Goodger and Schorstein Scholarship for Postdoctoral Researchers in Medical Sciences
Goodger and Schorstein Scholarships are awarded to assist research in Medical Sciences. They are open to Postdoctoral Researchers from any department/institute of the Medical Sciences Division.
Applicants must have completed their DPhil (at any Higher Education Institution) at the time of application and are required to work primarily in units run by the University of Oxford within the Medical Sciences Division. Candidates may apply for funds to cover staff costs (except their own salary), consumables or project expenses. The number, length and the level of the awards is at the discretion of the Board of Management. Awarded scholarships are typically in the range £10,000 - £12,000. Scholarships may be tenable with other posts subject to the approval of the Board.
HOW TO APPLY
Apply now using the IRAMS system via the Medical Sciences Internal Fund: Pump-priming scheme application.
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Previous awards
Previous recipients of the Goodger and Schorstein Scholarship for Postdoctoral Researchers in Medical Sciences:
Congratulations to all awardees on their success.
| Applicant | Department | Title | Amount Awarded |
| Covill-Cooke, Christian | Biochemistry | A search for the cardiolipin-phospholipase in human mitochondria | £9,528 |
| Meng, Yiran | Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine | Enhancing NK cell expansion from umbilical cord blood stem cells by epigenetic reprogramming | £10,000 |
| Shigemori, Kay | Oncology | Understanding the role of tertiary lymphoid structures in lung cancer prevention | £10,000 |
| Applicant | Department | Title | Amount Awarded |
| Chao, Ying-Chi | Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics | PDE4D9 cardiac Troponin I interaction: A potential new target for diastolic dysfunction. | £10,000 |
| Schuller, Marion | Pathology Dunn School (BV) | Screening for the first inhibitors against DarG macrodomain as novel antibiotics for Mycobacterium tuberculosis | £10,000 |
| Phyu, Su Myat | Department of Oncology | Characterizing of cancer associated fibroblasts in BRCA deficient cancers | £10,000 |
| Applicant | Department | Title | Amount Awarded |
| Zhu, Kang | Dunn School of Pathology | Elucidating the antiviral role of PARP10 against Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) | £10,000 |
| Swegen, Aleona | Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health | Investigating metabolic flexibility and DNA damage in primordial stage oocytes to improve oocyte preservation strategies | £9,000 |
| Wang, Guanlin | RDM (WIMM) | Application of spatial transcriptomics to potential novel treatment targets in myelofibrosis detected using SCINDY, a novel computational pipeline to identify cell-cell interactions | £10,000 |
| Gupta, Vandana | Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences | Development of multiplex RT-QuIC assay for the early detection of dementia: step towards personalized medicine | £10,000 |
| Bose, Samuel | Department of Pharmacology | Calcium-Stimulated Adenylyl Cyclases in the Cardiac Atria: The role of AC1 and AC8 in the response to Gq-coupled receptor activation. | £9,102.70 |
| Mikulski, Pawel | Department of Biochemistry | Discovering mechanisms of interferon-mediated trained immunity by chemical inhibitor screening | £10,000 |
| Kandzija, Neva | Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health | Determining the cargo of circulating placental extracellular vesicles in gestational diabetes mellitus | £9,820 |
| Applicant | Department | Title | Amount Awarded |
| Simões, Filipa | Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics | Deciphering heart muscle regeneration, one cell at a time | £9,968.54 |
| Applicant | Department | Title | Amount Awarded |
| Haythorne, Elizabeth | Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics | How does diabetes disrupt mitochondrial metabolism in pancreatic β-cells? | £10,000.00 |
| Mielczarek, Olga | NDM (Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics) | Investigation of direct chromatin contacts at genomic loci associated with Ankylosing Spondylitis susceptibility. | £10,000.00 |
| Dujardin, Gwendal | Dunn School of Pathology | Identifying a molecular mechanism underlying the disease phenotype in Retinitis Pigmentosa individuals carrying mutations in the spliceosomal gene, PRPF8 | £10,000.00 |
| Applicant | Department | Title | Amount Awarded |
| Knudsen, Jakob | RDM (OCDEM) | Glucagon at the nexus of glucose and fatty acid metabolism | £10,000.00 |
| Gorvin, Caroline | RDM (OCDEM) | Investigating the link between trafficking and signalling of the CalciumSensing Receptor (CaSR): Is intracellular calcium the key? | £7,186.42 |
| Gutowska-Owsiak, Danuta | Radcliffe Department of Medicine | Role of phospholipase A2 (PLA2) in presentation of peptide antigens. | £8,000.00 |
| Iqbal, Asif | Dunn School of Pathology | Do sugars direct monocytes in their pursuit of lipids? | £10,000.00 |
| Haenssgen, Marco | Nuffield Department of Medicine | Supply-induced demand for antibiotics among marginalised populations in Northern Thailand: Exploring the next frontier of antibiotic misuse to tackle antimicrobial resistance in Southeast Asia. | £9,380.00 |