All Current Students
Yasmina Al Ghadban
Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship Machine learning and translational approaches to personalised care for women with gestational diabetes Supervisors: Jane Hirst, Nerys Astbury, Lucy MacKillop, Huiqi Lu |
Kei Landin
Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship Development of a bioelectronic system for applying chronobiology to improve the treatment of neurological disorders Supervisors: Timothy Denison, Colin Espie |
Jennifer Astley
Exploit the impact of disease-causing HLA variants on cellular phenotypes Supervisors: Yang Luo, Luke Jostins-Dean |
Kim LÓpez I GÜell
Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship Leveraging real world data to characterise the long-term impact of COVID-19 Supervisors: Daniel Prieto Alhambra, Sara Khalid, Martí Català, Annika Jodicke |
Anna CarlqvistNuffield Department of Population Health Growth and neurodevelopmental trajectories among HIV-exposed uninfected children Unit: National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit Supervisors: Joris Hemelaar |
Kiran Manku
Good mental healthcare in the context of a pluriverse of wellbeing Supervisors: Catherine Molyneux, Caesar Atuire |
Robert ClarkDepartment of Biochemistry Microbiology and Systems Biology focusing on computational microbiology Supervisors: Syma Khalid, Klenthis Kleanthous |
Lorenzo Mazzaschi
Auditory Neuroscience - The architecture and principles governing neural responses to natural sounds Supervisors: Andrew King, Nicol Harper, Benjamin Willmore |
John EraifejNuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences Bioinspired closed-loop deep brain stimulation for disorders of decision-making Supervisors: Alexander Green, Matthew Rushworth, Huiling Tan |
Amy McCall
Panic attacks and panic disorder in adolescence: improving understanding, treatment outcomes and support in schools Supervisors: Felicity Waite, Polly Waite |
Helena Harpham
Function of R-loops in health and disease Supervisors: Natalia Gromak, Nicholas Proudfoot, Christopher Norbury |
Morgan Mitchell
Examining the effect and clinical relevance of targeted memory reactivation during sleep for stroke rehabilitation interventions Supervisors: Heidi Johansen-Berg, Timothy Denison, Melanie Fleming |
Alexander HassonDepartment of Oncology Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship Mechanistic Modelling of Multitargeted Therapeutics Supervisors: Eric O'Neill |
Nithishwer Mouroug Anand
Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship Improving Rational Drug Design for Membrane Targets with AI and Advanced Simulation Supervisors: Syma Khalid, Philip Biggin |
Khuluud Hussein
Enhancing anti-tumour T cell function by controlled inhibition of checkpoint receptor signalling Supervisors: Ricardo Fernandes, Tao Dong |
Rebecca Smausz
Characterising the fronto-cortical dopamine and serotonin dynamics underlying internal model-based decision-making Supervisors: Mark Walton |
Adam Khan-Qureshi
Interrogating the Epstein-Barr Virus glycoprotein gB as a potential immunogen for vaccine development Supervisors: Alexander Douglas, Adrian Hill |
Zohar Steinberg
The role of TCF-1 in early fate decisions of memory T cells Supervisors: Ronjon Chakraverty, Adam Wilkinson
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Stelios Koukouravas
The regulation of Mre11-Rad50-Nbs1 (MRN) complex disassembly in response to ionising radiation Supervisors: Kristijan Ramadan |
Kylie Yeung
Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship Development and implementation of high-resolution imaging techniques and post-processing methods for hyperpolarised magnetic resonance imaging Supervisors: Fergus Gleeson, Damian Tyler
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LAURA BAILEYRadcliffe Department of Medicine Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship conversion Title: TBC Supervisors: David Ray, Noelia Martinez Sanchez, Matthew Baxter, Ana Isabel Dias Neto Domingos |
Desire Habonimana
Preparing for Paediatric Service Redesign (PREPARE) in a Low-Income Country: exploring the needs and capacity of producing paediatric workforce in BDI Supervisors: Michael English, Catia Nicodemo |
ADRIANNA BANDUCCI-KARP
Viral manipulation of host cell biology for assembly, secretion and immune evasion Supervisors: Sumana Sanyal, Pedro Carvalho
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Anisa Hajizadeh
The effect of dietary interventions in treating essential hypertension in primary care Supervisors: Paul Aveyard, Dimitrios Koutoukidis, Rachna Aziz Begh |
OLIVER BEAVEN
Title: TBC Supervisors: Ketan Patel, Ian Pavord |
EMILY HYDE
Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship conversion The Role of Vitamin D in the Development and Prevention of Preeclampsia and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Supervisors: Manu Vatish |
JASMINE BLANE
Translating sophisticated remote cognitive assessments for the Oxford Brain Health Centre clinical population Supervisors: Clare Mackay |
AURELIJA IPPOLITO
Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship conversion The role of 5-HT receptor biased agonism in psychedelic drug action Supervisors: Trevor Sharp, Grant Churchill |
DANIELE COTTON
Understanding the importance of location within the tumour-bone microenvironment Field: Bone Oncology Supervisors: Claire Edwards, James Edwards, Srinivasa Rao Rao |
RACHEL JONES
Projects involving a diverse combination of biophysical and structural techniques, focused on biochemistry of microbes Supervisors: Benjamin Berks, Richard Berry |
KATIE CROFT
Title: TBC Supervisors: Claus Nerlov, Paresh Vyas, Ruth Baker
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MEREDITH LESTON
Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship Real-time benefit-risk assessment of vaccine exposure across a nationally representative primary care sentinel network Supervisors: Simon de Lusignan, Richard Hobbs, Mark Joy |
CONSTANTINOS DEMETRIOU
Investigating the role of inflammation in pancreatic cancer Supervisors: Shisong Jiang, Eric O'Neill |
SAM MURRAY
Title: TBC Supervisors: Eleanor Barnes, Susanna Dunachie, Paul Klenerman |
ALICE EVANS
Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship Optimising CAR-T efficacy in pancreatic cancer with bioengineered scaffolds and immune agonists Supervisors: Hua Ye, Eric O'Neill |
BETHAN O'CONNOR
Dopamine transporter regulation of short-term plasticity in dopamine release Supervisors: Stephanie Cragg |
NATASHA FISHER-PEARSON
The Microbiome and Vaccine Response Supervisors: Jethro Johnson, Mark Coles, Claire Pearson, Paola Cicconi |
SAMUEL PONTINGDepartment of Experimental Psychology Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship Enhancing health and well-being across the lifespan using bio-informed lighting in the built environment Supervisors: Hannah Smithson, Manuel Spitschan |
DANNY GOLD
Studying the role of Aurora A and Protein Phosphatase 6 in regulation of NDC80 during mitosis Supervisors: Francis Barr, Bela Novak |
JOEL QUINN
Investigation of immune checkpoint receptor activation as a strategy for treating retinal inflammation Supervisors: Kanmin Xue |
DONGYU GONG
How Does Memory Guide Attention in Suppressing Distractors? Towards the Understanding of Its Neural Mechanisms Supervisors: Kia Nobre |
ESRA SENGUL
Unrevealing the Mystery of Heart Regeneration with Astyanax mexicanus Supervisors: Mathilda Mommersteeg, Carolyn Carr
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AYAKA SHINOZAKI
Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship conversion Development of Novel RF Coils for Hyperpolarized MRI Supervisors: Damian Tyler, James Grist |
Gina Wren
Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship Using Behavioural Insights to Improve Effectiveness of Digital Weight Loss Interventions’ Supervisors: Susan Jebb, Dimitrios Koutoukidis, Jadine Scragg |
Femke AhlersNuffield Department of Population Health Using genomic epidemiology to inform vaccination policy and reduce the global burden of meningitis Supervisors: Angela Brueggemann Lukas BraunDepartment of Experimental Psychology Theory of Deep Learning: Dynamics of Continual Learning
Supervisors: Andrew Saxe, Christopher Summerfield Henry BrigdenDepartment of Oncology Chimeric Antigen B Cell (CAR B Cell) Therapy for Targeted Therapeutic and Prophylactic Vaccination Supervisors: Simon Draper, Len Seymour
Katarzyna ChwaleniaDepartment of Paediatrics Effect of myonuclear domain structure on therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Supervisors: Matthew Wood
Max CraneNuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences Molecular Determinants of Neurodegeneration in Progressive Multiple Sclerosis
Supervisors: Gabriele De Luca Delaney Dominey-FoyNuffield Department of Clinical Medicine Characterising Cancer Specific Cytotoxic T-cells in patients with Malignant Pleural Effusion (MPE) Supervisors: Tao Dong, Yanchun Peng Solomon English
New approaches to vaccine development against Epstein Barr Virus and Rabies Supervisors: Alexander Douglas, Simon Draper Oliver FeatherstoneNuffield Department of Clinical Medicine Ubiquitin signalling in innate immune responses to pathogens and chronic inflammation in cancer
Supervisors: Pedro Moura Alves, Mads Gyrd-Hansen Luisa GullinoPharmacology The role of glutamate co-release in 5-HT neurons Supervisors: David Bannerman, Trevor Sharp
Ruofan Han
Gene therapy for Leber Congenital Amaurosis Supervisors: Peter Issa, Robert MacLaren Susannah HollimanRadcliffe Department of Medicine
Switching genes on and off in erythropoiesis
Supervisors: Douglas Higgs Robert HorsleyDepartment of Oncology
Investigating how cells repair DNA damage during mitosis
Supervisors: Andrew Blackford Alissa HummerDepartment of Statistics Structural Bioinformatics Computational design of therapeutic antibodies binding GPCRs in a conformation-dependent manner Supervisors: Charlotte Deane Naroa Ibarra AizpuruaDepartment of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics The role of astrocytes and microglia in PD pathogenesis in specific GBA N370S patient iPSC-derived neuro-glial co-cultures
Supervisors: Nora Bengoa-Vergniory, Sally Cowley, Richard Wade-Martins Alina KurjanNuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences Defining the signatures of diseased and aging human tendons to guide tendon repair in vitro (molecular and computational biology, tissue engineering Supervisors: Matthew Baldwin, Sarah Snelling Cameron LangDepartment of Oncology Investigating IGF-1 as a cancer risk factor Supervisors: Valentine Macaulay
Wojciech Lason
Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship Integrating human functional genomics, epigenomics and transcriptomics to accelerate drug discovery for precision medicine in asthma Supervisors: Timothy Hinks, Julian Knight |
IOANA-WILHELMINA LUCINESCU
Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship Understanding common genomic pathways between endometriosis and other chronic pain conditions and their functional significance Supervisors: Nilufer Rahmioglu, Katy Vincent, Krina Zondervan Anezka Macey-DareDepartment of Pharmacology How maternal antibodies raised against receptors in the neonatal brain can give rise to antibody-mediated brain disorders Supervisors: Daniel Anthony, Tommas Ellender Olaa Mohamed-Ahmed
Epidemiology of autoimmune disease in Chinese adults Supervisors: Fiona Bragg, Zheng-Ming Chen, Christiana Kartsonak Patrick PflughauptRadcliffe Department of Medicine Comparative Analyses and Genomic Sequence-Only Prediction of DNA Breakpoints via Gradient Boosting Machines and Deep Learning Supervisors: Peter McHugh, Aleksandr Sahakyan Klara PileticNuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences Are metabolites generated by the microbiota key to a young immune system? Molecular regulation of neutrophil responses in inflammation Supervisors: Ghada Alsaleh, Fiona Powrie, Anna Simon Andreea RaslescuDepartment of Psychiatry Developing a neurocognitive model of the antidepressant effects of ketamine Supervisors: Catherine Harmer, Susannah Murphy Jasmine ReeseNuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship MALDI Imaging for Spatially Resolved Brain Tissue Analytics Supervisors: Olaf Ansorge, Roman Fischer Annabell Roberti
Anti-inflammatory actions of metabolites on macrophages and microglia Supervisors: David Greaves, Ulrike Gruneberg HUSSAM ROSTOM
Characterisation of hormonal and metabolic changes during lactation Supervisors: Fadil Hannan, Joanna Poulton, Taha Elajnaf Leora SeviDepartment of Experimental Psychology Knowledge of individuals as a constraining factor in an integrative hierarchical predictive account of emotion identification and its deficits Supervisors: Geoffrey Bird Kathryn SmithMedical Sciences Doctoral Training Centre
DPhil in Ion Channels and Disease
Supervisors: Christopher Norbury Lisa SpieringDepartment of Experimental Psychology
Cognitive and neural mechanisms of credit assignment
Supervisors: Matthew Rushworth, Jacqueline Scholl Anandagopal SrinivasanNuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences Epigenomic basis of drug resistance in Multiple Myeloma Supervisors: Sarah Gooding, Udo Oppermann Sven TurkaljRadcliffe Department of Medicine Molecular basis for clonal advantage in myeloid blood cancers Supervisors: Paresh Vyas Sophie TwiggerDepartment of Oncology Investigation of the contribution of redox stress to the therapy resistance of cells experiencing cycling oxygen levels Supervisors: Stuart Conway, Ester Hammond Isaac WaltonRadcliffe Department of Medicine
Building the skull - normal and abnormal development Supervisors: Stephen Twigg, Andrew Wilkie Justin WormaldNuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences Understanding and Preventing Surgical Site Infection following Surgery for Hand and Wrist Trauma Supervisors: Jonathan Cook, Matthew Costa, Daniel Prieto Alhambra, Jeremy Rodrigues |
SARAH ASHCROFT-JONESDepartment of Experimental Psychology Decision confidence as a function of multiple uncertainty judgments: An investigation of Bayesian inference in decision-making and learning Supervisors: Nicholas Yeung
sara bandiera
Engineering and validating polarised organoids: Modelling complex long-range brain interactions by directional morphogen delivery Supervisors: Zoltan Molnar, William James
Lampros Bisdounis
Sleep and circadian neuroscience in psychiatric disorders DPhil title: Sleep and circadian rhythm disruption in bipolar disorder Supervisors: Simon Kyle, Katharine Saunders, Colin Espie
FEDERICO CASONuffield Department of Clinical Medicine Investigation of therapeutic applications of CRISPR technology for the treatment of the Alzheimer's Disease Supervisors: Benjamin Davies
Charlie CookDepartment of Biochemistry Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship Using AI to Drive Drug Discovery for Membrane Protein Targets Supervisors: Philip Biggin
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William McGuinnessDepartment of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship Targeting TFEB and TFE3 in iPS-derived Dopaminergic neurons to correct autophagic/lysosomal deficits in Parkinson's Disease Supervisors: Richard Wade-Martins
MOSCHO MICHALOPOULOU
Diet, weight management and gestational diabetes Supervisors: Susan Jebb, Dimitrios Koutoukidis
DAAN PAGET
The pathology of traumatic brain injury and the role of sub-populations of extracellular vesicles Supervisors: Daniel Anthony
Keanu PaphitiDepartment of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics Development of in vitro 3D white adipose cell culture models for investigating white adipose cell biology and genetics of fat distribution Supervisors: Roger Cox
MALITHA RATNAWEERA
A Sting in the Tail for Cancer Supervisors: Peter McHugh, Adrian Harris
EMILE ROBERTS
Mechanisms safe-guarding genome integrity during cell division Supervisors: Ulrike Gruneberg
Jacob Robson-TullSir William Dunn School of Pathology Structural studies of ER-associated protein quality control mechanisms Supervisors: Susan Lea, Pedro Carvalho
VERENA SARRAZIN
Cognitive neurostimulation as an antidepressant strategy? Supervisors: Michael Browning, Jacinta O'Shea
JUDITH SAYERS
DPhil in Chromosome and Developmental Biology Supervisors: Paul Riley, Xin Sun Lorika Shkreli
Towards an integrated neuroscientific understanding of anxiety: Growth factors as underlying anxiety vulnerability markers Supervisors: Andrea Reinecke
REBECCA TOOZE
Identification of pathogenic small nucleotide variants in craniosynostosis patients Supervisors: Andrew Wilkie, Stephen Twigg
BJÖRN VAHSEN
Understanding the role of inflammation in the pathogenesis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Supervisors: Martin Turner, Elizabeth Gray
Karen Wendt
Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship An Enhanced Transcranial Magnetic Stimulator for Advancing Clinical Neuroscience and Minimally-Invasive Brain Therapies Supervisors: Timothy Denison, Jacinta O'Shea
Hanna Willis
Combining brain stimulation and rehabilitation to improve visual function in hemianopia due to stroke Supervisors: Kathryn Watkins, Holly Bridge |
Belinda AmeyawNuffield Department of Clinical Medicine Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship Role of NRF2 in oxidative stress pathophysiology of diabetes kidney disease Supervisors: John Todd, Nicola Beer, Katherine Bull BEN AMIES-CULL
Non-communicable disease modelling: Estimating cost-effectiveness of interventions for non-communicable disease prevention at the Local Authority level Supervisors: Pete Scarborough, Jane Wolstenholme, Linda Cobiac
Rishi Anand
Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship Probing presynaptic regulators of dopamine to identify new opportunities for therapy in Parkinson's disease Supervisors: Stephanie Cragg, Katherine Brimblecombe
SARAH ARMSTRONG
Testing theories of computation and learning in sensory cortex Supervisors: Christopher Summerfield, Andrew Saxe, Adam Packer
TEHMINA BHARUCHADepartment of Biochemistry Protein promise? Application of mass spectrometry-based proteomics techniques to identify cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for diagnosing suspected central nervous system infections - a focus on Japanese encephalitis virus infection Supervisors: Nicole Zitzmann, Paul Nicholas Newton
CLAIRE BLACKLOCK
Examining the potential for expanding coverage of neonatal care in low and middle income countries through task shifting and task sharing Supervisors: Michael English, Lisa Hinton, Jacob McKnight
JAN BOEHNINGSir William Dunn School of Pathology Cryo-EM imaging of phase separation in bacterial biofilms Supervisors: Tanmay Bharat
SORCHA BOLTON
Evaluating the True Colours App for symptom monitoring and self-management in Bipolar Disorder Supervisors: John Geddes, Katharine Saunders
ALICE BRANKIN
Predicting Resistance to Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Supervisors: Ann Walker, Philip Fowler
BETHANY CHARLTONNuffield Department of Clinical Medicine Immunological and genetic correlates of delayed HIV disease progression in children with perinatally-acquired HIV-1 infection, Harare, Zimbabwe Supervisors: Sarah Rowland-Jones, Louis-Marie Yindom
katherine emary
The efficacy and immune response to an oral live-attenuated Salmonella enterica serovar Paratyphi A vaccine, CVD 1902 Supervisors: Andrew Pollard, Richard Moxon, Calman MacLennan, Jennifer Hill
JOAO fERREIRA FERNANDESMedical Sciences Doctoral Training Centre DPhil in Infection, Immunology and Translational Medicine. DPhil project will be chosen at the end of the first year of studies. Supervisors: Andrew Hassan, Stephen Uphoff
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JONATHAN GAMWELL
Radcliffe Department of Medicine
Brown adipose tissue WNT signalling as a therapeutic target for obesity and type 2 diabetes
Supervisors: Leanne Hodson, Katherine Pinnick
HOSSAIN DELOWAR AKTHER
Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship
Function of CD1 and MR1 restricted T-cells in the gutIndustrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship
Supervisors: Paul Klenerman, Christian Willberg, Carolina Arancibia-Carcamo, Marco Lepore, David Cole
EMILY GRAHAM
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology
Molecular mechanisms of genome stability and human disease
Supervisors: Dragana Ahel JAN GROHNDepartment of Experimental Psychology Multi-task recurrent neural networks for choice Supervisors: Matthew Rushworth, Nils Kolling
romain Guyon
Development of a single-dose vaccine technology using microfluidics as a production method Supervisors: Anita Milicic, Adrian Hill, Eleanor Stride
SOPHIE HUGHESDepartment of Oncology Investigation of pancreatic immunology during progression of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma Supervisors: Eric O'Neill, Mads Gyrd-Hansen
MAGDA MARECKOVA
Exploring endometrial cellular heterogeneity and its role in endometriosis using single-cell transcriptomics Supervisors: Carl Heneghan, Karin Hellner, Krina Zondervan, Rebecca Dragovic Eve RichardsonDepartment of Statistics Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship Computational methods for rapid structural modelling of antigen-antibody interactions to improve identification of antigen-specific antibodies form Ig-seq repertoire data
Supervisors: Charlotte Deane, Dominic Kelly TEREZA RUZICKOVA
Implicit cognition as a marker of cognitive function in Parkinson’s disease and its treatment Supervisors: Catherine Harmer, Susannah Murphy ellen taylorDepartment of Experimental Psychology Oral vs written exposure on reading of novel words: an eye-tracking study Supervisors: Kate Nation, Margaret Snowling
Rosemary Walmsley
Nat Productivity Investment Fund Studentship (NPIF) The association of wearable sensor measures of time use with cardiovascular disease
Supervisors: Aiden Doherty, Derrick Bennett
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Miranda Buckle
Multi-modal characterisation of the neonatal pain response during retinopathy of prematurity screening and treatment Supervisors: Rebeccah Slater, Chetan Patel and Caroline Hartley Emily Carroll
Investigating mechanisms of TDP-43 toxicity in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Supervisors: Kevin Talbot, Ana Candalija Ruth Drury
Understanding Host Epigenetic changes to Salmonella Typhi Exposure and Infection in the context of a Human Challenge Model Supervisors: Andrew Pollard, Irina Mohorianu, Daniel O'Connor
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ANNA KORDALA
Nat Productivity Investment Fund Studentship (NPIF) Targeting epigenetic proteins to treat Spinal Muscular Atrophy Supervisors: Matthew Wood, Suzan Hammond Jagoda RokickaDepartment of Biochemistry Nat Productivity Investment Fund Studentship (NPIF) PARP-dependent DNA damage repair Supervisors: Nicholas Larkin Sandeep UnwithDepartment of Oncology Aging-associated changes in the tumour microenvironment determine cancer progression and metastasis Supervisors: Adrian Harris Catherine WormaldNuffield Department of Clinical Medicine Identification of novel CD4 and CD8 T cell epitopes for targeting in HIV-1 vaccine design Supervisors: Persephone Borrow, Nicola Ternette
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