Developmental Pathway Funding Scheme

Membership from 1 April 2025

  • Professor Peter Parker (Chair), Francis Crick Institute and King’s College London
  • Professor Payam Barnaghi, Imperial College London
  • Professor Giancarlo Biagini, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
  • Dr Sam Butterworth, University of Manchester
  • Professor Ronjon Chakraverty, University of Oxford
  • Professor Divya Maitreyi Chari, Keele University School of Medicine
  • Professor Jenny Crinion, University College London
  • Professor Carl Goodyear, University of Glasgow
  • Professor Robert Gray, University of Glasgow
  • Professor Amin Hajitou, Imperial College London
  • Dr Paul Hamblin, Bioventia Consulting Ltd
  • Dr Tim Hammonds, TRH Consulting
  • Professor Fadi Issa, University of Oxford
  • Professor Kirsty Le Doare, St. George’s, University of London
  • Dr Watjana Lilaonitkul, University College London
  • Professor Michelle Lockley, Queen Mary University of London
  • Professor Helen Minnis, University of Glasgow
  • Dr Pavel Mozgunov, MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge
  • Dr Aidan O’Keeffe, University of Nottingham
  • Dr Aryelly Rodriguez Carbonell, The University of Edinburgh
  • Dr Alex Rothman, University of Sheffield
  • Professor Angela Russell, University of Oxford
  • Dr Sanjiv Sharma, University of Liverpool
  • Dr Alice Sitch, University of Birmingham
  • Professor Alan Stitt, Queen’s University Belfast
  • Professor Zion Tse, Queen Mary University of London
  • Dr Jun Wang, Queen Mary University of London
  • Professor Rachel Williams, University of Liverpool

See the Developmental Pathway Funding Scheme conflicts of interest register.

Associates

  • Dr Ela Chakkarapani, University of Bristol
  • Dr Helen Berry, University of Leeds

See the funding decision data for this scheme.

Contacts

For general pre-award policy and eligibility enquiries, go to the Research Funding Policy and Delivery team: rfpd@mrc.ukri.org

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For enquiries about scientific remit, see our science and contacts page.

Last updated: 11 April 2025

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