International Institutional Awards Tranche 1 Cambridge
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Cambridge
Department Name: Oncology
Abstract
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Organisations
- University of Cambridge (Lead Research Organisation)
- Busitema University (Collaboration)
- University of Dschang (Collaboration)
- Agroscope (Collaboration)
- Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology (Collaboration)
- Sapienza University of Rome (Collaboration)
- University of Suffolk (Collaboration)
- Kenya Medical Research Institute (Collaboration)
- Archer Daniels Midland (Collaboration)
- Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (Collaboration)
- GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) (Collaboration)
People |
ORCID iD |
| Anna Philpott (Principal Investigator) |
| Description | Overall, the funding was very well received facilitating new international collaborations and strengthening existing international partnerships. We funded 17 projects with this grant, key findings are summarised in our end of grant reporting submitted on 15.10.2024 (no further findings since then). |
| Exploitation Route | 1. Plans to build equitable partnerships and pursue research relevant to partners (who are the expected end beneficiaries e.g. Ugandan Cancer Institute, Pan African Thoracic Society, West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement) 2. Knowledge exchange with partners in healthcare and policy advisors (UKHSA), and between researchers and industry (GSK), and between researchers and WAVE (West African Virus Epidemiology) 3. Plans to pursue IP protection on novel devices, changing industry practice 4. Media coverage has raised awareness of the novel enzymes in Felide Metagenomes in the Amazon Jungle 5. Research exchanges and capacity/skill building (including bioinformatics, genomics, sequencing capabilities) |
| Sectors | Agriculture Food and Drink Communities and Social Services/Policy Education Environment Healthcare Manufacturing including Industrial Biotechology Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology |
| Description | LI |
| Amount | € 40,000 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU Munich) |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Germany |
| Start | 01/2025 |
| End | 12/2026 |
| Description | ADM |
| Organisation | Archer Daniels Midland |
| Department | ADM Deerland Probiotics & Enzymes |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Expertise in scalable microfluidic platform and rapid prototyping |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in advanced microbiome health solutions |
| Impact | n/a |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | African AMR working group |
| Organisation | Busitema University |
| Country | Uganda |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | expertise on AMR and embedding NGS as a means of monitoring AMR and pathogen dissemination |
| Collaborator Contribution | knowledge exchange of on the ground practice in, the importance of a one health approach and climate considerations re AMR |
| Impact | n/a |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | African AMR working group |
| Organisation | Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology |
| Country | Tanzania, United Republic of |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | expertise on AMR and embedding NGS as a means of monitoring AMR and pathogen dissemination |
| Collaborator Contribution | knowledge exchange of on the ground practice in, the importance of a one health approach and climate considerations re AMR |
| Impact | n/a |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | African AMR working group |
| Organisation | Kenya Medical Research Institute |
| Country | Kenya |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | expertise on AMR and embedding NGS as a means of monitoring AMR and pathogen dissemination |
| Collaborator Contribution | knowledge exchange of on the ground practice in, the importance of a one health approach and climate considerations re AMR |
| Impact | n/a |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | African AMR working group |
| Organisation | University of Dschang |
| Country | Cameroon |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | expertise on AMR and embedding NGS as a means of monitoring AMR and pathogen dissemination |
| Collaborator Contribution | knowledge exchange of on the ground practice in, the importance of a one health approach and climate considerations re AMR |
| Impact | n/a |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | African AMR working group |
| Organisation | University of Suffolk |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | expertise on AMR and embedding NGS as a means of monitoring AMR and pathogen dissemination |
| Collaborator Contribution | knowledge exchange of on the ground practice in, the importance of a one health approach and climate considerations re AMR |
| Impact | n/a |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CL Sapienza |
| Organisation | Sapienza University of Rome |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | expertise in 3d breast cancer model functional assays |
| Collaborator Contribution | expertise in bioinformatics |
| Impact | n/a |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | GSK |
| Organisation | GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) |
| Department | GSK Vaccines Institute for Global Health |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Expertise in how microbial genomic and serological data can inform vaccine design and deployment |
| Collaborator Contribution | expertise in designing and deploying global health vaccines |
| Impact | n/a |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | agroscope |
| Organisation | Agroscope |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | expertise microscopy techniques for analysing plant-microbe interactions |
| Collaborator Contribution | expertise in computational analysis of DNA sequencing for molecular microbial ecology |
| Impact | n/a |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | donald danforth |
| Organisation | Donald Danforth Plant Science Center |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | expertise in plant fungal symbiosis |
| Collaborator Contribution | expertise in carbon labelling for single nuclei RNA-sequencing |
| Impact | n/a |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CA Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Cambridge-Africa Day was an exciting high profile knowledge exchange event for academics and a range of practitioners, with presentations on equitable research partnerships and activities between Cambridge and African researchers. The event was designed to provide many opportunities for discussions, networking, capacity building and sharing best practice in academia and in civil society with an emphasis on drawing on expertise from low income countries as well as Cambridge. The knowledge exchange supports best practice beyond academia and recognises the knowledge and expertise of international partners embedded in their communities in the global South. It stimulated new international collaborations through the main conference, the networking and side meetings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Workshop KB |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Knowledge exchange to identify areas of synergy/capabilities for future work delivering vaccines for Global Health |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Workshop LD |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Two-day workshop in Andhra Pradesh, SE India, in June 2024 bridging across agricultural policy, biodiversity conservation and research. Academic institutions, conservation organizations, and food system actors convened to discuss the implications of the world's largest agroecological transition, Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF), on food security, livelihoods, and biodiversity conservation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Workshop MW |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Assessed interest in developing one or more Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)/pathogen surveillance hubs in central/east sub-Saharan Africa; an area where AMR dissemination is poorly understood but particularly pervasive |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |