Grants 2015-2020
Grants awarded during the Integrative Cancer Epidemiology Programme funding period 2015-2020, with ICEP members as principal or co-investigators:
Awarded in 2015
- Prof Julian Higgins: Medical Research Council "Assessing risk of bias in non-randomized studies of interventions" (December 2015 - February 2018)
- Dr Paul Brennan: National Institute of Health "Biomarkers of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and risk of two increasing cancers" (January 2015 - August 2019)
Awarded in 2016
- Prof Nic Timpson: Wellcome Trust Investigator Award in Science "What lies behind the causal impact of body mass index (BMI) level and change on human health? Added value from complementary study design and deep metabolomic phenotyping" (September 2016 - August 2019)
- Dr Suzi Gage and Dr Rebecca Richmond: Cancer Research UK "DNA methylation in e-cigarette users versus cigarette smokers and never-smokers" (September 2016 - February 2019)
- Dr Sarah Lewis: World Cancer Research Fund International "Exploitation of molecular and mechanistic data to identify modifiable factors which cause prostate cancer incidence and progression and elucidate their mechanism of action” (March 2016 - March 2019)
Awarded in 2017
- Dr Emma Vincent: Diabetes UK - RD Lawrence Fellowship "The influence of cancer on people with Type 2 diabetes" (September 2017 - August 2022)
- Prof Tom Gaunt: Biogen "Biogen MR-Base collaboration" (August 2017 - August 2020)
- Prof Richard Martin: Cancer Research UK "Evaluating the long-term effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of population-based screening and treatment for prostate cancer: the CAP and ProtecT RCTs" (August 2017 - December 2022)
- Prof John Iredale (Prof Richard Martin leading the Cancer Workstream): National Institute for Health Research "NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre" (April 2017 - March 2022)
- Prof Tom Gaunt and Prof George Davey Smith: GlaxoSmithKline "Development and application of MR-Base" (March 2017 - February 2020)
- Prof Richard Martin: Cancer Research UK "Prostate cancer screening and treatment of localised disease: implications of recent and emerging trial results for practice and policy in the UK and internationally" (January 2017 - March 2017)
Awarded in 2018
- Dr Srikant Ambatipudi: Ramalingaswamy Fellowship, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India (December 2018 - December 2023)
- Dr Rebecca Richmond: de Pass VC Fellowship, University of Bristol "From clustered behaviours to molecular mechanisms in cancer epidemiology" (October 2018 - September 2022)
- Dr Rebecca Richmond: ESRC Understanding Society Biomarker Data Fellowship "Investigating epigenetics changes in shift work" (January 2018 - December 2018)
- Prof Caroline Relton and Prof Nic Timpson: MRC "Creating a West African BioResource for Nutritional Genetics and Epigenetics" (January 2018 - December 2018)
Awarded in 2019
- Dr Justo Lorenzo Bermejo: European Union Horizon 2020 "Establishment and Exploitation of a European-Latin American Research Consortium towards Eradication of Preventable Gallbladder Cancer" (December 2019 - December 2025)
- Dr Rebecca Richmond: Above and Beyond Breast Cancer Legacies Research Fund "Assessing the role of sleep in reducing risk and improving outcomes for breast cancer" (October 2019 - October 2023)
- Prof Richard Martin: Cancer Research UK Research Funding Operations Board - Conference and Meeting Award "What are the challenges in nutritional cancer epidemiology and how can Mendelian randomization address them?" (July 2019)
- Dr Sarah Lewis: Scar Free Foundation "Genotyping the Cleft Collective" (April 2019 - April 2020)
- Prof Nic Timpson: World Cancer Research Fund UK "Assessing direction and causality in the association between BMI and head and neck cancer: A pilot study" (March 2019 - February 2021)
- Dr Josh Bell: Elizabeth Blackwell Institute Early Career Fellowship "Altering body composition to prevent type 2 diabetes" (March 2019 - August 2020)
- Dr Paul Brennan: European Commission - Horizon 2020 Programme "Translational studies of HEAD and neck cancer in South America and Europe" (HEADSpAcE) (February 2019 - December 2022)
- Dr Brigid Lynch: World Cancer Research Fund International Regular Grant Programme (funded by Wereld Kanker Onderzoek Fonds) "Linking physical activity to breast cancer: a systematic review of mechanistic studies” (January 2019 - December 2021)
Awarded in 2020
- Dr Paul Brennan: WCRF: Funded by Wereld Kanker Onderzoek Fonds (WKOF), a member of the World Cancer Research Fund network, and administered by World Cancer Research Fund International "Assessing the role of obesity and insulin across multiple cancers using a Mendelian randomization approach" (March 2020 - February 2023)
- Dr Emma Vincent: World Cancer Research Fund UK "Is the impact of obesity on colorectal cancer mediated through changes to the circulating metabolome?" (April 2020 - March 2023)
- Dr James Yarmolinsky: Cancer Research UK Postdoctoral Fellowship "Evaluating the role of inflammation in cancer: robust target identification using genomic data" (April 2020 - March 2023)
- Dr Kathreena Kurian: Cancer Research UK Early Detection Committee "Development of a cheap sensitive blood test for early detection of new and proven biomarkers of glioblastoma using fluorescent carbon dots and nanophotonics" (October 2020 - September 2024)
- Prof Ken Muir: Cancer Research UK International Cancer Early Detection Alliance "Tiered integrated diagnostics for the early detection of aggressive Prostate Cancer: The Riskman-TARGET study to develop a novel screening approach for prostate cancer" (June 2020 - June 2021)
- Dr Kostas Tsilidis: Cancer Research UK "Investigating mechanistic pathways linking adiposity to colorectal cancer" (September 2020 - August 2023)
- Dr Heinz Freisling: World Cancer Research Fund "Obesity and cancer risk, and overall and cancer specific mortality among cancer patients: the role of comorbidities" (September 2020 - September 2023)