UCL top for UK Research and Innovation funding grants

UCL has received the most UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding of any higher education institution for the second year in a row. New UKRI figures show the competitive funding decisions made by its nine constituent councils between April 1 2019 and March 31 2020. UCL secured 198 research and innovation grants and fellowships over that time, at a value of more than £138 million. This includes 39 fellowships worth more than £28 million and 159 research and innovation grants worth more than £110 million. Among projects recently funded by UKRI is the £3.2m 'Virus Watch' study led by Professor Andrew Hayward (UCL Epidemiology & Health Care), which was launched to monitor the spread of COVID-19 across England. This week, UKRI announced additional investment in new research projects investigating COVID-19 and ethnicity, and UCL academics Dr Robert Aldridge (UCL Institute of Health Informatics), Professor Chris McManus and Dr Katherine Woolf (both UCL Medical School) and Professor Hayward will play key roles in three new initiatives. Professor David Price, UCL Vice-Provost (Research), said: "Our researchers have once again been the UK's most successful in terms of grant and fellowship awards competitively won from UKRI, as they were in 2018-19.