WIN Seed Awards

Rapid Response Seed Awards - September 2024

In September, the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging invited proposals for up to £15,000 of scan and research costs from WIN researchers to support new research projects and engagement projects (public, patient, policy). 

Congratulations to all the individuals awarded a WIN Seed Grant in the latest Rapid Round!

1. Hemispheric differences at 28 days post-stroke in male and female rats - Yvonne Couch and Kamila Szulc-Lerch

2. Neural correlates of internal attentional selection across multiple spatial frames - Dejan Draschkow

3. Optimising sensory stimulation for glymphatic clearance - Benoit Duchet, Thomas Okell, and Wenchuan Wu 

4. Measuring task-induced and drug-induced cholinergic modulations with ultra-high field MRS - Polytimi Frangou, William Clarke, and Charlotte Stagg 

5. Neuroimaging of Economic Reward-Trading during Social Interaction - Fabian Grabenhorst and Tavish Traut

6. Impact of tonic pain on neural correlates of sustained attention and threat sensitivity - Danielle Hewitt, Eoin Kelleher, Anushka Irani, and Ben Seymour

7. Effect of Metformin Treatment on the Brain: Translating between Mouse Ex Vivo MRI and Human UKB Data - Chloe Jaroszynski, Kamila Szulc-Lerch, and Rogier Mars 

8. Pilot Study: Post-mortem MRI and histopathology in Parkinson's Disease - Johannes Klein and Laura Parkkinen 

9. The role of dopamine in sensory inference for movement control - Giulio Mastria

10. The Maternal Brain Study 2.0 - Joana Pinto and Sana Suri

11. Motion robust sub-millimetre diffusion MRI - Wenchuan Wu and Aaron Hess

12. A modelling and experimental framework to investigate the sensitivity of steady-state diffusion MRI to tissue microstructure - Zhiyu Zheng, Michiel Cottaar, and Benjamin Tendler