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Research Grants

• 1989-90 National Science Foundation: Studies in pattern formation and cell movement (7,200 pounds) [P.K. Maini and H.G. Othmer]
  
  
• 1990-94 The Wellcome Trust, Mathematical Biology Studentship: Pattern formation in the developing limb (56,918 pounds)
  
  
• 1992 European Science Foundation (+ Wellcome Trust) grant for Study Centre: Mathematical biology; nonlinear pattern formation modelling in medicine and biology (35,000 + 2,000 pounds)
  
  
• 1992 NATO Advanced Research Workshop: Biological Pattern Formation (+ Wellcome Trust) (15,330 + 2,000 pounds)
  
  
• 1992-95 Science Engineering Research Council earmarked studentship: The mathematics of wound healing, (25,350 pounds) [J.A. Sherratt and P.K. Maini ]
  
  
• 1992-96 The Wellcome Trust, Mathematical Biology Studentship: Modelling wound contraction in the dermis  (65,912 pounds) [J.A. Sherratt and P.K. Maini]
  
  
• 1992 Royal Society Travel grant (150 pounds)
  
  
• 1993 The Wellcome Trust: Mathematical Biology minisymposium, 2nd BAMC Strathclyde (2,000 pounds) [P.K. Maini and M.A.J. Chaplain]
  
  
• 1993-94 Special lecturership, University of Oxford (3,971 pounds)
  
  
• (1993 LMS Durham Symposium: Spatial and Spatio-temporal Patterns in Biology and Ecology (6,500 pounds) (Not accepted) [ P.K. Maini and T.J. Pedley]
  
  
• 1993-96 SERC Postdoctoral Grant: A nonlinear model of antigenic diversity in the Development of AIDS,  (62,174 pounds) [P.K. Maini and M.A. Nowak]
  
  
• 1994-97 SERC earmarked studentship: Mathematical modelling of somitogenesis (27,000 pounds approx)
  
  
• 1994 EPSRC: Mathematical Modelling of Early Avian Development (2,422 pounds)
  
  
• 1994 Astor Travel Fund: Mathematical modelling of primitive streak formation (300 pounds)
  
  
• 1994-98 The Wellcome Trust, Mathematical Biology Studentship: Mathematical modelling of somitogenesis (71,160 pounds)
  
  
• 1994-97 The Wellcome Trust, Research Fellowship (sponsor for N. Monk): Mathematical modelling and analysis of the generation of order and pattern in early animal development (81,228 pounds)
  
  
• 1994-97 The Wellcome Trust, Research Fellowship (sponsor for J. Cook): Mathematical modelling of dermal wound healing: contraction and scar formation (92,880 pounds). Not accepted)
  
  
• 1995-96 LMS, Order and disorder in tissues: Modelling and analysis of wound healing and tumour growth  (1,000 pounds) [P.K. Maini, M.A.J. Chaplain and J.A. Sherratt]
  
  
• 1995-1998 EPSRC: Mathematical modelling of scar tissue formation (98,810 pounds) [J.A. Sherratt and P.K. Maini]
  
  
• 1996-97 LMS, Order and disorder in tissues: Modelling and analysis of wound healing and tumour growth,  (1,000 pounds) [P.K. Maini, M.A.J. Chaplain and J.A. Sherratt]
  
  
• 1996-99 BBSRC, special studentship: Spatial organisation in the early embryo (30,000 pounds approx.)
  
  
• 1996-99 The Wellcome Trust, Mathematical Biology Studentship: Spatial pattern formation in primitive streak (58,384 pounds)
  
  
• 1996 European Commission Grant to fund ECMBM 96, Heidelberg: (40,000 ECU) [K.P. Hadeler, J. Demongeot, O. Diekmann, P.K. Maini, V. Capasso]
  
  
• 1996-99 The Wellcome Trust, Research Fellowship (sponsor for E. Gaffney): Modelling the corneal epithelium and limbus: an investigation of the relationship between microscopic and macroscopic corneal epithelial biology (90,064 pounds)
  
  
• 1996 Royal Society Travel grant (540 pounds)
  
  
• 1997-2000 European Commission Training and Mobility of Researchers Grant (D. McInerney): Mathematical modelling of spatiotemporal patterns in biological systems (79,636 ECU)
  
  
• 1997-98 LMS: Order and disorder in tissues: Modelling and analysis of wound healing and tumour growth  (1,000 pounds) [P.K. Maini, M.A.J. Chaplain, J.A. Sherratt and H. Byrne]
  
  
• 1998 Royal Society of London and Mexican Academy of Sciences Exchange Programme
  
  
• 1997-98 Two-hour teaching trade-off, Oxford
  
  
• 1998-2001 BBSRC-EPSRC: Joint Initiative: Mathematical modelling of bacterial movement in response to multiple signalling cues (105,516 pounds) [P.K. Maini and J.P. Armitage]
  
  
• 1999 EPSRC: The mathematical modelling of morphogenesis: Applications of mechanical and chemical theories (4,840 pounds) [M.A.J. Chaplain and P.K. Maini]
  
  
• 1999 Joint Research Equipment Initiative (JREI): Computing applications in mathematics requiring large memory (13,000 pounds) [M. Vaughan-Lee, P.K. Maini and L. Smith]
  
  
• 1999-2001 EPSRC Network: The Cytocom network- emerging cytocomputational systems (member of the Network run by R. Paton) (60,000 pounds)
  
  
• 2000-2004 EU Research Training Network (5th Framework): Using mathematical modelling and computer simulation to improve cancer therapy (180718 Euro to fund a postdoctoral researcher as part of an overall grant of 1.449793m Euro)
  
  
• 2000 Royal Society Travel grant (600 pounds)
  
  
• 2000 EU Research Training Network (5th Framework): Spatial structures in biology and ecology: Models and methods (summer school) (35,000 Euro)  [O. Arino, A. De Gaetano, R.B. de la Parra and P.K. Maini]
  
  
• 2000-03 EPSRC: Moving grid finite element methods for simulation of pattern formation in growing domains (120,077 pounds) [A.J. Wathen and P.K. Maini]
  
  
• 2000-01 Two-hour teaching trade-off, Oxford
  
  
• 2000 British Heart Foundation, Education Committee Funding for the meeting, "From Individual to Collective Behaviour in Biological Systems'', [D. Noble and P.K. Maini] (3,000 pounds)
  
  
• 2001-02 Host for Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship: (15,270 pounds) [M.C. Mackey, J.D. Dyson, A. Fowler, P.K. Maini]
  
  
• 2001 Queensland University of Technology Visiting Fellowship scheme: (Australian dollars 4,600)
  
  
• 2001-04 The Wellcome Trust (co-sponsor with D. Noble for E. Crampin): Mathematical and computational modelling of myocardial ischaemia (110, 237 pounds)
  
  
• 2000 The Royal Society-Wolfson Foundation Laboratory Refurbishment Scheme: Mathematical and computational modelling in the Life Sciences (45,589 pounds)
  
  
• 2001 The Wellcome Trust: Vertical Integration in Biology: From Molecules to Organisms (meeting), Newton Inst., Cambridge (3,000 pounds) [P.K. Maini and N.A.M. Monk]
  
  
• 2002-04 EPSRC: Fast Stream: Cell communication through intercellular calcium waves during morphogenesis (58,487 dollars) [S.J. Chapman and P.K. Maini]
  
  
• 2002-04 CTS, Taiwan: Pattern formation in biology (1686,000 NT dollars - 40,000 pounds approx) [S.S Liaw, J.R. Roan and P.K. Maini]
  
  
• 2002 The Wellcome Trust : International Conference on Morphogenesis and Pattern Formation in Biological Systems, Chubu University, Nagoya, Japan (5,000 pounds) [P.K. Maini and T. Sekimra]
  
  
• 2003 London Mathematical Society: Visit of Dr S. Rao (1,900 pounds)
  
  
• 2002-05 The Wellcome Trust (co-sponsor with D. Noble for R. Hinch): Mathematical modelling of intracellular calcium regulation in ventricular myocytes and the generation of ectoptic beats (128, 145 pounds)
  
  
• 2002-05 The Wellcome Trust (co-sponsor with C. Stern for S. Schnell): Models for pattern formation in somitogenesis: incorporating the effects of fibroblast growth factor-8, cell adhesion molecules and cell motility, and Hox genes (116, 465 pounds)
  
  
• 2003-04 EPSRC: (Novel computation research cluster) Coping with complexity: Multi-disciplinary methods to model, measure, control and predict the behaviour of complex, dynamic networks (47,057 pounds: PI Dr H.J. Efstathiou) [member of network]
  
  
• 2003-06 EPSRC: Understanding group formation and the collective motion of locusts (256,364 pounds) [S.J. Simpson and P.K. Maini]
  
  
• 2003-04 Oxford University Research Development Fund: Mathematical modelling in medicine and biology  (62,328 pounds) [S.J. Chapman, P.K. Maini and C.J.W. Breward]
  
  
• 2004-07 EPSRC: E-Science pilot project on integrative biology (co-PI) (2,437,814 pounds)
  
  
• 2004-05 EU Intra-European Fellowship (sponsor for Dr M.E. Meyer-Hermann): A theoretical investigation on the relation of lymphoma and germinal centres (85,534 Euros)
  
  
• 2004 Astor Visiting Lecturership for Professor N. Trayanova: (1,458 pounds) [P. Kohl and P.K. Maini]
  
  
• 2004 Physiological Society: Biocomputation and Modelling in Physiology (meeting), Oxford (10,000 pounds) [P. Kohl and P.K. Maini]
  
  
• 2004-05 MRC Discipline Hopper: Understanding mixed pathogen infections within hosts: mathematical modelling and experimental research (56,344 pounds) [P.K. Maini and R.S. Hails]
  
  
• 2004 London Mathematical Society: Mathematical virology (INI satellite meeting) (2,300 pounds)
  
  
• 2004 EPSRC: Mathematical virology (INI satellite meeting) (2,350 pounds)
  
  
• 2005-08 NERC: Can metapopulation theory describe the regional dynamics of plants? (250,275 pounds) [J. Bullock, R Hails and P.K. Maini]
  
  
• 2005-08 EC (co-PI): Measuring and modelling complex networks across domains (1.5 million Euros)
  
  
• 2005-08 BBSRC: Robustness and sensitivity of intracellular signals in bacteria (343,512 pounds) [P.K. Maini and J.P. Armitage]
  
  
• 2005 Nuffield Foundation, Undergraduate Research Bursary: Intracellular modelling in bacterial chemotaxis (1,200 pounds) [P.K. Maini and M. Tindall]
  
  
• 2005 London Mathematical Society: Visit of Dr S. Rao (1,900 pounds)
  
  
• 2006-11 EPSRC/BBSRC: Doctoral Training Centre in Systems Biology (4 million pounds) [J.P. Armitage, D. Gavaghan, P.K. Maini, M. Sanson, C. Schofield]
  
  
• 2007-11 EPSRC/BBSRC: From bacterial chemotaxis to the prediction of complex networks: The Oxford Integrative Systems Biology Centre 8.98 million pounds) [J.P. Armitage, D.A. Fell, M. Sansom, C. Schofield, P.K. Maini, N. Johnson, M.E.M. Noble, D. Gavaghan, J. Hein, G. Reinert, P. Jeffreys, A.E. Trefethen, P. McSharry, K. Gull, D. Bray]
  
  
• 2006 Nuffield Foundation, Undergraduate Research Bursary: Understanding protein diffusion in the intracellular signalling of bacterial chemotaxis (1,240 pounds) [P.K.Maini and M. Tindall]
  
  
• 2006 Oxford-Princeton: Coarse-grained studies of collective organism behaviour (10,000 USdollars) [JREC: Y.G. Kevrikidis, S. Levin, P.K. Maini]
  
  
• 2007-08 EPSRC: Control theory tools for elucidating the phosphotransfer network in Rhodobacter Sphaeroides: A feasibility study (316,209 pounds) [A. Papachristodoulou, P.K. Maini, J.P. Armitage, P.E. McSharry]
  
  
• 2008 Wolfson Foundation: Application for funding the building of The Centre for Mathematical Biology in the Mathematical Institute, The Radcliffe Infirmary Site, Oxford (2 million pounds)
  
  
• 2008-10: British Council: University of Oxford-Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST): Towards a multiscale computational model of intestinal crypt dynamics and the progression to cancer (39,968 pounds) [P.K. Maini, H. Byrne, K.-H. Cho]
  
  
• 2008-13 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Global Research Partnership: Oxford Centre for Collaborative Applied Mathematics (OCCAM) (25 million dollars) [J.R. Ockendon, C. Breward, S.J. Chapman, D. Gavaghan, S. Howison, P.K. Maini, L.N. Trefethen]
  
  
• 2008: CONACYT (Mexico): Patterning, segregation and differentiation in complex networks (3.15m Mexican pesos (170k pounds) [R.A. Barrio, J.-L. Aragon, L. Zhang, K.K. Kaski, P.K. Maini, A.H. Machado]
  
  
• 2009 London Mathematical Society: Visit of Dr T. Sekimura (1,200 pounds)
  
  
• 2009 EPSRC: Mathematical modelling of spatial patterning on evolving surfaces (16,458 pounds) [A. Madzvamuse and P.K. Maini]
  
  
• 2010-2014 NIH/NCI: The physical environment in cancer biology and therapy (PI R.A. Gatenby, total 1,119,034 dollars -- P.K. Maini PI, Oxford sub-award (100,000 dollars)
  
  
• 2011-2016 EPSRC Cross-Disciplinary Research Landscape Award: A new approach to Science at the Life Sciences Interface. (3.8 million pounds) [D. Gavaghan, P.K. Maini, C. Deane, P. Coveney, A. Pominakowski, A. Johnston]
  
  
• 2011: Nuffield Foundation, Undergraduate Research Bursary,Mathematical modelling of diabetic wound healing (1,440 pounds)[P.K. Maini and H.M. Byrne]
  
  
• 2013-2014: Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships: StochDetBioModel - Stochastic and deterministic modelling of biological and biochemical phenomena with applications to circadian rhythms and pattern formation. (Sponsor for T. Vejchodsky, 231,926 pounds)
  
  
• 2014-18: BBSRC, Responsive Mode: A multidisciplinary approach to studying crypt-villus homeostasis and regeneration in the intestinal epithelium. [P.K. Maini and H.M. Byrne] (332,103 pounds)
  
  
• 2014-16: ARC Discovery Grant: A new hierarchy of mathematical models to quantify the role of ghrelin during cell invasion. [M. Simpson, S. McCue, A. Herington, L. Chopin, P,K. Maini] (321,000 Australian dollars)
  
  
• 2014-15: Visiting Research Fellowship, University of New South Wales, sponsored by Dr S. MacNamara (4,000 Australian dollars)
  
  
• 2015: Predictive modelling for healthcare technology through maths (POEMS) EPSRC funded network: The initiative for dialogue between clinicians and modellers (IDEAS). [X. Luo, P.K. Maini, S. Home-Vanniasinkam, Y. Hong, P. Lio, R. Tanaka, A. Bracciali, K. Tsaneva-Atanasova, V. Diaz, C. Dunlop, N. Ovenden, E. Boileau] (14,000 pounds)
  
  
• 2015: CRUK Oxford Centre Development Fund: Understanding blood flow and sprouting angiogenesis in tumours via a multidisciplinary approach based on mathematical modelling and 3D in vivo imaging. [B. Markeic, R.J. Muschel, J. Grogan, H. Byrne, P.K. Maini, J. Pitt-Francis, T. Alarcon] (15,000 pounds)
  
  
• 2016: Cancer Research UK Oxford Centre Prize DPhil Studentship (Axel Almet): The role of stromal cells in the healthy and diseased gut. P.K. Maini, A. Simmons, H.M. Byrne (116,000 pounds)
  
  
• 2016: Modelling the evolutionary epidemiology of chronic viral infections: Incorporating host heterogeneity into nested models of virus evolution, Wellcome Trust Summer Research Experience Placement Bursary (for Lauren Enright). R. Thompson, K. Lythgoe, P.K. Maini (1750 pounds)
  
  
• 2018: EPSRC Vacation Bursary (Leo Hochfilzer): Modelling infectious disease dynamics at multiple scales: incorporating within-host spread in population-scale models. P.K. Maini, R. Thompson (2380 pounds)
  
  
• 2019-2023: iCASE Studentship (GSK-EPSRC): Network stability in auto-immune diseases (co-investigator with R. Lambiotte and D. Austin: 50,592 pounds + 85,900 pounds)
  
  
• 2019-2023: iCASE Studentship (GSK-EPSRC): Mathematical modelling of cytokines (co-investigator with E. Gaffney and S. Zamuner: 50,592 pounds + 85,900 pounds)
  
  
• 2020: Lorentz Center: Workshop on: Modeling shape and size in biological development (with R. Merks, M. Alber, C. Godin: 5625 Euros)
  
  
• 2020-2022: Emerson Collective: TOP-MAP platform for predicting biomarkers for patient stratification and personal treatment (with H. Harrington, H.M. Byrne, E. Gaffney, M. Middleton, X. Lu: 248,107 dollars)
  
  
• 2020-2023: CRUK Multidisciplinary Award: Understanding the impact of hypoxia on therapeutic response in breast cancer (with H.M. Byrne, E. Hammond, S. Bohndiek and J. Pitt-Francis: 299,106 pounds)
  
  
• 2020-2024: CRUK Studentship: Modelling the effect of vascular architecture on the outcome of combination therapies (with J. Pitt-Francis, R. Muschel and H.M. Byrne: 146,595 pounds)
  
  
• 2020-2022: Roche: Modelling ocular drug retention technologies (with E.A. Gaffney and A. Caruso: funded PDRA)
  
  
• 2021-2022: UKRI: RAMP Continuity Network: Scientific Meetings, Rapid Review Group, and Policy Support for COVID-19 (with M. Cates, I. Abrahams, P. Bruce, A. Goriely, G. Ackland, M. Batty, J. Gog, D. Hollingsworth and K. Kavoussanakis: 521,569 pounds)
  
• 2021: Cancer Research UK Oxford CRUK Centre (PI: M Middleton: 12.5 million pounds)
  
  
• 2021: Newton Institute: The Mathematics of Movement: an interdisciplinary approach to the mutual challenges in animal ecology and cell biology, 6-month programme at Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge 2023 (with L. Giuggioli, R. Nathan, G. Abramson, P. Kulesa and H. Byrne: 130,000 pounds)