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.