Other PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships in Leeds

Supervisor: Dr Y Benitez-Alfonso

Apply to join the Benitez-Alfonso team in their quest to dissect the mechanisms underpinning the function of beta-1,3 glucan polymers in plant growth and development. . Read more

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Assessing demographic resilience of tropical and temperate reef organisms

Supervisors: Prof M Beger, Dr JF Firth, Dr R Salguero-Gómez

Adapt, move, or die. These are the three options that reef organisms have as the environment around them changes, such as that happening under ongoing climate change. Read more

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

The role of ageing cutaneous fibroblasts in modulating melanocyte pigmentation

Supervisors: Dr S Kauser, Dr S Sikkink, Dr F Sefat

Research Group: Centre for Skin Sciences

The aim of the project is to gain an understanding of how aged skin fibroblasts and their secretory phenotype contribute to ageing pigmentation and commonly associated disorders. Read more

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Cancer: Investigation of accentuated mitochondrial ROS and NLRP3 inflammasome activation in cystic fibrosis and colorectal carcinoma.

Supervisors: Prof D Peckham, Prof D Jayne, Dr S Savic, Miss LR Caley

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is associated with an accentuated inflammatory response to bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS), increased resting energy expenditure and a higher than expected prevalence of gastrointestinal and other malignancies. Read more

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

University of Leeds Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Biophotonic nanomaterials: developing new quantum dots and biomolecules towards a more complete use of the solar spectrum

Plants and other biological systems are a source of inspiration for nanotechnology and solar energy research because the early stages of photosynthesis have high quantum efficiency. Read more

Supervisors: Dr P.G. Adams, Dr K Critchley

28 June 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Evaluating the potential consequences of climate heating for Caspian seals and ecosystem services in the Caspian Sea

Supervisors: Dr S Goodman, Prof M Beger

The School of Biology invites applications from prospective postgraduate researchers who wish to commence study for a PhD in the academic year 2024/25. Read more

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

How do environmental cues affect reproduction?

Supervisors: Assoc Prof E.J. Duncan, Prof A Bretman

This project is available to self funded candidates only. The School of Biology invites applications from prospective postgraduate researchers who wish to commence study for a PhD in the academic year 2024/25. Read more

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

NIHR Leeds BRC: Utilising genetic and genomic predictors of vasculitis and disease/treatment complications for application in routine clinical practice

Supervisors: Prof A Morgan, Dr MM Iles, Dr R Mujica-Mota

There is substantial interest in using genetic biomarkers to predict those most at risk of disease and treatment complications; this is one of the focuses of Our Future Health, a national study aiming to recruit 5M participants ( https://ourfuturehealth.org.uk/ ). Read more

26 May 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Molecular mechanisms of pacemaker (sinus node) dysfunction in ageing, heart failure and athletes

Supervisors: Dr M Hussain, Dr C Willis, Prof MR Boyett

Research Group: Chemistry and Biosciences

The heart’s pacemaker, the sinus node, initiates the action potential that causes the heart to beat, and the atrioventricular node conducts the action potential from the atria to the ventricles, the pumping chambers of the heart. Read more

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Characterisation of adrenoceptor and muscarinic receptor subtypes coupled to potassium channels in chondrocytes from bovine cartilage

Supervisors: Dr M Hussain, Dr M Katsikogianni, Dr N Javid

Research Group: Chemistry and Biosciences

Several outward potassium currents have been identified in bovine chondrocytes (review Mobasheri et al. 2012). These include ATP-sensitive and a Calcium-activated potassium currents (Sanches & Lopez-Zapata, 2011). Read more

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Novel strategy for treatment of chronic wounds via multi-functional liposomal nanocarriers

Supervisors: Dr X Liu, Prof R Falconer

Research Group: Medicines Development and Pharmaceutical Sciences

A confounding issue of non-healing skin wounds is the presence of pathogenic bacteria, that protect themselves from conventional antibiotic treatments by encasing themselves within protective shields (biofilms). Read more

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Development of Naked Mole Rat Colonic Crypt Models to Use in the Search for Bowel Disease Preventatives

Supervisors: Dr S Shnyder, Prof S El-Khamisy

Research Group: Institute of Cancer Therapeutics

Diseases affecting the bowel such as colorectal cancer (CRC) and the inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease are major global healthcare challenges in the 21st century. Read more

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Virology: Unique Antiviral Therapy targeting Zika and Related Viruses

Supervisors: Dr S Griffin, Dr A Kalli, Dr C McKimmie

Zika Virus (ZIKV) has emerged as a new mosquito-borne threat to public health after the devastating South American outbreak. Read more

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Immunotherapy: Killing Cancer using Dead Virus

Supervisors: Dr S Griffin, Dr A Samson

It is now accepted that our immune systems can hold the key to treating otherwise incurable cancers. So-called “immunotherapy” is an increasingly common method of treating tumours, leading to impressive increases in patient responses. . Read more

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Clinical Gastroenterology: Investigation of Fidaxomicin Resistance Mechanisms in Clostridium difficile

Supervisors: Prof M Wilcox, Prof A O'Neill, Dr J Freeman, Dr I Moura

Clostridium difficile is a leading pathogen in healthcare-associated diarrheal infections. C. difficile has a plastic genome with multiple mobile genetic elements and recognized capacity to acquire genes involved in resistance and virulence. Read more

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only