The University of Manchester, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health PhD Projects

(MRC DTP) "And Now, Today’s Pain Forecast" - Putting Predictive Models in Patients’ Pockets

The University of Manchester
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

Dr J McBeth, Prof W Dixon, Prof D Schultz, Dr T House

Application Deadline: 15 November 2019

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

This project is in competition for funding with other projects. Usually the project which receives the best applicant will be successful. Unsuccessful projects may still go ahead as self-funded opportunities.

Background. A third of the UK population has chronic pain. Pain severity and the impact it has on patient’s lives varies from day to day, it has a major impact on patient-perceived control and is one of the main reasons for poor quality of life.

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(MRC DTP) A single cell genomics approach to predicting treatment response in juvenile idiopathic arthritis

The University of Manchester
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

Prof W Thomson, Dr S Smith, Mr P Martin, Prof A Morris

Application Deadline: 15 November 2019

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Project

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

This project is in competition for funding with other projects. Usually the project which receives the best applicant will be successful. Unsuccessful projects may still go ahead as self-funded opportunities.

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is a group of chronic arthropathies of unknown cause affecting children under 16yrs, and is the most common childhood inflammatory rheumatic diagnosis, affecting 1 in 1,000 UK children.

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(MRC DTP) Advanced image analysis to track daily biological changes in prostate radiotherapy

The University of Manchester
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

Dr A McWilliam, Dr M Aznar, Prof A Choudhury, Prof C West

Application Deadline: 15 November 2019

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Project

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

This project is in competition for funding with other projects. Usually the project which receives the best applicant will be successful. Unsuccessful projects may still go ahead as self-funded opportunities.

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer for men, with 47,000 new cases diagnosed each year in the UK. Currently it is accepted that we over-treat men with less aggressive disease and under-treat men with more aggressive disease.

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(MRC DTP) Allostatic overload of precarious workers: Ambulatory assessment and intervention

The University of Manchester
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

Prof C Armitage, Prof M van Tongeren, Dr K Dienes

Application Deadline: 15 November 2019

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Project

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

This project is in competition for funding with other projects. Usually the project which receives the best applicant will be successful. Unsuccessful projects may still go ahead as self-funded opportunities.

Allostasis in humans refers to the return to homeostasis following a response to an environmental stressor (McEwen, 2012).

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(MRC DTP) Building the human endometrium in vitro: The role of macrophages in receptive and decidual endometrium to optimise reproductive health

The University of Manchester
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

Dr E Mann, Dr Peter Ruane, Prof J Aplin, Dr L Mohiyiddeen

Application Deadline: 15 November 2019

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Project

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

This project is in competition for funding with other projects. Usually the project which receives the best applicant will be successful. Unsuccessful projects may still go ahead as self-funded opportunities.

The human endometrium is a highly dynamic tissue that rapidly generates over ~20 days and differentiates to form a uterus lining receptive to embryo implantation, further transforming into decidua to support embryonic development, or breaking down before regenerating a few days later.

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(MRC DTP) Can we use techniques such as machine learning to improve the risk prediction of infection-related complications in order to optimise antibiotic prescribing?

The University of Manchester
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

Prof T Van Staa, Dr V Palin, Dr D Wong

Application Deadline: 15 November 2019

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Project

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

This project is in competition for funding with other projects. Usually the project which receives the best applicant will be successful. Unsuccessful projects may still go ahead as self-funded opportunities.

Antimicrobial resistance is a major public health concern and overuse of antibiotics is a major factor in its development. One strategic aim of the Government’s approach to minimise this is to conserve and steward the effectiveness of existing treatments by optimising antibiotic prescribing practices.

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(MRC DTP) Characterisation of longitudinal peripheral immune cellular changes in post-stroke cognitive decline

The University of Manchester
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

Prof C Smith, Dr J Grainger, Prof S Allan

Application Deadline: 15 November 2019

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Project

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

This project is in competition for funding with other projects. Usually the project which receives the best applicant will be successful. Unsuccessful projects may still go ahead as self-funded opportunities.

Stroke is a major cause of death and disability worldwide. In stroke survivors one of the most distressing complications is post-stroke cognitive decline (PSCD), which occurs in up to a third of individuals within five years and impacts significantly on quality of life.

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(MRC DTP) Characterising chronic pain experiences in children and young people with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis and chronic pain

The University of Manchester
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

Dr L Cordingley, Prof W Thomson, Dr R Lee, Dr J McDonagh

Application Deadline: 15 November 2019

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Project

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

This project is in competition for funding with other projects. Usually the project which receives the best applicant will be successful. Unsuccessful projects may still go ahead as self-funded opportunities.

The proposed PhD will investigate pain in children and young people with musculoskeletal conditions, including Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (or JIA).

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(MRC DTP) Closed loop brain-computer interfaces for neuromodulation in chronic pain

The University of Manchester
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

Dr A Casson, Dr Manoj Sivan, Prof A Jones

Application Deadline: 15 November 2019

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Project

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

This project is in competition for funding with other projects. Usually the project which receives the best applicant will be successful. Unsuccessful projects may still go ahead as self-funded opportunities.

Chronic pain is a major public health concern. Around 28 million people in the UK live with chronic pain and the healthcare costs exceed those of heart disease, cancer or diabetes.

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(MRC DTP) Computer-aided Detection of Osteoporotic Vertebral Fractures in Clinical Images Using Convolutional Neural Network Constrained Local Models (CNN-CLMs)

The University of Manchester
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

Dr P Bromiley, Prof T Cootes, Dr EP Kariki

Application Deadline: 15 November 2019

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Project

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

This project is in competition for funding with other projects. Usually the project which receives the best applicant will be successful. Unsuccessful projects may still go ahead as self-funded opportunities.

Osteoporosis is a common, degenerative skeletal disorder that increases the risk of fractures and causes significant morbidity and mortality.

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