Grants


Total Funding obtained: ~ £8.9 million

  1. GCRF Fund: TRANSFORMWASTE: Transforming liquid waste from rice industries to green bioplastics: £7000

  2. 3D BIONET (MRC)- A Natural and Sustainable Biomaterial-Based 3D Model of Healthy Cardiac Tissue November 2019-October 2020: Total Budget: £45,750 (In collaboration with Imperial College and University of Oxford)

  3. EPSRC- Mussel Inspired Chemistry and bacterially synthesised polymers for Oral Mucosal Adhesion and Drug Delivery May 2019-Jan 2020: Total Budget: £99,240 (In collaboration with UCL)

  4. EU H2020 Bio-based Industries Project: Eco-sustainable multifunctional biobased coatings with enhanced performance and end of life options, ECOAT May 2019- April 2021-ECOAT: Total Budget: ~ €4.613.778,25; my share: €299,712

  5. ICURe GRANT, Innovate UK, ICURe Innovation to Commercialisation; biobased Plastics for Medical Applications, £34,905. Role in the project: PI

  6. EPSRC CYCLOPS HEALTHCARE NETWORK Grant (EP/N026985/1), Project entitled “Closed loop infection control using biocompatible wound dressings”, £59,385.97; role in the project: PI; Collaborators: University of Strathclyde, University of Leeds

  7. EU H2020, BIO-BASED INDUSTRIES: High performance functional bio-based polymers for skin-contact products in biomedical, cosmetic and personal care industry June 2017-May 2020-POLY(BIO-SKIN): Total Budget: ~ 4 million; my share: €337,068.75; Role in the project: Work package leader

  8. Co-PI in FAST HealthCare Network Plus EPSRC Grant, 3D printing of a smart coronary stent prototype using novel bioresorbable polymer blends 2017-2019, PI: Professor Ruth Cameron, University of Cambridge, UK, £ 55,632.80

  9. UKERI grant (with Indian Partner organisation, JNU, Delhi). The molecular mechanism of angiogenesis and neurogenesis in multicellular 3D culture of tumour cells using PHA based in vitro 3D models April 2017-March 2020-Total Budget: £200,000; My share: £100,00; Role in the project: PI

  10. EU H2020, HyMedPoly (ITN/EID Application): Drug-Free Antibacterial Hybrid Biopolymers for Medical Applications Jan 2015-Dec 2018, Total Grant Amount: 3,500,000 Euros; My share: 1,093,152 Euros (£866,094)-This is for an Academic-Industry collaborative PhD multi-institution training network. http://hymedpoly.eu/; role in the project: Scientific Coordinator and PI

  11. EU FP7 NMP: Reinforced Bioresorbable Biomaterials for Therapeutic Drug Eluting Stents (ReBioStent), Jan 2014- Dec 2016, Total Grant: 4.6 million Euros, My share, 548,473.00 Euros (£434,515) http://rebiostent.eu/; role in the project: Scientific Coordinator

  12. EU FP7 NMP: Novel combination of biopolymers and manufacturing technologies for production of a peripheral nerve implant containing an internal aligned channels array (NEURIMP), Jan 2014- Dec 2017, Total Grant: 4.4 million Euros, My share, 504,053 Euros (£396,986) www.neurimp.eu/; role in the project: Work Package Leader

  13. Co-PI in The British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine Centre Grant, 2013-2016 and 2017-2022 PI: Professor Sian Harding, Imperial College London, UK, £2.5 million (2013-2016); £2.5 million (2017-2022)

  14. The British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine Pilot Project Grants: (i) In vivo assessment of PHA based cardiac patches- Prof. Sian Harding and Prof. Ipsita Roy: £4,916.00; (ii) Acellular scaffolds to deliver paracrine factors for myocardial repair-Prof. Carolyn Carr and Prof. Ipsita Roy: £5,597.50; (iii) Development of a scaffold enabling epicardial delivery of therapeutic exosomes- Prof. Costanza Emanueli and Prof. Ipsita Roy: £4704.00

  15. PI for Internship Funding from Saudi Aramco (one of the largest oil companies), 2013-2015, £25,000

  16. The EUMINAfab grant for visiting and carrying out research in TEKNIKER Technology Centre, Spain, 2012. EUMINAfab is a European Research Infrastructure offering open access to state of the art of multimaterial micro and nanotechnologies repertoire, ~ £2000

  17. European Social Fund within the Kracow University of Technology development program-top quality teaching for the prospective Polish engineers; University of the 21st century. One of the main goals of the project was to increase the competence of didactic staff by organising training in the European leading Centres. Funded the visit of Dr. Katarzyna Gorazda from Kracow University of Technology, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Kracow, Poland from May 2012-August 2012, £ 4000

  18. A PARK fund for a further step forward towards the commercialisation of a unique drug delivery technology for wet macular degeneration from WESTFOCUS, 2010, London, UK, £50,068

  19. A Bacillus based biorefinery for production of biodegradable biopolymers using agricultural residue, 2009, a research development fund, supported by the by University of Westminster, UK, £15,000

  20. A PARK fund for patent application from WESTFOCUS, London, UK, 2009 £15,000

  21. Eluting biodegradable ocular lens, 2009 – A Commercial Appraisal Fund from WESTFOCUS, London, UK, £1500

  22. Polyhydroxyalkanoate microsphere-based intraocular drug delivery for wet macular degeneration, 2008, supported by WESTMARC, University of Westminster, UK, £2000

  23. The Production and Characterisation of MCL-Polyhydroxyalkanoates for Biomedical Applications, 2007, supported by the University of Westminster, UK, £15,000

  24. “QUORUM” with Prof. T. Keshavarz (PI) supported by EC/ FP6: Proposal no. 032811, 2006-2009, Title: Discovering Quorum Sensing in industrially useful Fungi, a novel approach at molecular level for scaling-up in white biotech. £250,000

  25. Novel PHA/Bioglassâ composites for soft-tissue and hard-tissue engineering scaffolds, 2004-2006, supported by the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council, UK (EPSRC), £110,000

  26. “SOPHIED” with Prof. T. Keshavarz (PI) supported by EC/FP6: Proposal no. 505899-2, 2004-2008, Title: Novel sustainable bioprocesses for the European colour industries. £299,200

  27. Microbial production of Polyhydroxyalkanoates, 2000-2002, New lecturer’s Grant supported by the University of Westminster, UK, £30,000

  28. Polyhydroxyalkanoate biosynthesis in Strepomyces sp., 1997-1998, University Exploratory Grant supported by DuPont, Delaware, USA, £2000