Past Research Projects
Seed Funding: Italy
Awarded: 2023
"Epidemiology of autoimmune encephalitis and its mimics in the province of Verona, Italy"
Project lead: Alessandro Dinoto, Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona
Seed Funding: UK
Awarded: 2023
"COPE-EMBRACE: Coping with Stress After Encephalitis Using Real-Time Assessment"
Project Lead: Dr Sara Simblett, Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London
Seed Funding: Uganda
Awarded: 2022
"Differentiating viral encephalitis from its mimics in patients with encephalitis of unknown aetiology"
Project Lead: Dr. John Kasibante, Research Department, Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Seed Funding: India
Awarded 2022
"To develop a novel diagnostic test that can differentiate scrub typhus from other causes of acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) in children"
Project Lead - Dr Tina Damodar DBT-Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow, Department of Neurovirology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru, India (External sponsor for DBT Wellcome trust project: Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
Seed Funding: Senegal
Awarded 2021
"Implementing an hospital-based encephalitis surveillance in Senegal to decipher main causes of viral encephalitis
in a West-African Low-Income Country"
Project Lead: Dr Jamil Kahwagi, Clinique de Neurosciences Ibrahima Pierre Ndiaye, CHNU FANN, Dakar, SENEGAL
Seed Funding: India
Awarded 2021
"Validation of the Paediatric Autoimmune Encephalitis Severity Score (PASS) in children with autoimmune encephalitis"
Project Lead - Dr. Priyanka Madaan, Paediatric Neurology Unit, Department of Paediatrics, Post graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
Seed Funding: Columbia University, USA
Awarded: 2020
"Defining the neuroinvasive potential of SARS-CoV-2 in brain autopsies of COVID-19 patients and controls"
Project Lead: Dr Emily Happy Miller, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center-New York Presbyterian Hospital
Seed Funding: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA
Awarded: 2020
"Dissecting the selective vulnerability of dopamine neurons to SARS-CoV-2 infection using human stem cell models"
Project Lead: Dr Oliver Harschnitz, The Center of Stem Cell Biology, Developmental Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York, USA)
Seed Funding: Cameroon
Awarded: 2019
"Aetiologies, clinical presentation and neuro-cognitive outcomes of non-HIV associated encephalitis in Cameroon – exploring a neglected disease in a low income African country"
Project lead – Dr Alain Kenfak Foguena, Jura Bernois Hospital (HJB), Moutier, Switzerland and Filariasis and other Tropical Diseases Research Centre (CRFilMT), Yaoundé, Cameroon
Seed Funding: Brazil
Awarded: 2019
"Encephalitis’ clinical and laboratory characteristics during a triple epidemic of Dengue, Zika and Chikungunya"
Project Lead: Dr Aline de Moura Brasil Matos, Instituto de Medicina Tropical, Medicine School, University of São Paulo, Brazil
NeuroAccess: Lusaka, Zambia
2016
Dr Michael Bonello (supported by Prof Benedict Michael and Dr Sam Nightingale), ST7 Neurology, The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK
NeuroAccess: Mozambique
July 2014
The hospital
Prof Benedict Michael and Dr Sam Nightingale visited Beira Public Hospital in Mozambique between 16-27th June, 2014.