Grants
Mathematical Biology grants
The Mathematical Biology and Healthcare Group has received a number of research grants from funding bodies over the years.
Current and recent grants
Current and recent grants
- Professor Sara Jabbari is the Mathematics Lead on the team led by Professor Jess Blair, which has been awarded £4,654,854 for the BBSRC funded project Understanding the rules of impermeability in Gram negative bacteria, 2026-2031.
- Dr Meurig Gallagher was the UoB PI for the international team awarded $4,962,546 for the Gates Foundation funded project Determining sperm in vitro-assay thresholds for male infertility, 2024-2027.
- Dr Meurig Gallagher was Mechanistic Lead for the team awarded £1,801,805.94 for the NIHR-funded Clinical Trial UNiTY: The UNexplained InfertiliTY Treatment Trial, 2023-2028
- Professor Fabian Spill was awarded £594,150 for the UKRI-funded project Systems-Mechanobiology of Health & Disease, 2026-2029.
- Dr Eder Zavala was awarded £331,730 for the MRC-funded project Characterising the feedback control mechanisms of the glucocorticoid receptor within the adrenal steroidogenic regulatory network. It lasted from 2017 to 2021.
- Dr Fabian Spill was awarded £1,066,071 for the BBSRC-funded project Systems-Mechanobiology of Endothelial Gap Dynamics. It lasts from February 2021 until January 2025.
- Dr Fabian Spill was awarded £382,134 for the MRC-funded project Systems-Mechanobiology of Health and Disease. It lasts from May 2021 until June 2024.
- Professor Tom Montenegro-Johnson was awarded £996,799 for the Leverhulme Trust-funded project Shape-Transforming Active Microfluidics. It lasts from December 2020 until November 2025.
- Dr Paco Fernandez-Trillo and Dr Sara Jabbari were awarded £179,747 for the Leverhulme Trust-funded project EPiC Engineering microbial physiology through Polymer and Computational Sciences. It lasts from June 2020 until; December 2023.
- Dr Sara Jabbari and Professor David Smith have a project with Proctor and Gamble entitled Multi-Input Multi-Output Model-Based Adaptive Control with Non-Linear Models, which funds a PhD studentship. It lasts from September 2019 until September 2025.
Archive
Archive
- Professor Tom Montenegro-Johnson was awarded £229,916 for the EPSRC-funded project Artificial Transforming Swimmers for Precision Microfluidics Tasks. It lasted from May 2018 until May 2020.
- Professor Tom Montenegro-Johnson was the co-ordinator of the €2,994,965 ERC-funded project Mixed Haptic Feedback for Mid-Air Interactions in Virtual and Augmented Realities. It lasted from October 2018 until March 2022.
- Dr Sara Jabbari was part of the team that was awarded £402,443 for the MRC-funded project Dynamics of Antimicrobial Resistance in the Urban water cycle in Europe. It lasted from march 2017 until September 2020.
- Professor David Smith was awarded £958,032 for the EPSRC-funded project Rapid sperm capture. It lasted from June 2016 until June 2022.
- Dr Sara Jabbari was awarded £405,201 for the BBSRC-funded project Maths-AIM: A Mathematical and experimental approach for the rational assessment of bacterial Adhesion Inhibitor Materials in vivo. It lasted from September 2015 until November 2018.
- Professor Rosemary Dyson was awarded £97,682 for the EPSRC-funded project Multiscale modelling of three-dimensional plant root growth. It lasted from November 2014 until November 2016.
- Professor David Smith was awarded £97,225 for the EPSRC-funded project Modelling the Fluid Mechanics of Propulsion through a Complex Microenvironment. It lasted from January 2013 until March 2014.
- Professor Rosemary Dyson was part of the team awarded £588,371 for the BBSRC-funded project Root SAT-NAV: Uncovering the Molecular Mechanisms Guiding Root Angle in Soil. It lasted from September 2012 until October 2015.
- Dr Sara Jabbari was awarded £385,071 for the MRC-funded project A systems biology approach to understanding and combating Clostridium difficile infection. It lasted from June 2011 until May 2014.
- Professor David Smith was awarded £318,437 for the MRC-funded project Fluid Mechanics and the Human Male Gamete - Novel Physiological Modelling of Sperm Motility and Female Tract Interaction. It lasted from July 2006 until January 2010.