- Grants since 2016
- 53
- Awarded, last 5 years (where amounts are published)
- £8.1M
- Funded works, last 5 years
- 761
- Funded works, all time
- 2 529
Grants
2026 · grant · PKD grant round awards
From variant to patient: translating national-scale PKD genomics into personalised diagnosis and prognosis in the NHS Genomic Medicine PhD Studentship (non clinical)
Christopher Pieri · University College London
2026 · grant · Translation Accelerator Kidney Award Scheme (TAKA)
Development of an in vitro assay for prediction of kidney uptake and retention liability of radiopharmaceutical agents in drug discovery.
Wen Ding · University of Bristol
2026 · grant · Main Hybrid grant round awards
Preventing harm from BK virus infections in the renal transplant community Training fellowship (clinical):
Simon Baker · University of York
2026 · grant · Main Hybrid grant round awards
Kidney Research UK award (Main Hybrid grant round awards)
Kathleen Duffin · University of Edinburgh
2026 · grant · Translation Accelerator Kidney Award Scheme (TAKA)
KEPsoft-UK: Developing New and Improved Algorithms for the UK Living Kidney Sharing Scheme
David Manlove · University of Glasgow
2026 · grant · Main Hybrid grant round awards
Investigating the role of immune cell biomechanics in chronic kidney disease
Maria Prendecki · Imperial College London
2026 · grant · Professor Michael Nicholson Awards
Understanding how high blood sugars and inflammation cause early failure of kidney-pancreas transplants, and identifying ways to help them last longer.
Rory Brown · University of Manchester
2026 · grant · PKD grant round awards
Investigating how parental diet influences the severity of polycystic kidney disease
David Long · University College London
2026 · grant · Main Hybrid grant round awards
Kidney Research UK award (Main Hybrid grant round awards)
Aisling Barrett · (dietician), Northumbria University
2026 · grant · Main Hybrid grant round awards
PROTECT-Kidney: why do patients with kidney failure develop cognitive impairment?
Robert Kimmitt · University of Exeter
2026 · grant · Main Hybrid grant round awards
Kidney Research UK award (Main Hybrid grant round awards)
Maarten Taal · University of Nottingham
2026 · grant · Professor Michael Nicholson Awards
Creating a Transplant Kidney-On-A-Chip Model to understand how white blood cells induce rejection. Research projects:
Laura Denby · University of Edinburgh
2026 · grant · Main Hybrid grant round awards
Refining kidney disease diagnosis using spatial transcriptomics
Menna Clatworthy · Wellcome Sanger Institute
2026 · grant · Translation Accelerator Kidney Award Scheme (TAKA)
i-CANnulate: Empowering Self-Cannulation Through Digital Health Innovation to Support Autonomy in Haemodialysis Management.
Glenn Cooper · University of Manchester
2026 · grant · Main Hybrid grant round awards
Defining renal and myocardial cellular dysfunction in ANCA-associated vasculitis using manganese-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging: the MEMRI-Kidney studies
Richard Shemilt · University of Edinburgh
2026 · grant · Main Hybrid grant round awards
Unravelling mechanisms regulating macrophage efferocytosis in kidney cancer Masters in Research (allied health professional):
Ioannis Kourtzelis · University of York
2026 · grant · PKD grant round awards
Evaluating gene therapy for childhood polycystic kidney disease in a 3D human cellular model Driver projects
Jennifer Chandler · University College London
2026 · grant · Professor Michael Nicholson Awards
Comprehensive profiling of HLA antibodies to improve immunological risk stratification in kidney transplantation PhD studentships:
Ho Lim Pak · University of Cambridge
2026 · grant · Translation Accelerator Kidney Award Scheme (TAKA)
PITHIA AI: Improving selection of deceased donor kidneys using artificial intelligence to grade severity of chronic injury on preimplantation renal biopsies
Gavin Pettigrew · University of Cambridge
2026 · grant · Professor Michael Nicholson Awards
Novel enzyme catalysts for transplantation medicine: 'universalizing' kidneys
Florian Hollfelder · University of Cambridge
2026 · grant · Professor Michael Nicholson Awards
KEPsoft-UK: New and Improved Algorithms for the UK Living Kidney Sharing Scheme Start-ups:
David Manlove · University of Glasgow
2026 · grant · Main Hybrid grant round awards
Investigating the role of Apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) on immunity and kidney transplant outcomes PhD studentship:
Amy Needleman · University College London
2026 · grant · Professor Michael Nicholson Awards
A new approach to making vaccines that are cheaper and more effective at controlling dangerous infections in kidney transplant patients
Mathew Reeves · University College London
2026 · grant · Professor Michael Nicholson Awards
Can cell therapies revive ischaemic kidneys? How to Help More Patients Get Transplants
Bettina Wilm · University of Liverpool
2026 · grant · PKD grant round awards
Characterising polycystic liver disease in the UK: Determinants of progressionand variation in care using the UK PLD registry Training fellowship (clinical)
Matthew Gittus · Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
2026 · grant · Main Hybrid grant round awards
Rescuing immune responses to infections and vaccination in immunosuppressed CKD patients
Anne-Catherine Raby · Cardiff University
2026 · grant · Professor Michael Nicholson Awards
Artificial intelligence–guided discovery of lymphatic therapeutic targets in kidney transplantation
Daniyal Jafree · University College London
2026 · grant · Main Hybrid grant round awards
LRG1 as a mechanistic driver and therapeutic target in the transition from acute kidney injury to chronic kidney and cardiovascular disease Senior fellowship:
Neeraj Dhaun · University of Edinburgh
2026 · grant · PKD grant round awards
Repurposing of ROCK inhibitors as treatments for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD)
Colin Johnson · University of Leeds
2026 · grant · Main Hybrid grant round awards
Kidney Research UK award (Main Hybrid grant round awards)
Bryan Conway · University of Edinburgh
2026 · grant · Professor Michael Nicholson Awards
Kynurenine 3-mono-oxygenase (KMO) as therapeutic target in kidney transplantation
Andrew Sutherland · University of Edinburgh
2026 · grant · Main Hybrid grant round awards
Harnessing Big Data in Multiparametric MRI: Advanced Computational Insights into Kidney and Multi-Organ Dysfunction
Susan Francis · University of Nottingham
2026 · grant · Translation Accelerator Kidney Award Scheme (TAKA)
Therapeutic targeting of the cellular oxygen sensing pathway as a novel approach to suppress BK polyomavirus replication in the transplanted kidney.
Peter Wing · University of Oxford
2026 · grant · Main Hybrid grant round awards
Repurposing drugs to treat BK virus in kidney transplantation
Andrew Macdonald · University of Leeds
2026 · grant · Translation Accelerator Kidney Award Scheme (TAKA)
Microfluidic Antibody Affinity Profiling to improve immunological risk stratification in kidney transplantation
Vasilis Kosmoliaptsis · University of Cambridge
2025 · grant · Pharmacist and nurse grant round awards
Kidney Research UK award (Pharmacist and nurse grant round awards)
Heather Roberts (Nurse) · Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
2025 · grant · Hybrid grants round awards
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Melanie Chan · University of Manchester
2025 · grant · Hybrid grants round awards
Arterial stiffness and hypertension in children and young people with chronic kidney disease Fellowship:
Manish Sinha · King's College London
2025 · grant · Paediatric and Rare grants round awards
Inhibiting AMP-activated protein kinase to modulate Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease
David Long · University College London
2025 · grant · Pharmacist and nurse grant round awards
Kidney Research UK award (Pharmacist and nurse grant round awards)
Hidaayo Dahir (Nurse) · University of Birmingham