15 April 2025

The second round of the KHP Centre for Translational Medicine (CTM) Post doctoral Clinical Research Excellence Fellowships have been awarded. 

This scheme offers two year funding of protected research time for post doctoral clinical fellows to continue their translational research work and develop competitive external grant applications for independent fellowships. 

Patient representatives and clinical academics across all four partners have been involved at every stage of decision-making on funding awards. 

Those successfully awarded a Fellowship in this round are: 

  • Dr Michael Lim, Genomic, Epigenomic, Functional & Proteomic Dissection of the Mechanisms of NUP98 Rearrangement (NUP98r) Leukaemogenesis; 
  • Dr Rebecca D’Cruz, The interaction between respiratory failure and inflammation in patients with COPD; 
  • Dr Hasseb Rahman, PRECISE phenotyping to guide therapies for Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction (PRECISE-CMD);
  • Dr Harriet Cullen, Detailed phenotyping of repeat expansion variability for improved patient care;
  • Dr Andrew Watson, Enhancing Psychological Therapy for Co-Occurring Autism and Psychosis: Presentations, Efficacy, and Optimisation of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis (CBT-P).

The Centre for Translational Medicine brings together the organisations of King’s Health Partners and generous funding from the Guy's and St Thomas' Charity to work in partnership to improve the health of people locally, nationally, and globally. This is through accelerating research and innovation that improves the detection, prevention, and treatment of disease. 

The Centre for Translational Medicine aims to: 

  • address the major health burdens for local, national and global communities – and to challenge existing health inequalities;  
  • combine our outstanding clinical and scientific expertise to deliver excellent outcomes for patients;   
  • develop the next generation of clinical-academic leaders, skilled in delivering impactful translational biomedical research.   

Across four funding schemes in its first year - KHP Centre for Translational Medicine invested more than £8.5m in translational medicine. 

Find out more about the work of the KHP Centre for Translational Medicine.