Below is a list of current and previous grants. This page is currently based on my Glasgow webpage, but will include future (working hard) Hamburg grants.

Active grants:

• Decoding persisting pain in rheumatoid arthritis by exposing the glutamatergic bridge between synovium and brain
  Foundation for Research in Rheumatology 
  2026 - 2029

   

• Trypanosoma cruzi genome structural variability, gene expression control and consequences
  Medical Research Council 
  2024 - 2027

   

• Unravelling mechanisms of stage conversion in malaria parasites
  Wellcome Trust
  2023 - 2028

   

• Comparative analysis of commitment to gametocytogenesis and sex determination in human and rodent-infectious malaria parasites
  Wellcome Trust
  2023 - 2027

Previous grants

• Phenotype-based Screens to Identify Genetic Factors Associated with Gametocyte Development in Plasmodium Falciparum
  National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases 
  2024 - 2025
   
• Exploring scRNA-Seq methods to analyse a bone marrow & spleen biobank in Ghana
  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council 
  2024 - 2024
   
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• Tissue memory: How infections leave an inflammatory imprint that shapes future response
  Tenovus Scotland
  2022 - 2023
   
• Identifying the mechanisms and biomarkers of transition from Psoriasis (PsO) to Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA)
  Foundation for Research in Rheumatology 
  2022 - 2024
   
• Single cell interrogation of the blood-brain barrier in human cerebral malaria: a translational approach
  UK Research and Innovation 
  2022 - 2025
   
• Single cell interrogation of the blood-brain barrier in human cerebral malaria: a translational approach
  UK Research and Innovation 
  2022 - 2025
   
• Understanding vaccine response at the cellular level: the MAVRIC study (Malawi Atlas of Vaccine Response in an Infant Cohort)
  Wellcome Trust
  2021 - 2022
   
• Dual multi-modal single-cell time course to unravel the role of macrophages in malaria tolerance
  Wellcome Trust
  2021 - 2023
   
• Coping with unpredictability: transcriptional variation as an adaptation strategy in Plasmodium falciparum
  La Caixa Foundation
  2020 - 2023
   
• Coping with unpredictability: transcriptional variation as an adaptation strategy in Plasmodium falciparum
  La Caixa Foundation
  2020 - 2024
   
• Dissecting innate immune determinants of severity and resolution in a longitudinal study of COVID-19
  UK Research and Innovation 
  2020 - 2022
   
• Elucidating molecular determinants of trypanosoma cruzi persisters
  Medical Research Council 
  2020 - 2023
   
• MITS for lung pathology and immune response in fatal COVID-19 in Malawi
  Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
  2020 - 2021
   
• The mechanisms by which JAK inhibition fosters disease remission in Psoriatic Arthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis treated with Tofacitinib.
  Pfizer 
  2020 - 2023
   
• Dissecting the role of distinct phenotypic clusters of synovial tissue macrophages in the regulation of joint homeostasis and the resolution of joint inflammation in Rheumatoid Arthritis
  Versus Arthritis
  2020 - 2024
   
• Deciphering developmental commitment in African trypanosomes using single-cell transcriptomics
  Wellcome Trust
  2020 - 2024
   
• Functional models of axo-glial signalling for understanding axonal degeneration in progressive multiple sclerosis
  Multiple Sclerosis Society 
  2020 - 2023