Funded Projects 2023/2024
We are excited to announce the projects being funded through the RIPEN hub for the year 2023/2024.
We would like to congratulate everyone on obtaining this award and we wish the teams every success with their projects.
Feasibility Awards 2023/2024
1. Functional food dissemination and communication
Dr Amanda Lloyd and Dr Thomas Wilson from Aberystwyth University
Industrial Partners: TeTrimTeas and Phytoquest
2. Structural design of more satiating foods
Dr Caroline Millman from Sheffield Hallam University (SHU), Service Sector Management and National Centre of Excellence for Food Engineering (NCEFE)/ Quadram Institute
Industrial Partner: New Food Innovations
3. Food4PD - Validation of a novel functional food designed to meet the nutritional needs of People with Parkinson’s.
Dr Catherine Hughes from Ulster University
Industrial Partner: ABC Nutrition Ltd
4. An inulin supplemented food product to improve bowel frequency
Dr Edward Chambers from Imperial College London
Industrial Partner: Glatt Ingenieurtechnik GmbH Reginald Ames
Flexible Talent Mobility Awards 2023/2024
1. Academic research development to benefit health teas
Dr Amanda Lloyd and Steffan McAllister from Aberystwyth University
Industrial Partner: TeTrim Teas
Progression Awards 2023/2024
1. Impact of high-fibre wheat on starch digestion of white bread
Dr Brittany Hazard from Quadram Institute Bioscience, Rothamsted Research
Industrial Partner: Allied Technical Centre (ATC)
2. Imaging the Bacterial Disassembly of Legume Cells
Dr Natalia Perez-Moral from Quadram Institute Bioscience
Industrial Partner: New food Innovations
3. Understanding the In Vitro Digestion of Oilseed Rape (OSR) Protein Hydrolysate
Dr Aygul Dagbasi from Imperial College London
Industrial Partner: Bell and Loxton Innovations Ltd.
4. FRUPAL - Fruit Protease Activity for health
Dr Christine Bosch, Dr Alan Javier Hernandez Alvarez
Industrial Partner: Biopower Ltd.