Funding

Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow. 

  • Biomarkers of dietary intake in faeces of children with Crohn's disease and their role in disease recurrence following treatment with exclusive enteral nutrition
    European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation
    2025 - 2026
     
  • Gut microbiome in children with leukemia
    Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity
    2024 - 2027
     
  • UC-TREAT as an adjunct therapy to advanced therapies in the management of ulcerative colitis
    Catherine McEwan Foundation
    2024 - 2027
     
  • Microbiome of the Tasty & Healthy Trial in Children with Crohn's disease
    Shaare Zedek Medical Center
    2024 - 2029
     
  • Metabolomics Analysis of Trompet Study Samples
    Erasmus MC Sophia Children's Hospital
    2024 - 2024
     
  • Developing nutritional guidance, resources and a structured nutritional programme and resources for boys with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: A mixed-model study
    Duchenne UK
    2024 - 2027
     
  • Application of Machine Learning to Precision Nutrition in Crohn's Disease
    Crohn`s and Colitis Foundation of America
    2024 - 2024
     
  • Development of Ulcerative Colitis Treatment with Eating Diet
    Cure Crohn's Colitis
    2023 - 2027
     
  • Optimising Response to Biological Therapy with UC-TREAT
    Glasgow Children`s Hospital Charity
    2023 - 2027
     
  • Reduce Risk Study
    Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Network
    2023 - 2026
     
  • Inflammatory responses to diet in patients with Crohn's disease post-EEN
    Crohn`s and Colitis Foundation of America
    2023 - 2024
     
  • Moniroting inflammatory responses to diet in patients with Crohn's disease using sweat cytokine monitoring
    Crohn`s and Colitis Foundation of America
    2023 - 2024
     
  • Biologics and Partial Enteral Nutrition in Crohn's Disease Study
    Leona M and Harry B Helmsley Charitable Trust
    2022 - 2025
     
  • Optimisation before Crohn's surgery using Exclusive enteral Nutrition (OCEaN study)
    National Institute for Health Research
    2022 - 2026
     
  • Dietary interventions in inflammatory bowel disease
    Catherine McEwan Foundation
    2021 - 2023
     
  • Unravelling nutrient-microbiome interactions with in-vitro gut models
    Cure Crohn's Colitis
    2021 - 2023
     
  • Analysis of the microbiome samples collected for the Trompet study
    Erasmus MC Holding
    2021 - 2022
     
  • The gut microbiome and response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer.
    Chief Scientist Office
    2021 - 2024
     
  • ESPGHAN Support Grant on IBD and Nutrition Research
    Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity
    2020 - 2023
     
  • Unravelling the Dietary Triggers of Crohn's Disease and their Interplay with the Microbiome and Host
    JP Moulton Charitable Foundation
    2020 - 2023
     
  • Unravelling the dietary triggers of Crohn's disease and their critical interactions with the gut microbiome and the host
    Crohn`s and Colitis Foundation of America
    2020 - 2023
     
  • CD-TREAT Pilot and Gut Microbiome
    Leona M and Harry B Helmsley Charitable Trust
    2019 - 2021
     
  • A pilot clinical trial to assess the clinical efficacy of the novel CD-TREAT
    Core
    2018 - 2020
     
  • The Role of Dietary D-serine in Health and Disease
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    2018 - 2021
     
  • Double blinded randomised controlled trial to investigate the efficacy of faecal microbiota transplantation in achieving and maintaining remission for patients wht ulcerative colitis
    National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)
    2018 - 2020
     
  • Double blinded randomised controlled trial to investigate the efficacy of faecal microbiota transplantation in achieving and maintaining remission for patients wht ulcerative colitis
    National Institute for Health Research
    2018 - 2021
     
  • The Imagekids study
    Glasgow Children`s Hospital Charity
    2018 - 2018
     
  • Can gut microbiota predict tolerance to enteral nutrition in children with intestinal failure? A proof-of-concept study
    Erasmus MC Holding
    2017 - 2018
     
  • FPIES Microbiome
    FPIES Foundation
    2017 - 2018
     
  • Exploring the inter-kingdom relationships of gut microbiota in Crohn's disease
    British Society Paediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology & Nutrit
    2017 - 2018
     
  • Investigation of the incidence, demographics and nutritional profile of childhood vitamin D deficiency in Greater Glasgow and Clyde
    Glasgow Children`s Hospital Charity
    2017 - 2019
     
  • Dietary treatment of patients with inflammatory bowel disease
    Cure Crohn's Colitis
    2017 - 2018
     
  • Precision targeting of the gut microbiome for the treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Autoimmune diseases
    Scottish Enterprise
    2017 - 2019
     
  • Intestinal Mycobiome: Unravelling the role of fungal microbiota in paediatric Crohn's disease
    European Crohn`s and Colitis Organisation
    2017 - 2017
     
  • A pilot open label study to explore the efficacy of CD-treat in people with Crohns disease
    Royal Hospital for Sick Children
    2016 - 2017
     
  • Precision targeting of the microbiome for the treatment of Crohn's disease
    Scottish Enterprise
    2016 - 2016
     
  • CiC Precision engineering of the human gut microbiome
    Medical Research Council
    2016 - 2018
     
  • Nutritional aspects in people with phenylketonuria
    NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
    2015 - 2016
     
  • Nutritional aspects in people with phenylketonuria
    NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Endowment Funds
    2015 - 2016
     
  • Double blinded randomised controlled trial to investigate efficacy of faecal microbiota transplantation in achieving & maintaining remission for patients with ulcerative colitis 13/179 (STOp-Colitis)
    National Institute for Health Research
    2015 - 2020
     
  • Micronutrient deficiencies and clinical outcome in children and infants with congenital heart diseases (CHD) admitted for corrective surgery. A proof-of-concept study.
    Glasgow Children`s Hospital Charity
    2015 - 2016
     
  • The Catherine McEwan Foundation Fellowship
    Royal Hospital for Sick Children
    2015 - 2017
     
  • Characterisation of Gut Microbial Taxonomy and Functionality using Next Generation Sequencing in Children with Crohn's Disease during Exclusive Enteral Nutrition.
    Crohn`s in Childhood Research Association
    2013 - 2013
     
  • Gut microbiota and energy from colonic fermentation of carbohydrate in children with simple and pathological obesity; cause or effect.
    Glasgow Children`s Hospital Charity
    2011 - 2013
     
  • Nutritional Status and Microbiota in Coeliac Disease
    Nutricia Research Foundation
    2011 - 2013
     
  • A pilot study to investigate the microbiota profile and metabolic activity in the colon of juvenile idiopathic arthritis patients at risk of developing Crohn's disease
    Glasgow Children`s Hospital Charity
    2011 - 2012
     
  • 'Nutritional Care of People Affected by Cancer' Education Programme Evaluation
    Macmillan Cancer Support
    2010 - 2011
     
  • ESPEN Nutritional Screening Study
    Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
    2010 - 2010
     
  • Characterisation of gut bacterial diversity in paediatric patients with Crohn's disease. Changes during treatment with nutritional therapy and comparison with healthy children and healthy relatives.
    Glasgow Children`s Hospital Charity
    2010 - 2012