Awards and Resarch Grants

November 2025 AIBIO-UK (BBSRC). FlexiFund to run the "GirlsWhoML: Building Inclusive AI in the Biosciences Community" at Teesside University. My role: PI

May 2025 - March 2026 AIBIO-UK (BBSRC). A multimodal AI-driven framework for Bioscientists: from bulk to single-cell and spatial data. My role: PI.

May 2025-Sept 2027 Innovate UK. Applied AI for Real-Time Decision Support in IoT-Enabled Systems (Vianet). My role: PI. 

January 2025 The AI for Women's Health group led by Bianca Schor, Kristin Caolo, Annalisa Occhipinti and Emma Karoune has been recognised as 2025 AI Visionaries. This honour, bestowed by Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS) and the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC), celebrates their outstanding contributions to women's health and gender equity through artificial intelligence. Find out more here: https://healthinnovation-kss.com/2025-ai-visionaries-announced-spotlight-on-womens-health-innovation/ 

2025-2028 Horizon Europe "Using metabolic modelling for targeting aquatic extremophiles for sourcing novel enzymes, drugs, metabolites and chemicals". My role: Co-I.

January 2025 EPSRC funding through the NortHFutures Hub to host an intern as part of the Black Internship Program in Summer 2025. My role: PI.

2024-2027 BBSRC "Joint data- and model-driven attention-based integration of imaging, proteomics, and metabolic modelling". My role: Co-I. 

February 2024 Grant Award - UK Research and Innovation’s Participatory Research Fund - "Enhancing the applicability of AI models for breast cancer detection in the clinical settings". My role: PI

September 2023 Grant Award – EPSRC – “From single-cell transcriptomic to single-cell fluxomic: characterising metabolic dysregulations for breast cancer subtype classification”. EPSCR International Collaboration Grants. My role: PI.

August 2023 Grant Award – EPSRC – “Integrating infrared spectroscopy and digital pathology: an explainable AI multi-modal framework for breast cancer diagnosis”. ClirPATH-AI Network. My role: PI.

May 2023 Grant Award – British Society of Breast Radiology – “Multimodal AI to predict patient-specific breast cancer treatment response”, My role: PI.

April 2023 Grant Award – Innovate UK – An AI-driven Automated Surveying Capability to improve peatland condition monitoring and assessment, My role: PI.

March 2023 Grant Award – BBSRC “Understanding the role of metal ions in E. coli across temperature and PH conditions to optimise the manufacturing of the next generation of bioproducts“, Metals in Biology in collaboration with Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies. My role: PI.

January 2023 Grant Award – BBSRC “Merging Metabolic Modelling and Machine Learning to optimise biofuel production in Methanogenic Archaea”, The Carbon Recycling Network. My role: PI.

December 2022 Grant Award – BBSRC “An AI model to predict biofilm formation and improve the production cycle at Quorn Foods” National Biofilm Innovation Center. My role: PI.

September 2022 Grant Award – Innovate UK – Intelligent Digital Twin for Transport Infrastructure Management, My role: Academic Supervisor.

June 2022 Grant Award A deep learning framework to integrate MRI scans and clinical data for breast cancer prediction, Funded by Teesside University. My role: PI.

May 2022 Outstanding Student Support Service – Team Teesside, Teesside University.

March 2021 Best Talk Award. Scientific and Technological Advances in Healthcare Crises Event, University of Cambridge.

Jan 2021 Student as Researcher Scheme Funding – Project Leader “Machine Learning applications for personalised oncology”. Funded by Teesside University.

Sept 2020 Grant Award - Application of computational models of breast cancer for early-detection personalised tests. Earlier.org https://earlier.org/ Featured in AI Business