Medicine PhD Research Projects for Non-European Students

Supervisor: Prof M Humphries

Parkinson’s disease has debilitating motor symptoms of tremor in the limbs, slowness of movement, and freezing, unable to move. A highly effective treatment is electrical stimulation deep in the motor regions of the midbrain. Read more

12 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Functionalised contact lenses for the topical delivery of cell therapies to treat chronic ocular surface inflammatory conditions

12 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Ocular surface disease is a significant cause of blindness. Current treatments relying on repeat dosing of steroids show poor levels of patient compliance. Read more

Supervisor: Dr L Sidney

Development of an optimised contractile strategy to improve the muscle health of older surgical cancer patients

Supervisor: Dr B Phillips

Following surgery for cancer, older patients lose significant muscle mass and function due to the physiological insult of surgery and physical inactivity in the postoperative period. Read more

12 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Is metabolic reprogramming the key to treatment failure in aggressive brain tumours? A multi-nuclear in vivo ultrahigh-field MRI approach.

12 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Glioblastoma is the deadliest brain cancer with poor survival rates despite improved understanding of its genetic causes; novel treatments in lymphomas offer survival benefits for some people with lymphomas, but when treatments fail, the median survival time is ~5 months. Read more

Supervisor: Prof D Auer

Leveraging genetics to identify drug targets for respiratory disease

12 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

We have made significant advances in identifying genetic variants that increase the risk of lung function impairment and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), including recently 26 genetic variants that are potentially deleterious to protein structure/function. Read more

Supervisor: Dr I Sayers

Mechanism of Action Directed Implementation of a High Activity Anti-Pancreatic Cancer Lead

Supervisor: Prof S Woodward

A 4-year PhD studentship is currently available in a Chemistry-Pharmacy-Bioscience team coordinated by Simon Woodward, Huw Williams and Isolda Romero-Canelón to be filled as soon as possible, for an October 2024 start. Read more

12 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

University of Bristol Bristol Medical School

Climate change and perinatal health: combining epidemiological data with climate projection models

Rationale. Climate change will affect human health through changes to heat stress, sanitation, access to sufficient food and safe drinking water, disease patterns, migration, and frequency of extreme weather events. Read more

Supervisors: Prof K Tilling, Dr DB Bernie, Dr CYS Shapland

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

University of Dundee School of Life Sciences

China Scholarship Council: Structural and Mechanistic Chemical Biology of Degraders Mode of Actions

Pioneering discoveries from the Ciulli Laboratory and others have contributed to the establishment of a new modality of chemical intervention into biological systems. Read more

Supervisors: Prof A Ciulli, Prof R Hay

31 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Utilising administrative data to inform FIT-guided suspected colorectal cancer referrals of symptomatic patients

Supervisors: Prof S Petrou, Dr C Nicodemo, Dr B.D Nicholson

Commercial partner: Alpha Laboratories Ltd. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third leading cause of cancer death worldwide. In the UK, around 43,000 new CRC cases are recorded annually, and its comparatively high incidence and mortality represent a considerable public health burden. Read more

1 December 2023 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Unravelling the effects of mitochondrial replacement therapy on mtDNA transmission

Supervisors: Prof J Poulton, Dr B Ryan, Dr A-V Lechuga Vieco

Commercial partner: Juno Genetics. Normal oocytes contain ~100,000 copies of mtDNA, which are effectively identical. Patients with mtDNA disease may harbour both mutant and normal mtDNA (heteroplasmy). Read more

1 December 2023 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Subgroup effects in antihypertensive and type 2 diabetes drug classes: a comparative effectiveness and safety study integrating real-world and genetic data

Supervisors: Prof D Prieto-Alhambra, Dr M Català Sabaté

Commercial partner: Janssen. Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson. Estimating subgroup treatment effects from clinical trials is notably difficult due to the limited sample size and under-representation of patients with multimorbidity. Read more

1 December 2023 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Single Particle Liquid Biopsy Analysis for Acute Myocardial Infarction

Supervisors: Prof M Stevens, Prof P Riley

Commercial partner: SPARTA Biodiscovery Ltd. Project background and description. Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) are nano-sized membrane vesicles with a phospholipid bilayer and are released by most cells, heathy and diseased, into biological fluids. Read more

1 December 2023 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Neutrophil subset behaviour in vascular and tissue microenvironment: organ-on-a-chip

Supervisors: Prof I Udalova, Dr J Fullerton

Commercial partner: DJS Antibodies. Read more

1 December 2023 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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High-throughput characterisation of the functional antibody epitope landscape of surface protein targets to guide vaccine and biologic design

Supervisors: Prof S Draper, Prof N Zitzmann

Commercial partner: DJS Antibodies. Understanding the nature of antibody-antigen interactions and how these relate to functional outcomes is vital in guiding the rational design of next-generation vaccines and monoclonal antibody (mAb) therapeutics. Read more

1 December 2023 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Development of bioactive ultrasound-responsive coatings for the prevention and treatment of orthopaedic implant-related infections

Supervisors: Dr D Carugo, Prof M N Nair, Dr S Abram

Commercial partner: Adler Ortho®. Implant-related orthopaedic infections pose a very significant burden on patients and healthcare systems globally. Read more

1 December 2023 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)