THE LISTER INSTITUTE OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE — grant history

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Latest income

£694k

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£2.6m

Accounts grants total

£2.9m

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: Applications must be submitted online through our grant management system, Benefactor Cloud.
Deadlines: The deadline for applications is midnight on Monday 28th September 2026.
What they don’t fund: The money must not be spent on providing or augmenting a personal salary.

Summarised from www.lister-institute.org.uk · www.lister-institute.org.uk/research-prizes/eligibility/ · www.lister-institute.org.uk/research-prizes/how-to-apply/ on 13/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

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Charities that name this funder on their own websites (website claims, separate from the accounts-extracted grants below).

JENNER VACCINE FOUNDATION “In recent years these have included the Wellcome Trust, the Medical Research Council UK, the European Commission, the Ga”

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

Arts/culture/heritage/science (2 grantees)
Education/training (2 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (2 grantees)
Environment/conservation/heritage (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Norfolk (1 grantee)
Throughout England And Wales (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2024 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2024	FY2025
new	University of Sheffield	—	£300k
new	Institute of Cancer Research	—	£300k
new	MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology	—	£300k
new	University of York	—	£300k
new	Imperial College London	—	£300k
new	Various Host Institutions	—	£156k
not listed	University of Birmingham	£300k	—
not listed	University of Glasgow	£300k	—
not listed	Host Institutions	£3k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
University of Sheffield	FY2025	£300k	Lister Prize Fellowship to Dr Johnathan Cooper-Knock
University of Cambridge	FY2025	£300k	Lister Prize Fellowship to Dr James Thaventhiran
Institute of Cancer Research	FY2025	£300k	Lister Prize Fellowship to Dr Stephen John Sammut
University of Oxford	FY2025	£300k	Lister Prize Fellowship to Dr Fränze Progatzky
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology	FY2025	£300k	Lister Prize Fellowship to Dr Kelly Nguyen
University of York	FY2025	£300k	Lister Prize Fellowship to Dr Chris Hill
University College London	FY2025	£300k	Lister Prize Fellowship to Dr Vilaiwan Fernandes
Imperial College London	FY2025	£300k	Lister Prize Fellowship to Dr Yuval Elani
Various Host Institutions	FY2025	£156k	Summer Studentships (52 awards)
University of Birmingham	FY2024	£300k	Lister Prize Fellowship to Dr Sarah Dimeloe
University of Birmingham	FY2024	£300k	Lister Prize Fellowship to Dr Rebecca Drummond
University of Glasgow	FY2024	£300k	Lister Prize Fellowship to Dr Andrew Davidson
University of Oxford	FY2024	£300k	Lister Prize Fellowship to Dr Nicola Whiffin
University of Cambridge	FY2024	£300k	Lister Prize Fellowship to Dr Alexander Borodavka
University College London	FY2024	£300k	Lister Prize Fellowship to Dr Elizabeth Rosser
Host Institutions	FY2024	£3k	Summer Studentship bursaries (43 studentships)
University of Manchester	FY2023	£250k	Lister Prize Fellowship to Dr John Knight
King’s College London	FY2023	£250k	Lister Prize Fellowship to Dr Joana Neves
Newcastle University	FY2023	£250k	Lister Prize Fellowship to Dr Srikanth Ramaswamy
University of Dundee	FY2023	£250k	Lister Prize Fellowship to Dr Kirby Swatek
University of Bristol	FY2023	£250k	Lister Prize Fellowship to Dr Helen Weavers
University of Nottingham	FY2023	£250k	Lister Prize Fellowship to Dr Fiona Jane Whelan
Newcastle University	FY2023	£3k	Summer Studentship to Dr Shoba Amarnath
University College London	FY2023	£3k	Summer Studentship to Dr Anthony Khawaja
Imperial College London	FY2023	£3k	Summer Studentship to Dr Marco Di Antonio
University of Oxford	FY2023	£3k	Summer Studentship to Dr James Davies
John Innes Centre	FY2023	£3k	Summer Studentship to Dr Tung Le
University of Exeter	FY2023	£3k	Summer Studentship to Dr Elizabeth Ballou
University of Leicester	FY2023	£3k	Summer Studentship to Dr Amanda Chaplin
University of Birmingham	FY2023	£3k	Summer Studentship to Dr David Bending
University of Cambridge	FY2023	£3k	Summer Studentship to Dr Rebecca Lawson
University of Exeter	FY2022	£250k	Lister Prize Fellowship
Imperial College London	FY2022	£250k	Lister Prize Fellowship
University of Birmingham	FY2022	£250k	Lister Prize Fellowship
University College London	FY2022	£250k	Lister Prize Fellowship
University of Leicester	FY2022	£250k	Lister Prize Fellowship
John Innes Centre	FY2022	£250k	Lister Prize Fellowship
University of Newcastle upon Tyne	FY2022	£250k	Lister Prize Fellowship
University of Oxford	FY2022	£250k	Lister Prize Fellowship
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine	FY2022	£2k	Summer Studentship
University College London	FY2022	£2k	Summer Studentship
University of Dundee	FY2022	£2k	Summer Studentship
University of Sheffield	FY2022	£2k	Summer Studentship
John Innes Centre	FY2022	£2k	Summer Studentship
UCL	FY2021	£250k	Lister Prize Fellowship for Prof Rickie Patani
University of Exeter	FY2021	£250k	Lister Prize Fellowship for Dr Stineke Van Houte
Newcastle University	FY2021	£250k	Lister Prize Fellowship for Dr Christopher Stewart
University of Oxford	FY2021	£250k	Lister Prize Fellowship for Dr Tanmay Bharat
University of Cambridge	FY2021	£250k	Lister Prize Fellowship for Prof Ravindra Gupta
Francis Crick Institute	FY2021	£250k	Lister Prize Fellowship for Dr James Lee
Host Institutions	FY2021	£97k	Summer Studentships (41 studentships at £2,350 each)

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 2556000 vs reference 2857000 (10.5% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.