Research projects associated with the Sleep Network

Current projects

Developing peripheral blood biomarkers of glymphatic clearance

01/04/2024- 30/06/2026

Funded by Takeda Pharmaceuticals International INC

  • Principle Investigator: Professor Clare Anderson
  • Co-Investigator: Dr. Charmaine Diep
  • PhD Student: Ruby Simkin-Carr
  • Researchers: Ellie Kerrod

Early detection of alzheimer's disease through mathematical predictive modelling - an interdisciplinary approach to accelerate the pathway to imapct

25/11/2024- 30/09/2025

Funded by EPSRC IAA

  • Principle Investigator: Professor Clare Anderson
  • Co-Investigators: Dr. Sophie Mason, Professor John Terry, Professor Sharon Naismith, Dr. Tom Hayton

Predicting state and trait vulnerability to sleep loss using functional brain networks

01/06/2025- 31/05/2027

Funded by the ESRC

  • Principle Investigator: Professor Clare Anderson
  • Co-Investigators: Wessel Woldman
  • Researchers: Professor Andrew Bagshaw

Mild traumatic brain injury biomarkers study, a prospective cohort biomarker study of military and civilan participants with mTBI: mTBI-Predict

30/09/2023- 29/09/2028

Funded by the US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity

  • Principle Investigator: Lieutenant Colonel James Mitchell
  • Co-Investigators: Professor Ole Jensen, Dr. Andreas Yiangou, Dr. Jamie Pringle, Dr. Davinia Fernandez-Espejo, Professor Katie Morris, Dr. Karen Mullinger, Professor Sam Lucas, Professor Alice Sitch, Professor Jon Deeks, Professor Ali Mazaheri, Professor Hamid Dehghani, Ryan Ottridge, Dr. Jack Rogers, Dr. Raymond Reynolds, Professor Rachel Upthegrove, Professor John Terry, Assistant Professor Hyojin Park, Dr. Mark Thaller, Associate professor Lisa Hill, Dr. Ned Jenkinson, Professor David Smith, Professor Andrew Bagshaw
  • Researchers: Professor Clare Anderson, Dr. Sarah Berhane, Professor Alex Sinclair