Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Nanopore research collaboration
Longstanding industrial support for nanopore research. UCL’s collaboration includes DNA origami membrane pores and the development of sensing technologies.
Collaboration and research support
Partners
The organisations helping us explore what nanopores can do.
Research in the Howorka Group at University College London has benefited from industry collaborations, charitable trusts, research councils and international funding. Their support has advanced DNA nanotechnology, protein nanopores, single-molecule sensing and membrane science over the years.
Industry and academic resources
Scientific and Technical Limited
Academic enzyme resource partner
Industrial enzymes for academics: enzyme and kit resources for university laboratories, molecular biology and research workflows.
Charities and trusts
The Leverhulme Trust
Research Project Grants · RPG-170 / RPG-2017-015
Support for membrane-spanning DNA nanopores and related molecular research. The 2017 grant is also recorded among the project’s further funding outcomes.
Wellcome
Institutional Strategic Support Fund
Institutional funding acknowledged by the Howorka Group in its research on tunable DNA membrane nanopores and nanopore sequencing.
Research councils and funding organisations
BBSRC
UKRI · BB/X001342/1
Funding for molecular rulers that measure membrane thickness in live cells, alongside earlier support for synthetic DNA nanopores and selective transmembrane transport.
EPSRC
UKRI · EP/N009282/1
Support for minimal DNA nanopores for electrical sensing of proteins, with later funding for rapid, portable and scalable COVID-19 antibody testing.
MRC
UKRI · MR/W030489/1
Collaborative research on liposomal antibiotics, antimicrobial efficacy and inflammation. Stefan Howorka is a co-investigator on the award led by Nishkantha Arulkumaran.
Human Frontier Science Program
International research funding · RGP0047/2020
A 2020 international research grant for elucidating membrane fusion using DNA nanostructures, with Stefan Howorka, Rahul Roy and Aleksei Aksimentiev.
National Physical Laboratory
Research support and collaboration
Support acknowledged in early work on membrane-spanning DNA nanopores, including porphyrin-anchored pores and molecular transport through DNA channels.
Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
International support · P 30368-N28
Research funding acknowledged by Stefan Howorka in work on the triggered assembly of a DNA-based membrane channel.
NIHR Biomedical Research Centre: Moorfields
Biomedical research support
Moorfields Biomedical Research Centre support is acknowledged in the group’s work on tunable DNA membrane nanopores and nanopore sequencing.
We gratefully acknowledge current and historical support. Award links open the recorded project; where a dedicated award announcement is unavailable, the logo links to the organisation and a published acknowledgement is provided where available. Individual project acknowledgements describe the support for each study.