Recent Grant Awards
Project: Development of rapid diagnostic assays for marine biotoxins
Grant Holder: Professor Chris Elliott
Funded by: Knowledge Transfer Partnership
Total funding amount to QUB: £120,000
Total funding amount of Institute PIs: £120,000
Timescale: 2009-2011
Project: Signature specificbiomarkers for bovine disease diagnosis
Grant Holder: Professor Chris Elliott
Funded by: Invest NI, Proof of Concept
Total funding amount to QUB: £79,500
Total funding amount of Institute PIs: £79,500
Timescale: 2009-2010
Project: Development of a new research centre: Centre for Food: ASsured, SafE and Traceable food (ASSET)
Grant Holders: Professor Chris Elliott, Professor George Hutchinson and colleagues from SPACE and School of Management
Funded by: Programme for Government: Strengthening the All-Island Research Base
Total funding amount to QUB: £1,755,000
Total funding amount of Institute PIs: £1,200,000
Timescale: 2008-2011
Project: Development of equations for near infra-red spectroscopy (NIRS) technologies to measure grass chemical composition and intake potential
Grant Holder: Professor Chris Elliott and Dr Trevor Gilliland
Funded by: Teagasc Walsh Fellowship
Total funding amount to QUB: £50,400
Timescale: 2008-2010
Total funding amount of Institute PI: £50,400
Timescale: 2008-2010
Project: Effects of cider on endothelial function
Grant holder: Professor Jenny Ames and Dr Ada Garcia and colleagues from Medicine
Funded by: Brewing Research International
Total amount: £15,000
Timescale: 2007-2008
Project: Raman spectroscopic valuation of protein modification
Grant holder: Professor Jenny Ames (IAFLU) & Colleagues from Biomedical Sciences
Funded by: Medical Research Council
Total amount: £665,683
Timescale: 2007-2010
Project: Clinical Research Facility
Grant holder: Professor Jenny Ames (IAFLU) & Colleagues Medicine
Funded by: Wellcome Trust
Total amount: £6,046,446
Timescale: 2007-2010
Project: Studentship
Grant holder: Professor Jenny Ames and colleagues from AFBI
Funded by: Dunbia Ltd
Total amount: £12,006
Timescale: 2006-2008
Project: Endocrine Disruptors in Health Foods
Grant Holders: Dr Lisa Connolly & Professor Chris Elliott
Funded by: Food for Health Research Initiative
Total funding amount to QUB: £146,000
Total funding amount to Institute PIs: £146,000
Timescale: 2008-2012
Project: Contaminants in Food and Feed: Inexpensive Detection for Control of Exposure
Grant Holders: Professor Chris Elliott
Funded by: European Commission FP7
Total funding amount to QUB: £266,000
Total funding amount to Institute PI: £266,000
Timescale: 2008-2012
Project: Improving Animal welfare on farms
Grant Holders: Professor Chris Elliott and Dr Dr Niamh O'Connell
Funded by: AgReseach
Total funding amount to QUB: £56,000
Total funding amount to Institute PIs: £56,000
Timescale: 2008-2011
Project: Marine toxin analysis using SPR technology as the detection platform
Grant holder: Professor Chris Elliott
Funded by: GE Healthcare
Total amount: Large Scale Collaboration
Timescale: 2006-2011
Project: Exploitation of a current outbreak of Azaspiracid toxin in the Blue Mussel to improve the monitoring ability for this toxin in Ireland
Grant holder: Professor Chris Elliott
Funded by: safefood (Food Safety Promotion Board, ROI)
Total amount: £13,702
Timescale: 2006-2007
Project: Development of an immunoassay against lasalocid, monensin, naracin and salinomycin
Grant holder: Professor Chris Elliott
Funded by: Nestec Ltd
Total amount: Medium Scale Collaboration
Timescale: 2006-2008
Project: Development of a biosensor assay for PSP toxins
Grant holder: Professor Chris Elliott
Funded by: NOAA (US Government)
Total amount: Medium Scale Collaboration
Timescale: 2005-2008
Project: The impacts of environmental change in Irish lakes on the occurrence of algal toxins
Grant holder: Professor Chris Elliott & colleagues from School of Biological Sciences and AFBI
Funded by: CAST Water Service
Total amount: £23,000
Timescale: 2007-2009
Project: Development and use of monitoring procedures for banned drugs
Grant Holders: Professor Chris Elliott & Dr Chen Situ
Funded by: Invest Northern Ireland
Total funding amount to QUB: £263,559
Timescale: 2007-2010
Project: Diagnostics for Animal Health and Food Safety
Grant Holders: Professor Chris Elliott & Dr Chen Situ
Funded by: Neogen Ltd.
Total funding amount to QUB: £61,400
Timescale: 2008-2011
Project: Development of a unique means of detecting and proving illegal administration of recombinant somatotropin in dairy cows
Grant holder: Dr Chen Situ
Funded by: European Commission FP7
Total funding amount to QUB: €1,049,294
Total funding amount to Institute PI: €387,063
Timescale: 2009-2013
Project: safefood Food Safety Internship
Grant holder: Dr Irene Grant
Funded by: safefood (Food Safety Promotion Board, ROI)
Total funding amount to QUB: £97,000
Total funding amount to Institute PIs: £97,000
Timescale: 2008-2010
Project: Rapid detection of viable Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis using BIAcore surface plasmon resonance technology
Grant holder: Dr Irene Grant
Funded by: Invest Northern Ireland Proof of Concept Programme
Total funding amount to QUB: £78,361
Total funding amount to Institute PIs: £78,361
Timescale: 2009 (12 months)
Project: Investigation of the performance of a constructed wetland for removal of pathogens
Grant holder: Dr Irene Grant and colleagues from Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI)
Funded by: CAST Award
Total amount: £23,700
Timescale: 2006-2008
Project: Role of glucagon-like peptide-1 in cardiac remodeling after myocardial infarction
Grant holder: Dr Brian Green & colleagues from Medicine
Funded by: Diabetes UK
Total amount: £174,363
Timescale:
Project: Peri-Urban Land Use Relationships - Strategies And Sustainability Assessment Tools For Urban-Rural Linkages
Grant holder: Dr Alberto Longo, Professor George Hutchinson & colleagues from 31 partner organisations
Funded by: EU Commission: 6th Framework Programme
Total amount: £55,000
Timescale: 2007-2010
Project: EXIOPOL: A New Environmental Accounting Framework Using Externality Data and Input-Output Tools for Policy Analysis
Grant holder: Dr Alberto Longo, Professor George Hutchinson & colleagues from 37 partner organisations
Funded by: EU Commission: 6th Framework Programme
Total amount: £78,000
Timescale: 2007-2010
