antibacterial Resistance in Thailand
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MR/R015031/1
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Mathew Holden
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University of St Andrews
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Holistic Approach Towards Unravelling Antibiotic Resistance in East Africa
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MR/R015058/1
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Christopher Quince
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University of Warwick
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Novel inter-disciplinary approaches for identifying and tackling the spread of AntiMicrobial Resistance through Environmental pathways in PAKistan
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MR/R015066/1
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Ruth Nicolet Zadoks
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University of Glasgow
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Supporting the National Action Plan on AMR in Tanzania (SNAP-AMR)
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MR/R015074/1
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Nicholas Alexander Feasey
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Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
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How do human and bacterial behaviour interact in urban and rural African environments to facilitate the stable acquisition of antimicrobial resistance
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MR/R015090/1
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Eric Maurice Fevre
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University of Liverpool
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Partnership for a cross-disciplinary approach to the ecology of antimicrobial drug resistance in Kenya
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MR/R015104/1
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Javier Guitian
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Royal Veterinary College
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Towards controlling antimicrobial resistance in global aquatic animal food systems by enhancing collective resilience (AMFORA)
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MR/R015147/1
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John Walley
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University of Leeds
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Containing antimicrobial resistance in rural Cambodia: a one-health multi-disciplinary intervention to improve village healthcare and farming practice
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MR/S004815/1
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Ruth Nicolet Zadoks
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University of Glasgow
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Supporting the National Action Plan for Antimicrobial Resistance (SNAP-AMR) in Tanzania
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MR/S004769/1
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Matthew Beardsall Avison
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University of Bristol
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One Health Drivers of Antibacterial Resistance in Thailand
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MR/S004785/1
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Matthew Holden
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University of St Andrews
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Holistic Approach To Unravel Antibacterial resistance in East Africa (HATUA)
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MR/S004793/1
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Nicholas Alexander Feasey
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Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
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Drivers of Resistance in Uganda and Malawi: The DRUM Consortium
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£4 million, three awards
To complement the wide range of research supported by the MRC, including through the Cross-Council AMR Initiative, and build on the UK’s excellent discovery bacteriology research. Supported multidisciplinary networks/collaborations to develop innovative approaches to accelerate the antimicrobial pipeline, with a focus on LMIC.
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MR/S00467X/1
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Giancarlo Augusto Biagini
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Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
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MICA: New combination therapy against MDR TB targeting the respiratory chain
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MR/S004394/1
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Jeremy Stuart Brown
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University College London
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Adjunct antibody therapy for severe antibiotic-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections
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MR/S004688/1
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Peter Monk
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University of Sheffield
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Adhesion to host cell membrane microdomains in cornea as an antimicrobial target to prevent corneal ulceration
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£1.9 million, 11 awards
The purpose of this call was to provide “pump-priming” funds to undertake projects to generate preliminary data and establish, expand and consolidate UK-LMIC partnerships.
Applications had to be led by principal investigators based in UK institutions, with at least one LMIC-based researcher named as co-investigator.
Successful partnerships would define research questions in a field or interrelated fields, assess the viability of proposed approaches relevant to the local socioeconomic and cultural context, gather preliminary findings, and develop and test the feasibility of sustainable UK-LMIC research partnerships.
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MR/S014268/1
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Elinor Sawyer
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King's College London
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Molecular Genetics of Lobular Breast Cancer in a South African cohort and effect of HIV infection.
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MR/S014527/1
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Ewen M Harrison
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University of Edinburgh
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Feasibility of a cluster randomised trial of a nutritional intervention to improve outcomes after cancer surgery in low-income countries
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MR/S013865/1
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Sarah Barman
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Kingston University
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Classification of oral lesions using deep learning for early detection of oral cancer
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MR/S01411X/1
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Robert Michael Ewing
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University of Southampton
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Towards new therapeutic strategies: Zika-driven oncolysis of brain tumor cells
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MR/S014349/1
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Michael Donnelly
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Queen's University of Belfast
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A study of the implementation of population-based bowel cancer screening in Malaysia
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MR/S014438/1
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Arnie David Purushotham
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King's College London
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A pilot study to develop an efficacious oral cancer screening strategy for India
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MR/S014535/1
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Matthew Allsop
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University of Leeds
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Understanding data and information needs for palliative cancer care to target mobile phone-based intervention development in Uganda and Zimbabwe
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MR/S014551/1
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Ling Yang
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University of Oxford
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Developing a multiplex serology panel to detect and quantify Epstein-Barr virus infection
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MR/S01473X/1
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David James Adams
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Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
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Identifying the drivers and vulnerabilities of acral lentiginous melanoma through the study of PDX models from Latin American patients
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MR/S014985/1
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Julian Peto
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London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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Preventing cervical cancer in older Vietnamese women
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MR/S015027/1
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Jonine Figueroa
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University of Edinburgh
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Improving earlier diagnosis and precision medicine for reduced mortality of breast cancer in Kenya
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