Prof Martin Knight
BEng, MSc, PhD, FHEA
Current Funding
- Organ-chip Facility: A world-class in vitro models facility for the UK community, reducing the barriers to adoption to drive animal replacement
Hazel Screen, Stefaan Verbruggen, Martin Knight, Julia Shelton, Timothy Hopkins and John Connelly
£573,537 NC3Rs National Center for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (07-10-2024 - 14-03-2025) - APP13387: Micro-manufacturing of tissue patterned organ-chips for accelerated deployment of new medicines
Martin Knight, Hazel Screen, Julien Gautrot, Timothy Hopkins, John Connelly, Liisa Blowes and Xavier Griffin
£1,787,725 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-10-2024 - 30-09-2027) - (EPSRC CDT 2023) Next Generation Organ-on-a-Chip Technologies
Hazel Screen, Martin Knight, Thomas Iskratsch, Caroline Roney, Yi Sui, David Lee, Julia Shelton, Zion Tse, John Connelly, Adrian Biddle and Lucy Norling
£7,066,811 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-07-2024 - 30-09-2032) - Development of an Organ-on-a-chip model of polycystic kidney disease using CRISPR modified human kid
Martin Knight and Cleo Bishop
£39,986 Kidney Research UK (01-12-2023 - 30-11-2025) - Epithelial Exchange Surfaces – From organizing principles to novel culture models of the gatekeepers of the body - MSCA-2022-DN Martin Knight
Martin Knight, Hazel Screen, Wen Wang, Clare Thompson and Cleo Bishop
£260,676 EPSRC - EU Scheme (01-12-2023 - 30-11-2027) - Re-profiled BRC 2022-27 Final - Precision Musculoskeletal Care
John Whiteley, Costantino Pitzalis, Martin Knight, Gregory Slabaugh and Xavier Griffin
£3,343,542 NIHR National Institute for Health Research (01-12-2022 - 30-11-2027) - Incorporating physical cues in organ-chip models
Hazel Screen and Martin Knight
£20,000 Emulate Inc. (01-10-2022 - 30-09-2026) - Human synovium-cartilage organ-chip for personalised surgical screening - Tim Hopkins - fellowship
Martin Knight
£311,203 AR-UK Versus Arthritis (01-04-2022 - 30-06-2026) - Organ-on-a-chip Centre of Excellence
Martin Knight and Hazel Screen
£420,794 Emulate Inc. (20-08-2019 - 01-10-2029)
Recent Funding
- Production of a Human Growth Plate Organ-Chip Model of Skeletal Development
Martin Knight, Clare Thompson and Hazel Screen
£197,923 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (01-02-2023 - 31-07-2024) - Highthroughput Light Sheet Microscopy: Imaging Across Scales
Viji Draviam Sastry, Caroline Brennan, Vidya Darbari, Jose Martin Duran, Ivan Kadurin, Maria Isabel Palacios De Castro, Richard Pickersgill, Sarah McClelland, Tyson Sharp and Martin Knight
£386,205 MRC Medical Research Council (01-10-2022 - 31-03-2023) - Correlating structural and proteomic techniques on cartilage
Himadri Gupta and Martin Knight
£18,515 MRC Medical Research Council (24-07-2022 - 28-02-2023) - Emulate Organs-on-Chips Centre Technician
Martin Knight, Hazel Screen and Clare Thompson
£49,584 Emulate Inc. (01-01-2021 - 31-12-2023) - Organ-on-a-chip model of breast cancer bone metastases
Martin Knight and Oliver Pearce
£268,711 CR-UK Cancer Research UK (01-01-2021 - 30-06-2024) - MICA: Organ-on-a-chip models for safety testing of regenerative medicine products
Hazel Screen and Martin Knight
£473,325 MRC Medical Research Council (24-08-2020 - 24-05-2024) - EPSRC Core Equipment Call
Wen Wang, Martin Knight, Clive Parini and Isaac Abrahams
£125,000 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (13-02-2020 - 12-08-2021) - Does the biological clock within cartilage align to diurnal patterns in activity?
David Lee, Hannah Heywood and Martin Knight
£9,954 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-10-2019 - 31-10-2020) - Pharmaceutical modulation of cilia expression-Miss Jeha Kwon
Martin Knight
£3,000 Royal College of Surgeons (07-05-2019 - 07-11-2019) - Organ-on-a-chip technologies
Hazel Screen and Martin Knight
£479,339 MRC Medical Research Council (01-08-2018 - 30-09-2022) - The effect of cobalt ions on primary cilia in bone cells
Martin Knight and Frances Freer
£2,500 Royal College of Surgeons (01-05-2018 - 01-12-2018) - META-DORM - Mechanobiology of METAstatic and DORMant cancer cells in bone marrow lesions
Martin Knight
£152,740 EU Commission - Horizon 2020 (01-01-2018 - 29-06-2020) - Collagen Fibrillar Network in Ageing Cartilage
Himadri Gupta and Martin Knight
£374,874 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (01-10-2017 - 24-07-2023) - Innovation Fund: High-throughput Library Screen
Martin Knight
£9,960 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (01-09-2016 - 31-08-2018) - Osteoarthritis May Be Treated as an Environmental Ciliopathy
Martin Knight
£365,598 MRC Medical Research Council (01-09-2014 - 20-03-2020)
