Acknowledgements

Funding

The lab is part of The Francis Crick Institute, which receives its core funding from Cancer Research UK, the UK Medical Research Council, and the Wellcome Trust.

The Francis Crick Institute is a unique partnership

Our research is also made possible by the generous support of public funding bodies, charities, and private foundations. We are grateful to all our funders.

European Research Council Medical Research Council Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council <strong>BBSRC</strong>

Research Grants

2025 – 2027 Banton Fund award. Directed evolution of a lentiviral envelope for integrating and nonintegrating gene therapy vectors. Collaboration with Dr. Matteo Rizzi, University College London.
2022 – 2027 European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant. Midbrain circuits underlying multisensory depth perception.
2023 – 2025 BBSRC — Cognitive Computational Neuroscience. Network mechanisms underlying multisensory spatial attention. Collaboration with Dr. Sadra Sadeh, Imperial College London.
2023 – 2025 MRC Research Grant. The role of serotonin in the modulation of multisensory spatial attention.

Externally Funded Postdoctoral Scientists

2020 – 2022 Dennis Eickelbeck. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship.
2020 – 2022 Raziye Karapinar. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship.
2020 – 2021 Aleks Domanski. Crick–Turing Biomedical Data Science Awards.

PhD Studentships

2026 – 2029 Anna Obure. School of Convergence Science, Imperial College London.
2025 – 2029 Leslie Egbo. Future Leaders in Biomedical Sciences Scholarship, The Francis Crick Institute.
2024 – 2027 Iris Marmouset-De La Taille Tretin. EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Approaches to Biomedical Science, University of Oxford. Joint PhD student with Dr. Rui Ponte Costa.
2023 – 2026 Roy Chan, co-supervised with Dr. Ko Ho, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Crick Sandwich Student Programme

2023 – 2024 Margaux Checkroun. MSci in Neuroscience, University of Aberdeen.
2022 – 2023 Ayesha Pointer. MSci in Neuroscience, University of Manchester.