Projects

Ongoing research projects

Project Name Funding Body Amount Awarded Duration ICOS Investigators
AI-enabled RNA nanotechnology DElivery SysTem for INformATION transfer into cells (DESTINATION) EU £ 3,381,888 2021-2025 (48 months) N. Krasnogor (PI), E. Torelli (CI)
Therapeutics DNA/RNA nanostructures Innovate UK £ 64,000 2021-2024 (36 months) N. Krasnogor (PI), E. Torelli (CI)
Engineering data structures organelles (EnDROIDS) - Chair in Emerging Technologies RAoE £ 2,738,988 2020-2030 (120 months) N. Krasnogor (PI)
Design the Future 2: Thinking Soils: Engineered bacteria as computational agents in the design and manufacture of new materials and structures EPSRC £ 598,309 2017-2022 (60 months) A. Wipat (CI)
Synthetic Portabolomics: Leading the way at the crossroads of the Digital and the Bio Economies EPSRC £ 4,353,851 2016-2022 (71 months) N. Krasnogor (PI), A. Wipat, J. Bacardit, M. Kaiser, P. Zuliani, P. Lord (CI)
Personalised ultraviolet B (UVB) treatment of psoriasis through biomarker integration with computational modelling of psoriatic plaque resolution RT £ 248,566 2016-2019 (36 months) P. Zuliani (PI)
CRITiCaL: Combatting cRiminals In The CLoud EPSRC £ 2,027,646 2015-2022 (85 months) J. Bacardit (CI)

Previous grants

Project Name Funding Body Amount Awarded Duration ICOS Investigators
APPROACH: Applied Public-Private Research enabling OsteoArthritis Clinical Headway IMI € 17,000,000 2015-2021 (78 months) J. Bacardit (CI)
SynBio3D: Establishing the engineering fundamentals of three-dimensional synthetic biology EPSRC £ 101,057 2018-2020 (24 months) A. Goñi-Moreno (PI)
Evolvable Assembly Systems - Towards open, adaptable and context-aware equipment and systems EPSRC £ 2,151,284 2013-2018 (66 months) N. Krasngor (CI)
Cloud Manufacturing - Towards resilient and scalable high value manufacturing EPSRC £ 2,364,080 2013-2018 (66 months) N. Krasnogor (CI)
EPSRC IRC in Early-Warning Sensing Systems for Infectious Diseases EPSRC £ 11,057,929 2013-2018 (60 months) A. Wipat (CI)
An New Frontier in Design: The Simulation of Open Engineered Biological Systems EPSRC £ 5,577,007 2013-2018 (60 months) A. Wipat, J. Hallinan, P. Zuliani (CI)
SynbiCITE - an Imperial College led Innovation and Knowledge Centre (IKC) in Synthetic Biology EPSRC £ 5,074,187 2013-2018 (60 months) A. Wipat (CI)
MICA: The Newcastle Proximity Laboratory MRC £ 2,808,680 2015-2018 (36 months) N. Krasnogor (CI)
An infrastructure for platform technology in synthetic biology EPSRC £ 5,007,845 2012-2017 (60 months) A. Wipat, J. Hallinan (CI)
D-BOARD: Novel Diagnostics and Biomarkers for Early Identification of Chronic Inflammatory Joint Diseases EU € 5,993,459 2012-2017 (60 months) J. Bacardit (CI)
Towards a Universal Biological-Cell Operating System EPSRC £ 1,026,408 2012-2017 (60 months) N. Krasnogor (PI)
Computational Colloids: Engineered bacteria as computational agents in the design and manufacture of new materials and structures EPSRC £ 240,435 2015-2017 (18 months) A. Wipat (CI)
Maximising the commercial impact of (meta-)genomics via bespoke HMM and big data tools Innovate UK £ 35,673 2016-2017 (18 months) A. Wipat (PI)
Exploiting the translational potential of bioinformatics driven diagnostics development EPSRC £ 82,852 2016-2017 (12 months) A. Wipat (PI)
A novel approach combining high-throughput and modelling methods for accelerated rational catalyst development with application to conversion of biomass waste into biorenewable fuels and chemicals NCL £ 9,974 2016-2017 (12 months) J. Bacardit (CI)
ROADBLOCK: Towards Programmable Defensive Bacterial Coatings & Skins EPSRC £ 791,388 2012-2016 (54 months) N. Krasnogor (PI)
Data Integration Approaches for Drug Repositioning GSK £ 67,580 2012-2016 (42 months) A. Wipat (PI)
TAURUS: Towards an Audacious Universal Constructor EPSRC £ 252,781 2013-2016 (36 months) N. Krasnogor (PI)
Modelling Human Brain Development EPSRC £ 465,494 2013-2016 (36 months) M. Kaiser (PI)
Fujifilm Case Award Fujifilm £ 8,000 2015-2016 (12 months) A. Wipat (PI)
Further characterisation of Clostridium difficile specific antibodies for translational applications MRC £ 13,630 2015-2016 (6 months) A. Wipat (PI)
Dementias Platform UK (equipment grant) MRC £ 15,000 2016 (3 months) M. Kaiser (CI)
Identifying the Biological Fingerprints of Fatigue MRC £ 451,572 2012-2015 (36 months) A. Wipat, J. Hallinan (CI)
Verification of Complex Cyber-Physical Systems CMU £ 75,600 2013-2015 (36 months) P. Zuliani (PI)
Collaboration with CERN CERN £ 15,476 2014-2015 (12 moths) M. Kaiser (PI)
Multi-level regulation of mitochondrial function in ageing and under caloric restriction BBSRC £ 508,887 2011-2014 (36 months) A. Wipat (CI)
CADMAD: Paving the Way for Future Emerging DNA-based Technologies: Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing of DNA libraries EU € 4,000,000 2011-2014 (36 months) N. Krasnogor (CI)
Accessible resource for integrated epigenomics studies (ARIES) BBSRC £ 264,942 2012-2014 (30 months) A. Wipat (CI)
13TSB_SynBio: Feasibility study on application of synthetic biology approaches to high yield production of Mycosporine-like Amino Acids for use as ... BBSRC £ 250,979 2013-2014 (18 months) J. Hallinan, A. Wipat (CI)
The CHELL : A Bottom-Up approach to in vitro and in silico Minimal Life-like Constructs EPSRC £ 729,420 2009-2013 (48 months) N. Krasnogor (CI)
Evolutionary Optimisation of Self Assembling Nano-Designs EPSRC £ 945,423 2010-2013 (36 months) N. Krasnogor (PI)
Centre for Plant Integrative Biology BBSRC £ 9,112,338 2007-2012 (69 months) N. Krasnogor (CI)
Computational Modelling of Neural Network Growth and Dynamics EPSRC £ 379,567 2009-2012 (40 months) M. Kaiser (PI)
Potential energy surfaces of various accuracy for bio-molecular simulations EPSRC £ 44,726 2011-2012 (9 months) N. Krasnogor (CI)
Adaptive Collective Variables: Automatic identification and application of multiresolution modelling EPSRC £ 33,362 2011-2012 (9 months) N. Krasnogor (CI)
Next Generation Decision Support: Automating the Heuristic Design Process EPSRC £ 2,666,765 2006-2012 (66 months) N. Krasnogor (CI)
CARMEN: Code analysis, repository, and modelling for e-Neuroscience EPSRC £ 4,013,763 2006-2011 (54 months) P. Lord, M. Kaiser (CI)
(Semi)Formal Artifial Life Through P-Systems and Learning Classifier Systems: An Investigation into InfoBiotics EPSRC £ 515,565 2007-2011 (40 months) N. Krasnogor (PI)
SynBioNT: A Synthetic Biology Network for Modelling and Programming Cell-Chell Interactions BBSRC £ 74,587 2008-2011 (36 months) N. Krasnogor (PI)
The Logistics of Small Things: a crossdisciplinnary feasibility account EPSRC £ 202,805 2009-2011 (16 months) N. Krasnogor (PI)
Principled Application of Learning Classifier Systems to Large-Scale Challenging Datasets EPSRC £ 101,458 2010-2011 (15 months) J. Bacardit (PI)
PLATFORM: Towards More General Optimisation/Search Systems EPSRC £ 422,908 2004-2009 (64 months) N. Krasnogor (CI)
An investigation of the role of Genetic Programming in a Hyper-Heuristic Framework EPSRC £ 227,675 2005-2009 (45 months) N. Krasnogor (CI)
IDEAS Factory - Chemical Craftwork: CHELLnet: Unifying Investigation in Artificial Cellularity and Complexity EPSRC £ 28,565 2005-2009 (48 months) N. Krasnogor (CI)
IDEAS Factory - Chemical Craftwork: The 'WellChell': A Public-domain Proto-platform for revolutionary discovery of Complex Chemical Systes EPSRC £ 167,026 2005-2009 (45 months) N. Krasnogor (CI)
IDEAS Factory - Chemical Craftwork: Directed Assembly of Functional Patterns (Brianchell) EPSRC £ 59,031 2006-2009 (42 months) N. Krasnogor (CI)
IDEAS Factory - Chemical Craftwork: Evolvable CHELLware EPSRC £ 81,737 2005-2009 (42 months) N. Krasnogor (CI)
IDEAS Factory - Chemical Craftwork: Evolvable CHELLware EPSRC £ 77,658 2005-2009 (42 months) N. Krasnogor (PI)
IDEAS Factory - Chemical Craftwork: Realising the Concept of the Artificial chemical cell with Vesicles EPSRC £ 93,403 2005-2009 (42 months) N. Krasnogor (CI)
IDEAS Factory - Chemical Craftwork: Realising the Concept of the Artificial chemical cell with Vesicles EPSRC £ 39,620 2005-2009 (42 months) N. Krasnogor (CI)
IDEAS Factory - Chemical Craftwork: Realising the Concept of the Artificial chemical cell with Vesicles EPSRC £ 147,847 2005-2009 (39 months) N. Krasnogor (CI)
IDEAS Factory - Chemical Craftwork: Directed Assembly of Functional Patterns (Brianchell) EPSRC £ 145,180 2005-2009 (42 months) N. Krasnogor (CI)
IDEAS Factory - Chemical Craftwork: Directed Assembly of Functional Patterns (Brianchell) EPSRC £ 83,400 2005-2009 (42 months) N. Krasnogor (CI)
IDEAS Factory - Chemical Craftwork: Directed Assembly of Functional Patterns (Brianchell) EPSRC £ 83,400 2005-2009 (42 months) N. Krasnogor (CI)
Bioinformatics, Systems and Synthetic Biology Plant Science Summer School ESF 2009 (6 months) N. Krasnogor (PI), J. Bacardit (CI)
Robust Prediction with Explanatory Power for Protein Structure and Related Prediction Problems EPSRC £ 209,589 2005-2008 (38 months) N. Krasnogor (PI)
DNA Mapping by Combinatorial Optimisation - A Visiting Fellowship EPSRC £ 10,224 2003-2007 (45 months) N. Krasnogor (CI)
Automated Grid-Aware, Three-Tier, Protocol for Protein Structure Comparison BBSRC £ 63,614 2005-2006 (18 months) N. Krasnogor (PI)