Funded opportunities currently available within the Institute
- BBSRC DTP Studentships
- EPSRC DTC in Continuous Manufacturing and Crystallisation
- Exploring crystal growth and dissolution at the nanoscale: Implications for Industrial-Scale Crystallisation
- Nonlinear optical mesoscopy
- Physical analysis of solid solution formulations
- Protein Aggregation and Neurodegeneration
- University CASE studentship in Neuroscience with Eli Lilly
- Vein graft success depends on tissue hypoxia modulating TLR and PLC gamma
Other Projects available
Cardiovascular group
- CaMKII modulation of inflammatory signalling in cardiac hypertrophy
- Cellular mechanisms underlying P2 receptor-mediated vasoconstriction in pulmonary arteries
- Characterisation of novel neurotransmitter signalling mechanism in urinary bladder smooth muscle
- Characterisation of the responses of the pulmonary vasculature to contractile agonists and hypoxia using a novel preparation
- Endocannabinoids Effects on Stem Cell- Based Recovery After Experimental Stroke: Mechanistic Insight into the Role of Calcium/Calmodulin dependent protein Kinase II
- Imaging changes in vascular mitochondrial architecture and dynamics in ageing
- Immunomodulation of Stem Cells in Stroke
- Mitochondria role in regulating proliferation and apoptosis; A novel target for site directed drug therapy in pulmonary hypertension
- Oestrogen is a Therapeutic Target for Improving Stem Cell-Based Therapy for Stroke
- Vein graft success depends on tissue hypoxia modulating TLR and PLC gamma
Cell Biology group
- Cell biology project studying the regulation and roles of autophagy in cancer stem cells
- Effect of sphingosine 1-phosphate on the phosphoproteome and ubiquitinome of mammalian cells
- Identification of novel sphingosine kinase activators from plants
- Nonlinear optical mesoscopy
- Novel roles for MAP kinase phosphatase-2 in regulating cell division
- Protein Aggregation and Neurodegeneration
- The role of NIK in endothelial cell inflammation and cell cycle progression
- The role of sphingosine kinases in regulating the metabolome of fibroblasts
Infection, Immunity and Microbiology group
- Bio-imaging to see the benefit of being a biofilm
- Characterisation of the Control of Inflammatory Responses in Human Immune cells by bioactive lipids
- Comparative genomics and metabolomics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Coordination of chromosome segregation with growth and development in the antibiotic producing bacterium, Streptomyces coelicolor
- Coordination of DNA replication with hyphal growth in the antibiotic producing bacterium Streptomyces coelicolor
- Mast cells in gastrointestinal helminth infection
- New drugs for bad bugs: synthetic biology of antibiotic biosynthetic pathways
- Role of bacterial infections in gastrointestinal nematode induced enteropathy
- Role of mast cells in inflammatory arthritis
- Role of mast cells in the development of obesity
- Signalling in the human parasite Leishmania
- Targeting the nematode carbohydrate: phosphorylcholine transferase
Neuroscience group
- Brain systems for reward and reinforcement: understanding the psychoactive properties of nicotine
- Characterisation of a novel mechanism for modulating the activity of pain-sensing nerves
- Characterisation of a novel mechanism for modulating the activity of pain-sensing nerves
- Cholinergic arousal systems and sensory perception
- Determining cell type expression and stimulus activation properties of Mkp2/Dusp4 in the mouse brain
- Functional analysis of motifs in the brain: the thalamocortical loop
- Molecular Dissection of the Links Between Neurodegeneration and Protein Palmitoylation
- Treating Parkinson’s disease
- Understanding cognition through manipulation of FXYD6 gene expression
- Understanding Schizophrenia: From genes to neural systems to drug discovery
- Understanding the role of the reticular thalamus in schizophrenia
- University CASE studentship in Neuroscience with Eli Lilly
Pharmaceutical Sciences group
- Can co-encapsulated antioxidant nanoparticles prevent cyclosporine side effects?
- Design of nanosystems for local and systemic delivery of drugs
- EPSRC DTC in Continuous Manufacturing and Crystallisation
- Exploring crystal growth and dissolution at the nanoscale: Implications for Industrial-Scale Crystallisation
- Marine Symbionts and Terrestrial Endophytes for Industrial Biotechnology of Novel Antibiotics
- Natural antibiotics from the beehive
- Optimization of a novel non-viral gene delivery system for tumour targeting by intravenous administration
- Optimization of the anti-cancer therapeutic efficacy of tocotrienol and other nutraceuticals by entrapment within novel tumour-targeted delivery systems
- Physical analysis of solid solution formulations
- Probing mucoadhesive interactions
- The investigation of unilamellar vesicles for vaccine drug delivery
