| TITLE | CHIEF INVESTIGATOR | DATES | HSC R&D COST | CO-FUNDERS |
| Communication and Restraint Reduction in Acute Inpatient Mental Health Settings | Dr Mary Lavelle (QUB) | 2024-25 | £104,866 | NIHR RfPB |
| Proud to be a Midwife Research Campaign | Dr Maria Healy (QUB) | 2024-25 | £2,450 | HSE |
|
Establishing a NI network accelerating access to clinical trials as part of the
LIFEARC rare disease trials acceleration platform (RD-TAP)
|
Prof Amy Jayne McKnight (QUB) | 2024-29 | £499,208 | LifeArc |
| Effect of an Oral, Peripherally-restricted Synthetic Cannabinoid, ART27.13, on Intraocular Pressure: A Pilot Randomised Cross-Over Study |
Prof Azuara-Blanco (QUB) | 2024-25 | £50,000 | Glaucoma UK |
| Harnessing the glucose lowering actions of alpha-melanocyte stimulatory hormone as a potential new adjunctive therapy for people with type 1 diabetes mellitus | Prof Alexander Miras (UU) | 2024-26 | £89,959 | JDRF International |
| RESIDE (Relationships and Sexuality in Intellectual Disability Education) PROJECT |
Dr Mark Linden (QUB) | 2023-25 | £49,550 | UKRI MRC |
| Towards the Identification of New Drug Targets for the Treatment of Melanoma Using a State of the Art Three-Dimensional Skin Reconstruct Model |
Dr Paul Thompson (UU) | 2023-27 | £99,689 | University of Limerick & Ulster University |
| Belfast Youth Development Study | Prof Kathryn Higgins (QUB) | 2023-25 | £249,332 | |
| Evaluation of a sustainable obesity prevention programme delivered at scale - ‘HENRY’ (Health, Exercise. Nutrition for the Really Young) Effectiveness, cost effectiveness and its role in obesity prevention within the sider complex system | Dr Laura McGowan (QUB) | 2023-2026 | £227,059 | NIHR |
| Pathsafe | Prof John McGrath (QUB) | 2023-24 | £543,144 | |
| Proof of Concept for using Cloud Technology on HSC Data | Dr Michael Quinn (QUB) | 2023 | £150,000 | |
| Investigation of Factors Contributing to Excess Mortality | Dr Magda Bucholc (UU) | 2022-23 | £11,170 | |
| Optimising Care Home Nursing Practice In Diabetes Care: Cocreation Of A Digital Intervention | Dr Gary Mitchell (QUB) | 2023-25 | £30,000 | Burdett Trust for Nurses |
| Randomised controlled feasibility study & exploratory trial of the Carers-ID intervention: Supporting family carers’ mental health following the COVID-19 pandemic | Dr Mark Linden (QUB) | 2023-25 | £34,959 | Bailey Thomas Charitable Fund |
| Walk with me Study | Dr Roger O'Sullivan | 2022-24 | £111,641 | NIHR |
| Co-designing an e-resource to support the resilience of care staff | Dr Christine Brown Wilson (QUB) | 2022-23 | £41,563 | Burdett Trust for Nurses |
|
GroundsWell |
Prof Ruth Hunter (QUB) |
2022-26 |
£520,003 |
UKPRP |
| Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome: Temporally Associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS): Cardiac features, clinical course and immune response of children in Northern Ireland. | Dr Thomas Waterfield | 2022-23 | £45,797 | NI Chest Heart and Stroke |
| Febrile Infants Diagnostic Assessment and Outcome (FIDO) | Dr Thomas Waterfield (QUB) | 2022-25 | £40,000 | Royal College of Emergency Medicine |
|
Optimising recruitment for adults with learning disability and type 2 diabetes: The Quintet Recruitment Intervention (QRI). more info here> |
Professor Laurence Taggart (UU) |
2022- 24 |
£111,127 |
NIHR |
| COCHRANE REVIEW: Multi-Modal Interventions for Cachexia Management | Dr Joanne Reid | 2022-24 | £26,710 | NIKRF |
| PACE NODES trial and prostate radiotherapy research | Professor Suneil Jain (QUB) | 2022-25 | £275,084 | PCUK |
|
Optimizing Quality of Life for People Living with Heart Failure in Care Homes: Co-Design of a Digital Intervention |
Dr Gary Mitchell (QUB) |
2022-24 |
£31,798 |
NI Chest, Heart and Stroke |
|
A Vision of Healthy Urban Design for NCD Prevention |
Dr Ruth Hunter (QUB) |
2022-23 |
£38,950 |
UKRI |
|
Informing the development of an evidence based public health approach: public awareness of palliative care and advance care planning |
Professor Sonja McIlfatrick (UU) |
2022-23 |
£72,000 |
DoJ & NI Ex |
|
ECMC TARGET Study |
Dr Victoria Coyle (QUB) |
2021-23 |
£119,665 |
|
| Student Psychological Intervention Study | Dr Elaine Murray (UU) | 2021 | £19,000 | |
|
Development of a Digital Intervention to Improve Oral Health for Older People Living with Complex Needs in the community & Co-development of a Digital Intervention to reduce Restrictive Practices in Care Homes |
Dr Gary Mitchell (QUB) |
2021-23 |
£27,400 |
Burdett Trust for Nurses |
|
Developing system-oriented interventions to reduce car dependence for improved population health in Belfast |
Dr Ruth Hunter (QUB) |
2021-22 |
£34,970 |
UKRI |
|
InflaTMP: Design of a novel combination anti-inflammatory and antiviral biotherapeutic for COVID-19 |
Dr Victoria McGilligan (UU) |
2021-22 |
£150,262 |
SFI & DfE |
|
COVRES2: Identifying temporal immune responses associated with COVID-19 severity |
Dr David Gibson (UU) |
2021-22 |
£209,543 |
SFI & UKRI |
|
Rapid development of a digital COVID Support Module for Cancer Carers **Final Report** |
Dr Olinda Santin (QUB) |
2021-22 |
£38,503 |
UKRI |
|
All Island programme of research on loneliness and social isolation |
Prof Gerard Leavey (UU) |
2021-22 |
£44,026 |
GBHI |
|
H2020: Evaluation of Dyadic Psychoeducational Interventions for People with Advanced Cancer and their Informal Caregivers (DIAdIC) |
Professor Joanne Reid (QUB) |
2021-22 |
£82,155 |
H2020 |
|
Walking for Health (WORTH Trial) |
Professor Suzanne McDonough (UU) |
2021-21 |
£40,737 |
EU Interreg |
|
ORIGIN: Radiotherapy Research - multi-modality imaging, radiomics, radiobiological modelling and photonics-enabled brachytherapy. |
Prof Suneil Jain (QUB) |
2020-24 |
£124,995 |
H2020 & Friends of Cancer Centre |
|
Extension - Movember Prostate Cancer UK CoE Grant - FASTMAN |
Dr Suneil Jain (QUB) |
2020-22 |
£300,000 |
Movember |
|
Thanks GD **Final Report** |
Ms Savannah Dodd (QUB) |
2020-21 |
£2,080 |
QUB & Arts Council |
|
Optigene Saliva Test |
Prof Stuart Elborn (QUB) |
2020-21 |
£13,903 |
|
| Developing and testing the InspireD reminiscence app as a stand-alone support for people living with dementia and their families | Dr Assumpta Ryan (UU) | 2019 | £1,000 | Atlantic Philanthopies |
| Convince Study | Dr Peter Kelly | 2019-2023 | £380,509 | HRB |
|
Develop, test and evaluate an online resource of patient experience narratives before and after surgery for oral cancer |
Dr Cheith Semple | 2019-22 | £20,554 | Macmillan NI |
|
PathLEAD – Pathology image data Lake for Education, Analytics and Discovery |
Professor Manuel Salto-Tellez (QUB) |
2019-22 |
£136,874 |
Innovate UK |
|
Recording Care through the PACE Framework: Research Evaluation of an Innovative Approach to Person-centred Care Planning |
Professor Kevin Gormley (QUB) |
2019-21 |
£56,143 |
|
|
Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC): Support for clinical trial development – CDC7 and IAP inhibition. |
Dr Vicky Coyle (QUB) |
2019-20 |
£50,000 |
CRUK & PCUK |
|
Public Attitudes to Breastfeeding |
Dr Paula Devine (QUB) |
2019-20 |
£65,409 |
|
|
Northern Ireland Complex Disease Bio resource (NICDB) and initiation of Genetic Links to Anxiety and Depression Northern Ireland (GLAD-NI) Study |
Professor Cherie Armour (UU) |
2019-20 |
£119,500 |
BRC BioResource & NIHR |
|
Precision Medicine Centre of Excellence |
Prof Manuel Salto-Tellez (QUB) |
2018-23 |
£500,000 |
InvestNI & QUB |
|
Development of Connected Health Living Laboratory |
Professor C Nugent (UU) |
2018-20 |
£205,000 |
DfE |
|
Development of a patient and family-initiated escalation of care scheme to detect and refer patient deterioration in hospital |
Dr Jenny McGaughey (QUB) |
2018-19 |
£2,740 |
HSE |
|
Understanding social norms and social network effects in school based smoking prevention |
Prof Frank Kee (QUB) |
2018-19 |
£40,000 |
|
|
Informing the development of an evidence based public health approach: public awareness of palliative care and advance care planning |
Professor Sonja McIlfatrick (UU) |
2018-19 |
£46,752 |
|
|
Women and Maternity Care Providers’ Experiences and Perceptions of Home Birth Service provision in Northern Ireland |
Dr Maria Healy (QUB) |
2018-19 |
£4,000 |
SHSCT |
|
Developing and evaluating an educational intervention for the maintenance of constipation: A feasibility intervention study |
Professor Sonja McIlfatrick (UU) |
2018-19 |
£12,000 |
Marie Curie |
|
Tracing the Longitudinal Belfast Youth and Development Study Cohort – A feasibility Study |
Dr Kathryn Higgins (QUB) |
2018-19 |
£45,000 |
AHSS Faculty |
|
Movember GAP4: INTERVAL – MCRPC: INtense Exercise for survival with Metastatic Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer: a multicentre, randomised, controlled, phase III study. |
Dr Gillian Prue (QUB) |
2017-22 |
£267,495 |
Movember & BHSCT |
|
Cessation of Smoking in Pregnancy (CPIT III Trial) |
Prof Frank Kee (QUB) |
2017-20 |
£200,000 |
PHA, Cancer Research UK, Chief Scientist Officer (Scotland), NI Chest Heart & Stroke, Scottish Cot Death Trust |
|
Pulmonary epithelial barrier and immunological junctions at birth and in early life – key determinants of development of asthma? |
Dr Ultan Power (QUB) |
2016-20 |
£200,000 |
Wellcome Trust |
|
TrueNTH UK – Maximising Sexual Wellbeing Project (Prostate Cancer) |
Prof E McCaughan (UU) |
2016-19 |
£30,000 |
Movember & PCUK |
|
Steps Towards Alcohol Misuse Prevention Program (STAMPP) in Northern Ireland |
Dr A Percy (QUB) |
2016-18 |
£94,122 |
|
|
i4i: Breath Analysis in Intensive Care: Proof of Concept for non-invasive diagnosis of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia |
Dr R McMullan (QUB) |
2016-17 |
£3,779 |
NIHR |
|
TRAC-24: Single centre randomised controlled trial to assess the effect of the addition of twenty-four hours of oral tranexamic acid post-operatively to a single intra-operative intravenous dose of tranexamic acid on calculated blood loss following primary hip and knee arthroplasty |
Dr D Beverland (BHSCT) |
2016-17 |
£145,365 |
Belfast Arthroplasty Research Trust |
|
Medication adherence in long-term conditions - leverage of the NICOLA study |
Prof J McElnay (QUB) |
2015-18 |
£248,605 |
|
|
A Cluster RCT pilot of the 'Good Behaviour Game' in disadvantaged areas |
Prof A Thurston (QUB) |
2015-18 |
£44,781 |
|
|
Psychological Trauma in People with Learning Difficulties |
Dr L Taggart (UU) |
2015-16 |
£42,675 |
Scottish Gov |
|
Nurse Fellow to the European Society of Cardiology |
Dr L Hill (BHSCT) |
2015-16 |
£17,145 |
Heart Failure Association |
|
Public Attitudes to Data Sharing in Northern Ireland |
Prof G Robinson (UU) |
2015-16 |
£46,675 |
|
|
The Effectiveness of School-Based Socio-Emotional Learning Programme: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis |
Prof P Connolly (QUB) |
2015-16 |
£80,000 |
|
|
Movember Prostate Cancer UK CoE Grant Optimising DNA – damaging therapies as treatment for localised and metastatic prostate cancer |
Dr S Jain (QUB) |
2014-19 |
£500,000 |
Movember |
|
Multiples Point of Care detection of sepsis pathogens, using biochip array technology |
Prof D McAuley (QUB) |
2014-17 |
£111,152 |
TSB & Randox |
|
Social Complexity in Pregnancy |
Prof G MacDonald (QUB) |
2014-16 |
£37,500 |
|
|
Diabetes education for adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) with Type 2 diabetes (T2D) and their family/paid carers: a pilot RCT |
Dr L Taggart (UU) |
2014-15 |
£12,750 |
|
|
Improving the implementation of findings from randomised controlled trials in complex critical care interventions through process evaluation |
Dr B Blackwood (QUB) |
2014-15 |
£11,022 |
|
|
National Survey of Recent Mothers 2010 Proposal |
Prof F Alderdice (QUB) |
2014-15 |
£82,141 |
|
|
Microbial community composition in the airways of patients with chronic lung infection: characterization and clinical impact |
Prof M Tunney (QUB) |
2013-14 |
£142,000 |
|
|
Assessment of the potential hypervirulence of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from Royal Victoria NICU outbreak |
Prof S Elborn (QUB) |
2013-14 |
£48,000 |
|
|
Infant Death and Co-Sleeping |
Dr A Lazenbatt (QUB) |
2013-14 |
£10K |
|
|
Understanding how to improve the lives of men living with prostate cancer |
Dr A Gavin (QUB) |
2013-14 |
£54,574 |
|
|
Improving diagnosis, prevention and treatment of infections in pregnancy |
Dr P Coyle (BHSCT) |
2013-14 |
£14,018 |
|
|
MeASURe – Systematic Review of Outcome Measures in Autism |
Prof G MacDonald (QUB) |
2013-14 |
£40,081 |
|
|
HARP- Hydroxmethylglutaryl-CoA reductase inhibition with simvastatin in Acute lung injury to Reduce Pulmonary dysfunction |
Prof D McAuley (QUB) |
2013-14 |
£115,953 |
|
|
The epidemiology, diagnosis and outcomes of Aspergillus infection in ventilator-associated pneumonia: A UK multicentre prospective study |
Dr R McMullan (QUB) |
2012-15 |
£41,400 |
|
|
Future Leadership Development Programme in Ageing Research in Ireland - North and South |
CARDI |
2012-14 |
£670,000 |
|
|
A Mapping Exercise to Explore the Evidence of the Role of AHPS in Health Promotion and Prevention. |
Prof S McDonough (UU) |
2012-13 |
£25,000 |
|
|
Effectiveness of a programme of exercise on physical function in survivors of critical illness following discharge from the Intensive Care Unit (ICU): a randomised controlled trial |
Dr B O’Neill (UU) |
2012-13 |
£15,442 |
|
|
Food in Schools- Reward Intervention |
Dr M McKinley (QUB) |
2012-13 |
£51,000 |
|
|
The cost-effectiveness of community-based models of care for child and adolescent anorexia nervosa |
Prof G MacDonald (QUB) |
2012-13 |
£118,170 |
|
|
EUROCAT (European Surveillance of Congenital Anomalies) |
Prof H Dolk (UU) |
2011-14 |
£228,601 |
|
|
The Effect of Antiproteases on pro-inflammatory mediator release and expression by alveolar neutrophils and macrophages in acute lung injury. |
Prof C Taggart (QUB) |
2010-11 |
£35,683 |
|
|
HPV Prevalence in Cervical Cancers and Premalignant Lesions of the Cervix |
Dr A Gavin (QUB) |
2010-11 |
£149,885 |
|
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To evaluate the effectiveness of a structured education programme about diet and insulin management for adolescents with type 1 diabetes |
Prof V Coates (UU) |
2010-11 |
£35,398 |
|
|
Infant Death and Co-Sleeping |
Dr John Devaney (QUB) |
2017 |
£2,500 |
|
|
Nicola Study - CoE Public Health |
Prof F Kee (QUB) |
2016 |
£300,000 |
|
|
Can Twitter sentiment help us design better social media-enabled mass communication interventions for public health? A feasibility study focussing on skin cancer prevention |
Prof F Kee (QUB) |
2015 |
£40,000 |