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Computer-aided molecular design: improved ligand docking using electronic structure and molecular dynamics simulations
The University of Manchester Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health
In structure-based drug design, computational modelling techniques are frequently used to predict the orientation and affinity with which a ligand binds to its protein receptor. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R A Bryce, Dr N Burton
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Accurate energy evaluation of receptor-ligand interaction
The University of Manchester Department of Chemistry
Drug design routinely uses existing computational methods to evaluate the interaction energy between receptor (protein) and ligand (drug) in molecular docking. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof P Popelier, Dr S De Visser
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Unravelling the dynamics of lipid bilayers and membrane proteins and their reaction to toxins and viral infection on the single molecule level using label-free microscopy.
Cardiff University Cardiff School of Physics and Astronomy
Approximately 30% of the proteins in a cell are membrane proteins, which represent more than 60% of all known drug targets and play a critical role in both infection and immunity. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof W W Langbein, Prof P Borri, Dr MY Young, Dr O Castell
 5 June 2020  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
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Computational Enzyme Design for the Development of Biotechnology to Create a new generation of living buildings (Ref: ET20/HLS/APP/SINGH)
Northumbria University Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
This PhD project will involve the following topics. Plastic breakdown. Computational enzyme design to suggest mutants which may improve the catalytic efficiency of PETase and MHETase for polyethylene terephthalate hydrolysis. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr W Singh
 1 July 2020  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
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Exploiting druggability host spots in protein phosphatase targets
The University of Manchester Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health
In the past years the use of virtual screening or computer-based screening of compound libraries against selected targets has expanded exponentially the boundaries of drug discovery. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr L Tabernero, Prof D Procter, Dr S Butterworth
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Structural insights into ligand binding and channel gating in ATP-gated P2X7 receptor
University of Leeds Faculty of Biological Sciences
  Research Group: School of Biomedical Sciences
P2X7 receptor, belonging to the ATP-gated ion channel P2X receptor family, exhibits distinct functional and pharmacological properties that are crucial for its role in innate immunity and inflammatory diseases and cancers (Jiang et al., 2013; Caseley et al., 2014; Roger et al., 2014; Wei et al., 2018). Read more
 Supervisors: Dr L H Jiang, Dr S Muench
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Investigation of structure-activity relationship of ACE inhibitory peptides derived from food proteins
University of Reading Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences
"Milk proteins are a rich source of bioactive peptides with a range of apparent biological activities, eg. antihypertensive, antioxidant and antimicrobial. Read more
 Supervisors: Assoc Prof P Jauregi, Prof K A Watson
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Evolving molecular switches
University of Warwick School of Life Sciences
You will study two ligand-activated molecular switches in detail. Crystal structures for the related F-box proteins TIR1 and COI1 are available. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof Richard Napier, Dr C Del Genio, Dr P Stansfeld
 7 June 2020  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
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