2026 Awardees

Jamal Esmaily​ Department of Clinical Neurosciences​
Uncertainty-Aware Interpretable Multimodal AI for TBI Prognosis​

Elwin Huaman​ Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence (CHIA), Institute for Technology and Humanity (ITH)​
AI-driven single-cell multi-omics reveals the molecular logic of lung squamous cell carcinoma​

Anthony Torres-Ruesta​ Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER)​
Visiting the WHO Pandemic Hub: Mapping AI4EPI Governance Needs and Collaboration Scoping

2025 Awardees

For 2025, Accelerate Programme for Scientific Discovery and the Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3) are proud to announce funding, including ECR Seed Funding.

Full details: https://science.ai.cam.ac.uk/news/2025-11-26-ai-for-tomorrows-breakthroughs-15-new-projects-funded-to-transform-research

Zheng Jie Liew Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
AI-Guided Precision Solvent Selection for Sustainable Plastic Recycling

Yuanfei Liu Department of Psychiatry
Exploring effective community-level cooling strategies in response to heatwaves on population health: an agent-based modelling simulation study

Matthew Cotton Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry
Unlocking mechanistic insight into of the drivers of dementia

Szilvia Vas Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Development of an AI-Based Platform for Quantifying Feeding Behaviour in Mice to Uncover Hypothalamic Crosstalk between Sleep, Fertility, and Energy Balance

2024 Awardees

Katherine Brown Department of Pathology
Automated detection and annotation of RNA virus subgenomic RNAs through analysis of public RNA-seq data

Luning Sun Judge Business School
Does diversity among collaborative AI agents result in creative ideation?”

Julian Gilbey Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
Improving validation data strategies for machine learning in medicine

Dami Aderonke Collier Department of Pathology
AI Advancements in HIVAN: Predicting Progression to ESRD

2023 Awardees

Simon Carrignon McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Beyond Projections: An Interdisciplinary Investigation of Socio-Economic Processes in Sustainable Food System Adoption (pilot study and industry collaboration)

Liz (Yuanxi) Li Department of Psychology
Explainable AI for neurodegenerative disease subtype discrimination (internship)

Henry Moss Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
A Bayesian approach to equation discovery: improving reliability, robustness and data efficiency (academic visit)

Mia Sato Tackney MRC Biostatistics
Knowledge Exchange event for Digital Technology in Trials

2022 Awardees

Angelica Aviles-Rivero Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
TripletMIS: AI for Triplet Recognition in Minimally Invasive Surgery

Edward Harding Institute of Metabolic Science, Department of Clinical Biochemistry
Forming an expert network for AI-informed drug repurposing in neurodegenerative disease

Sarab Singh Sethi Department of Plant Sciences & 
Department of Computer Science
Broadening the reach of the Sound of Norway real-time eco-acoustic monitoring network

Pingfan Song Department of Engineering
Trustworthy AI for Health Research

Lin Wang Department of Genetics
Using deep learning techniques to optimize genetics studies of infectious diseases