Funding

We thank the listed organisations for the generous funding of research being carried out in the Gregory lab

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Some of our current and past funders

Jenna M Gregory (0000-0003-3337-4079) – ORCID

Grants

2024

Target ALS Early-Stage ALS Clinician Fellowship – “Theragnostic potential of profiling CD8+ T-cells in peripheral tissues of people with ALS”: £330,000
(2024-2027)
Award to PI Jenna Gregory.

MND Scotland and the Scottish Government’s Chief Scientist Office Clinical Acadademic Fellowship – “Identifying early theragnostic targets for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis”: £257,368
(2024-2026)
Award to Advanced Research Fellow and Senior Biomedical Scientist Kristine Roberts (University of Aberdeen) to undertake PhD with PI Jenna Gregory.

Motor Neuron Disease Association Biomedical Research Project Grant – “Mapping TDP-43 and FUS pathology across motor networks”: £277, 723
(2024-2026)
Award to PI Jenna Gregory, and co-investigators Claire Troakes (King’s College London) and Mathew Horrocks (University of Edinburgh).

2023

LifeARC Research Grant – “Establishment of a point-of-care test to detect TDP-43 pathology in faecal samples”: £213, 884
(2023-2025)
Award to PI Jenna Gregory, and co-investigator Mathew Horrocks (University of Edinburgh).

Medical Research Council Equipment Grant – “NanoString Integrated Spatial Biology Platform”: £610,839
(2023)
Award to PI Jenna Gregory, and co-investigators Paul Fowler (University of Aberdeen), Elaina Collie-Duguid (University of Aberdeen), Gillian Milne (University of Aberdeen) and Kristine Nellany (NHS Grampian).

2022

Target ALS Foundation Consortium Award: $1,000,000
(2022 – 2024)
Award to Jenna Gregory as one of four PIs with $250 K direct costs award to the Gregory lab. Collaborative grant with Mathew Horrocks (Edinburgh University), Neil Shneider (Columbia University), Elsa Zacco (Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa) and Gian Gaetano Tartaglia (Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa).

Motor Neurone Disease Association Grant: £200,000
(2022 – 2024)
Award to Jenna Gregory as one of 4 PIs with £10 K direct costs award to the Gregory lab. Collaborative grant with lead PI Valeria Gerbino (Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome), Tom Manniatis (Columbia University), and Jemeen Sreedharan (King’s College London).

MND Scotland Research Award: £75,000
(2022 – 2024)
Award to Jenna Gregory (PI)

Royal Society Small Grant Scheme: £20,000
(2022 – 2023)
Award to Jenna Gregory (PI)

2021

NIH Transformative Research Award (TRO1) – “The physical biology of neurodegeneration in sporadic ALS/FTD”: $8,400,000
(2021 – 2026)
Award to Jenna Gregory as one of four PIs with $1.2M direct costs award to Gregory lab. Collaborative grant with Liam Holt (New York University) and Hemali Phatnani & Ai Yamamoto (Columbia University).

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Neurodegeneration Challenge Network (CZI-NDCN) Collaborative Supplement: $60,000
(2021 – 2022)
Award to Jenna Gregory one of four PIs. Collaborative grant with Michael Ward (NIH), Pietro Fratta (UCL) and Hemali Phatnani (Columbia University).

2020

Pathological Society Equipment Grant: £7,000
(2020 – 2021)
Award to Jenna Gregory (PI)

Jean Shanks Foundation and Pathological Society Clinical Lecturer Support Grant: £100,000
(2020 – 2022)
Award to Jenna Gregory (PI)

2019

Scottish Universities Life Sciences Alliance (SULSA) Travel Award: £5,000
(2019)
Award to Jenna Gregory (PI)

2018

Edinburgh Neuroscience RS MacDonald Seedcorn Fund: £5,000
(2018 – 2019)
Award to Jenna Gregory (PI)

Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS) Starter Grants for Clinical Lecturers: £29,435
(2018 – 2019)
Award to Jenna Gregory (PI)

Academic Trainee Research Support (Division of Pathology, University of Edinburgh): £1,000
(2018 – 2019)
Award to Jenna Gregory (PI)

Pump-priming Pathology Endowment Fund (Division of Pathology, University of Edinburgh): £2,000
(2018-2019)
Award to Jenna Gregory (PI)