Funding & Industry Partnerships

£730K secured as Principal Investigator. £10M+ as collaborator.

A portfolio spanning industry, EU consortia, NHS Digital, and UK research charities — covering precision-medicine trials, spatial omics, and clinical AI.

2023 · Kidney Research UK Innovation Grant

LLM-powered chatbot for IgA nephropathy patients

£40,000

Developing a large language-model assistant to support and canvas the concerns of patients with IgAN.

AI · LLMs · IgAN
2023 · Kidney Care Appeal

Monocyte activity in rapidly vs. slowly progressive IgAN

£9,500

Cell sorting and transcriptomics to resolve divergent immune trajectories in IgAN.

Cell sorting · Transcriptomics
2021 · NHS Digital — AI in Medicine

ML to predict renal-replacement therapy in AKI

£200,000

A real-time machine-learning model for in-patients with acute kidney injury, integrated with NHS data infrastructure.

AI · ML · AKI
2021 · ANCHOR IgAN — Industry Grant

Characterising loin pain in IgA nephropathy

£250,000

Industry-funded mixed-methods programme: qualitative phenotyping, omics, and complement biology to define a clinically meaningful patient sub-phenotype in IgAN.

Qualitative · Omics · Complement
2019 · Kidney Research UK

Clinical Research Training Fellowship (PhD)

£233,435

Doctoral programme on monocyte and glomerular endothelial-cell contributions to endocapillary hypercellularity in IgAN — using digital spatial profiling and bioinformatics.

DSP · Bioinformatics · IgAN
2018 · East Midlands Trainee Bursary

Training in Machine Learning Methods

£4,500

Competitive bursary to undertake formal ML training with Data Science Dojo, Barcelona.

AI · Methods training
2013 · Renal Association

Elective Bursary

£200

Competitive bursary supporting a nephrology elective in Sri Lanka.

Nephrology · Elective
2024 · LifeArc

Kidney Eco-system Grant

£10,000,000

UK-wide programme to streamline clinical care and platform-trial research across adult and paediatric glomerular disease.

Glomerular disease · Spatial omics · Platform trials
2024 · EU PRIME-CKD

Precision medicine in chronic kidney disease

£290,000

EU collaborative programme integrating biomarkers and spatial transcriptomics into precision-medicine CKD trials.

Biomarkers · Precision-medicine trials · Spatial transcriptomics
2024 · Industry Grant

Reversible mechanisms in glomerular disease

£1,000,000

Industry-funded programme using spatial transcriptomics and imaging mass spectrometry to identify reversible pathophysiology in glomerular disease.

Spatial transcriptomics · Bioinformatics · Imaging mass spec
2023 · MAARA Grant

Spatial transcriptomics in airway disease

£93,701

Cross-disease application of spatial omics to map reversible mechanisms in airway pathology.

Spatial transcriptomics · Bioinformatics · Airway disease
2023 · Funding Auto-Immune Research

Adult vs. paediatric kidney disease pathways

£50,000

Identifying common, druggable pathways between paediatric and adult glomerular disease.

Spatial transcriptomics · Bioinformatics
Funding Summary

By role and by source.

£730K+
As Principal Investigator
£10M+
As Collaborator
3
Industry Partnerships
12
Funded Programmes
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Open to academic and industry collaboration.

If you’re working on kidney disease research programmes, clinical trials, biomarker strategy, spatial omics, or clinically deployed ML/AI — I’d be glad to talk.

Mayer IgA Nephropathy Laboratories  ·  Hodgkin Building  ·  University of Leicester  ·  LE1 7RH  ·  United Kingdom