Systems and Mechanisms to Deliver Efficacious Wound Treatments to Equines

The School of Science and Technology at Nottingham Trent University offers a fully funded 3-year PhD studentship suitable for an experimental biologist, material scientist or engineer. You will work in the School of Science and Technology, acquiring knowledge, skills and expertise in Biomaterials, Medical Devices and the effect these materials have on a patient and more specifically a patient’s cells. The patients in this research are equines although the research may also be applied to other animals. Equines standout as being a mammal in which wound healing is particularly slow or problematic. We are proposing to develop treatment procedures and in doing so determine the viability, efficacy, safety to advance treatments in equines.

Research aims; the research will take already existing cold plasma wound treatment systems and test the hypothesis that these systems can be safely applied to equine cells and then wounds and wound healing accelerators, or systemic treatments applied using this approach to significantly enhance the healing of equines.

Nottingham Trent University is renowned for leading edge research, strong links with industry and its excellent teaching that shape lives and society. The School’s leading-edge research was recognised by a Queen’s Award for Further and Higher Education in 2015. The University is making multi-million pound investments in both buildings and equipment at the Clifton campus, an award-winning “green” campus, where you will be based. You will be part of the wider postgraduate community within the School, with opportunities for multidisciplinary collaboration with experts in Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Engineering, Physics and Nanotechnology.

Specific qualifications/subject areas required of the applicants for this project
Entrants must have a first/undergraduate Honours degree, with an Upper Second Class or a First Class grade, in Biology, Material Science, Chemistry or a relevant subject. Entrants with a Lower Second Class grade at first degree must also have a postgraduate Masters Degree at Merit.

Panel members who will perform shortlisting

Chair: Prof John Hunt [Email Address Removed]
Panel member 1: Dr Carol Hall [Email Address Removed]
Panel member 2: Dr Jeremy Kemp-Symonds [Email Address Removed]

Interviews are likely to take place on the following dates: 08/01/2018 to 19/01/2018

This studentship competition is open to applicants who wish to study for a PhD on a full-time basis only. The studentship will pay UK/EU fees (currently set at £4,195 for 2017/18 and are revised annually) and provide a maintenance stipend linked to the RCUK rate (this is revised annually and is currently set at £14,553 for the academic year 2017/18) for up to three years. Applications from non-EU students are welcome, but a successful non-EU candidate would be responsible for paying the difference between non-EU and UK/EU fees. (Fees for 2017/18 are £12,900 for non-EU students and £4,195 for UK/EU students). The studentships will be expected to commence in October 2018.