Research Support (2009 – present)
(Default ordered by value).
| Research Grant | Project Title | Start Date | Duration | Value | Grant Holders |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MRC Strategic Grant: Population and Systems Medicine Board | Persistent Fatigue Induced by Interferon-alpha: A New Immunological Model for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome | 2012-03-01 | 36 months | £3,700,000 | Carmine M. Pariante (PI), Trudie Chalder, Richard Dobson, Matthew Hotopf, Anthony Cleare, Valeria Mondelli |
| NIHR – National Institute For Health Research | Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health – EPI Cluster – Bioinformatics and Statistics | 2012 | 60 months | £1,456,812 | Richard Dobson (PI) |
| Guys & SLaM Charity Capital Award | 2014 | £1,200,000 | Richard Dobson (PI) | ||
| EU Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) | European Medical Information Framework (EMIF) | 2012-07 | 2012-2017 | £1,200,000 | Andy Simmons, Simon Lovestone (PI), Richard Dobson, Angela Hodges |
| IMI2 | Platform development for IMI2 RADAR-CNS | 2015 | 60 months | €1,200,000 | Richard Dobson (PI), Amos Folarin |
| MRC Neurosciences and Mental Health | Low coverage sequencing for the detection and analysis of genomic structural variants in schizophrenia | 2011-10-01 | 36 months | £1,000,000 | John Powell (PI), Richard Dobson, Elvira Bramon, Robin Murray |
| NIHR BRU-D Capital Award | For High Performance Computing expansion | 2012 | 60 months | £900,000 | |
| Alzheimer’s Research Trust (ART) major award reference PG-10-003 | Combinatorial biomarkers for dementia prodromes, prediction, pathology and progression | 2010-09-01 | 60 months | £775,000 | Prof Simon Lovestone (PI), Dr Malcolm Ward, Dr Andrew Weston, Prof Richard Brown, Dr Richard Dobson, Dr Angela Hodges, Prof Graham Lord, Dr Andy Simmons |
| MRC Research Project | Gene regulatory variation in the developing human brain and its role in neuropsychiatric disorders | 2014-03-03 | 36 months | £497,359 | Nick Bray (PI), Richard Dobson, Cathryn Lewis, Leo Schalkwyk |
| EU H2020 Big data and Open Data Innovation and take-up | Khresmoi Multilingual Medical Text Analysis, Search and Machine Translation Connected in a Thriving Data-Value Chain (KConnect) | 2015-01-01 | 30 months | £300,000 | Richard Dobson (Joint PI), Rob Stewart |
| Lilly Research Awards Programme (LRAP) | An integrated systems view of Alzheimer’s disease in patients harboring rare risk variants in TREM2 | 2014-10-01 | 24 months | £265,000 | R Dobson (PI), S Newhouse, A Hodges, S Kiddle |
| MRC Fellowship | Early identification of Alzheimer’s Disease: dynamic biomarkers for enrichment of clinical trials | 2014-04-01 | 3 years | £253,519 | Kiddle, S. (PI), Dobson, R., Mill, J. |
| Medical Research Council: Grant Ref: MC_PC_14089 | UK Infrastructure for Large-scale Clinical Genomics Research | 2014-10-01 | 18 months | £251,000 | Amos Folarin, Stephen Newhouse, Richard Dobson |
| EC – European Commission | DESIRE – Development and Epilepsy – Strategies for Innovative Research to improve diagnosis, prevention and treatment in children with difficult to treat Epilepsy | 2013-10-01 | 60 months | £244,517 | D Pal (PI), R Dobson |
| Alzheimer’s Society Fellowship | Understanding how genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic variation is associated with metabolic changes in Alzheimer’s Disease | 2012-09-01 | 36 months | £200,000 | Petra Proitsi (PI), Richard Dobson, John Powell |
| MNDA | Development of a high throughput gene, environment and epigenetics database and analysis system for international ALS research | 2014-10-01 | 24 months | £195,000 | Richard Dobson (Joint PI), Ammar al Chalabi |
| MRC | Immuno-psychiatry: a consortium to test the opportunity for immunotherapeutics in psychiatry | 2014-05-01 | 24 months | £174,000 | Pariante, C. (PI), Cattaneo, A., Dobson, R., Newhouse, S., Stewart, R., Zunszain, P. |
| Janssen Pharmaceuticals PhD Studentship | Identification of novel biomarkers for disease progression in Alzheimer’s disease | 2013 | 48 months | £131,000 | Richard Dobson (joint PI), Simon Lovestone. |
| GE | Identify blood based biomarkers for PET Amyloid change in MCI | TBC | 12 months | £130,000 | Richard Dobson (PI), Abdul Hye |
| Joint Clinical and Translational Science Initiative (CTSI) at the University of California San Francisco & NIHR BRC-MH | NIHR Biomedical Research Centre Infrastructure Award for USCF-KHP Data sharing programme | 2012-02-13 | 12 months | £120,000 | Richard Dobson (Joint PI), Andy Simmons (Joint PI), Simon Lovestone |
| KHP Challenge Fund | Preventing relapse using remote monitoring of sleep disturbance in schizophrenia | 2015-02-01 | 12 months | £100,000 | James MacCabe (PI), Richard Dobson, Nick Meyer, Amos Folarin, Philip McGuire |
| BBSRC Case Studentship with Illumina Inc | Systems-biology based approaches for the identification of genes controlling complex phenotypic traits | 2013 | 48 months | £90,000 | Richard Dobson (PI), Cathryn Lewis |
| Alzheimer’s Society PhD Studentship | Creating an early diagnostic blood test for Alzheimer’s | 2013 | 36 months | £80,000 | Richard Dobson (PI), Steven Kiddle |
| Joint NIHR Biomedical Research Centre Strategic Project Award | Genetic Causes of Neurodevelopmental Delay in Children: Translation and interpretation of novel pathogenic copy number variants and novel rare exonic mutations into clinical genetic practice | 2010-01-01 | 12 months | £75,000 | Dr Sarah Curran (PI), Richard Dobson, Deb Pal, Patrick Bolton, Paul Gringras, Caroline Ogilvie, David Collier, Simon Holden |
| KBI Studentship | Integrated approaches to risk prediction in first-episode psychosis | 2014-10-01 | 36 months | £75,000 | Richard Dobson (PI), Robin Muray, Stephen Newhouse |
| Kings Health Partners | EPI-INFO: Developing an epilepsy patient database at King’s Health Partners for audit, service commissioning & development, and research | 2012-Q3 | 12 months | £50,000 | ark Richardson (PI), Richard Dobson, Deb Pal, Matthew Broadbent |
| BRC EPI/Nucleus award | Investigating Adverse Effects of Psychiatric Drugs through Data-Mining of Electronic Health Records and Integration of Clinical and Genomic Data | 2013-Q3 | 12 months | £50,000 | Richard Dobson (PI), Rob Stewart, Caroline Johnston |
| Rosetrees Trust | A blood test for Alzheimer’s disease (Computational approaches to identify Alzheimer’s disease progression biomarkers and evaluate their performance) | 2011-01-01 | 24 months | £49,500 | Angela Hodges, Simon Lovestone (PI), Richard Dobson |
| BRC EMCT Theme | Genome-wide expression change over the course of exposure-based psychological therapy | 2014-01-01 | 3 months | £24,000 | Prof Thalia Eley (PI), Dr Richard Dobson, Dr Gerome Breen, Dr Chloe Wong, Dr Kathryn Lester |