Postgraduate Research Opportunities
Funded opportunities currently available within the Institute
- BBSRC Funded PhDs
- Circuit analysis of auditory perception
- Does Toll-like receptor 3 (TLR-3) activation modulate hippocampal function?
- EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Continuous Manufacturing and Crystallisation PhD Studentship
- Evaluation of a novel non-viral gene delivery system for brain targeting by intravenous administration
- Exploring Crystal Growth and Dissolution at the Nanoscale: Implications for Industrial-Scale Crystallisation
- Polymorphism and polymerisation at high pressure
- Ultrashort pulsed Raman lasers for multiphoton laser scanning microscopy
Other Projects available
Cardiovascular group
- Altered Calcium handling in adult cardiac myocytes and fibroblasts following cardiac hypertrophy
- Effects of MKP-2 KO in stroke: defining the role of MAPK cascade in pathogenesis of stroke
- 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 mitochondrial architecture and mobility in vascular disease
- Modulation of cardiac and cerebral CaMKII following cardiac hypertrophy
- Novel mediators of pulmonary hypertension induced by oxidative stress
Cell Biology group
- Cell biology project studying the regulation and roles of autophagy in cancer stem cells
- Characterisation of a novel mechanism for modulating the activity of pain-sensing nerves
- Characterisation of novel neurotransmitter signalling mechanism in urinary bladder smooth muscle
- Combination therapy for cancer treatment
- Effect of sphingosine kinases on the phosphoproteome, ubiquitinome and metabolome in cancer cells
- Identification of novel sphingosine kinase inhibitors from plants
- Modelling calcium waves in rat pulmonary vein: are they responsible for triggered cardiac arrhythmias
- Neuromuscular modulation by AMP-activated protein kinase
- Regulation of Huntingtin-Interacting Protein HIP14 and Links with Huntington’s Disease
- Super-resolution nonlinear optical microscopy
- The novel role of lysophosphatidylcholine in the modulation of pain sensing neurons
- The regulation and function of MKP-2 in endothelial cells
- Ultrashort pulsed Raman lasers for multiphoton laser scanning microscopy
Infection, Immunity and Microbiology group
- Characterisation of the Control of Inflammatory Responses in Human Immune cells
- Coordination of DNA replication with hyphal growth in the antibiotic producing bacterium Streptomyces coelicolor
- Determining immune control of infection versus autoimmunity
- Developing lab-on-a-chip tools to investigate individual immune cell interactions
- Development of a Mucosal Anti-fertility Device Based on Metal Nanoparticles
- Examining the antibiotic potential of legumes
- Investigating the distinct roles of dendritic cells and macrophages in immunity using a Leishmania mexicana infection model
- Mast cells in gastrointestinal helminth infection
- Measuring enzyme activity in Leishmania infected macrophages using SERRS
- New drugs for bad bugs: Manipulation of antibiotic biosynthetic pathways for better drugs
- Role of mast cells in inflammatory arthritis
- Targeting the nematode carbohydrate: phosphorylcholine transferase
- Understanding metabolic and genetic changes on scale translation of natural isolates
Medicine Use and Health group
Neuroscience group
- Cannabidiol: a constituent of cannabis with psychoactive properties?
- Circuit analysis of auditory perception
- Proteinase-activated receptor 2 (PAR2) as a target for the treatment of inflammation-related CNS disorders
- Proteinase-activated receptor 2 (PAR2): Are astrocytes responsible for PAR2-mediated actions within the CNS?
- State-dependent synchrony propagation in neural circuits
- Treating Parkinson’s disease
- Understanding Schizophrenia: From genes to neural systems to drug discovery
- Understanding the addictive properties of nicotine
Pharmaceutical Sciences group
- Can co-encapsulated antioxidant nanoparticles prevent cyclosporine side effects?
- Co-crystallisation at high pressure
- Does Toll-like receptor 3 (TLR-3) activation modulate hippocampal function?
- EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Continuous Manufacturing and Crystallisation PhD Studentship
- Evaluation of a novel non-viral gene delivery system for brain targeting by intravenous administration
- Exploring Crystal Growth and Dissolution at the Nanoscale: Implications for Industrial-Scale Crystallisation
- Low Density Lipoprotein based drug targeting
- 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
- Polymorphism and polymerisation at high pressure
- Polymorphism and polymerisation at high pressure
- Sustained release cytokine formulations for localised immunological stimulation
