All Current Students

BEN AMIES-CULL

Nuffield Department of Population Health

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

SARAH ARMSTRONG

Oxford Neuroscience

DPhil project will be chosen at the end of the first year of studies.

Supervisors: TBC

TEHMINA BHARUCHA

Department 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

Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine

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 BOEHNING

Sir William Dunn School of Pathology

Cryo-EM imaging of phase separation in bacterial biofilms

Supervisors: Tanmay Bharat

SORCHA BOLTON

Department of Psychiatry

Evaluating the True Colours App for symptom monitoring and self-management in Bipolar Disorder

Supervisors: John Geddes, Katharine Saunders

ALICE BRANKIN

Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine

Predicting Resistance to Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Supervisors: Ann Walker, Philip Fowler

BETHANY CHARLTON

Nuffield 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

Department of Paediatrics

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 FERNANDES

Medical 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

TIMO FLESCH

Department of Experimental Psychology

Representation Learning for Continuous Task Performance

Supervisors: Christopher Summerfield, Andrew Saxe

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

EMILY GRAHAM

Sir William Dunn School of Pathology

Molecular mechanisms of genome stability and human disease

Supervisors: Dragana Ahel

JAN GROHN

Department of Experimental Psychology

Multi-task recurrent neural networks for choice

Supervisors: Matthew Rushworth, Nils Kolling

romain Guyon

Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine

Development of a single-dose vaccine technology using microfluidics as a production method

Supervisors: Anita Milicic, Adrian Hill, Eleanor Stride

SOPHIE HUGHES

Department of Oncology

Investigation of pancreatic immunology during progression of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

Supervisors: Eric O'Neill, Mads Gyrd-Hansen

MAGDA MARECKOVA

Nuffield Department of Women’s & Reproductive Health

Exploring endometrial cellular heterogeneity and its role in endometriosis using single-cell transcriptomics

Supervisors: Carl Heneghan, Karin Hellner, Krina Zondervan, Rebecca Dragovic

SONALI MUNSHAW

Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics

BASIGIN - A therapeutic target in Atherosclerosis via Thymosin β4

Supervisors: Nicola Smart, Paul Riley

LAURA OLBRICH

Department of Paediatrics

RaPaed TB – Evaluation of new diagnostics in paediatric tuberculosis (single-gate, double diagnostic study in the target population)

Supervisors: Andrew Pollard, Rinn Song, Norbert Heinrich, Timothy McHugh

Albert prats uribe

Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences 

Methods for observational risk-benefit studies of medical devices: an analysis of big data and simulation studies

Supervisors: Daniel Alhambra,Gary Collins, Mohammed Ali, Victoria Strauss

victoria root

Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Cognitive Modelling of Phantom Limb Pain: investigating the plausibility of a predictive coding framework to explain phantom limb pain

Supervisors: Irene Tracey, Tamar Makin

TEREZA RUZICKOVA

Department of Psychiatry

Implicit cognition as a marker of cognitive function in Parkinson’s disease and its treatment

Supervisors: Catherine Harmer, Susannah Murphy

carla schmidt

Department of Pharmacology 

Investigations on presynaptic NMDA receptors and a presynaptic feedback loop between NMDA receptors and SK-channels

Supervisors: Nigel Emptage

ellen taylor

Department of Experimental Psychology

Oral vs written exposure on reading of novel words: an eye-tracking study

Supervisors: Kate Nation, Margaret Snowling

Maryam Alkadimi

Department of Oncology

Establishment of an ex vivo precision-cut lung slice model for the evaluation of drug-radiation responses

Supervisors: Anderson Ryan

Hugo Benainous

Department of Oncology

Repair of DNA-damage induced by G-quadruplex stabilization in BRCA 1/2-deficient cells

Supervisors: Madalena Tarsounas, Anderson Ryan

Sebastian Birtles

Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics

Modulation of Sexual Behaviour by the Neuropeptide SIFamide

Supervisors: Stephen Goodwin

Briet Bjarkadottir

Nuffield Department of Women’s & Reproductive Health

Towards non-invasive fertility preservation: an investigation of the effect of chemotherapy on primordial follicles

Supervisors: Suzannah Williams, Sheila Lane

Miranda Buckle

Department of Paediatrics

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

Medical Sciences Doctoral Training Programme

DPhil in Neuroscience

Supervisors: Kevin Talbot, Ana Candalija

Athena Cavounidis

Department of Clinical Medicine

Dissecting anti-microbial pathways in Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome

Supervisors: Hans Uhlig, Fiona Powrie

Jenny Censin

Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine

From correlation to causation: metabolites and proteins in cardiometabolic disease

Supervisors: Cecilia Lindgren, Mark McCarthy, Michael Holmes

Giedre Cepukaityte

Department of Experimental Psychology

Short- and long-term memory functions in health and neurodegeneration

Supervisors: Kia Nobre, Nahidsadat Zokaei

Dimitra Dimou

Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (Radcliffe Department of Medicine)

The role of RUNX1 in MLL-AF4 leukaemia

Supervisors: Thomas Milne

Ruth Drury

Department of Paediatrics

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

Matthew Ellis

Department of Oncology

Cell Signalling in Cancer

Supervisors: Deborah Goberdhan, Valentine MacAuley

Kamran Gaba

Nuffield Department of Population Health

Identifying Optimal Pathways of Care in the Delivery of Carotid Interventions

Supervisors: Martin Landray, Richard Bulbulia, Alison Halliday, Prem Chana

Peregrine Green

Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics

Predictors of Cardiac Reverse Remodelling in Heart Failure

Supervisors: Neil Herring, Oliver Rider

Lilli Hahn

Sir William Dunn School of Pathology

Mechanisms of nuclear envelope reassembly

Supervisors: Pedro Carvalho

Andrew Harper

Radcliffe Department of Medicine

The genetic aetiology of hypertropic cardiomyopathy

Supervisors: Martin Farrall, Hugh Watkins, Anuj Goel

Cornelia Heuberger

Sir William Dunn School of Pathology

Antigen presentation and T cell regulation by intestinal epithelial cells

Supervisors: Kevin Maloy, Johanna Pott, Fiona Powrie

Ryan Hoyle

Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine

The role of CRTH2 + CD8 + T cells in severe asthma

Supervisors: Paul Klenerman, Ian Pavord, Luzheng Xue, Timothy Hinks

Patrick Inns

Department of Biochemistry

The Organisation and Dynamics of E. coli Outer Membrane Proteins

Supervisors: Klenthis Kleanthous, Shabaz Mohammed

ALINA JANNEY

Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences

Unravelling the role of the IL-23 axis in colorectal cancer

Supervisors: Fiona Powrie, Elizabeth Mann

MATTHEW JAQUIERY

Department of Experimental Psychology

Exploring social metacognition

Supervisors: Nicholas Yeung

Peter Kilfeather

Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics

Examination of gene expression using translating ribosome affinity purification in genetic models of Parkinson’s disease

Supervisors: Richard Wade-Martins, Natalie Connor-Robson

Anna Kordala

Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics

Targeting epigenetic proteins to treat Spinal Muscular Atrophy

Supervisors: Matthew Wood, Suzan Hammond

Jennifer Lane

Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences

The epidemiology of common hand conditions

Supervisors: Dominic Furniss, Jane Green, Daniel Alhambra

Shudong Li

Department of Oncology

Characterisation of DNA-Protein Crosslink Repair, a novel DNA repair pathway for protection from accelerated ageing and cancer

Supervisors: Kristijan Ramadan, Benedikt Kessler

Helena Meyer-Berg

Radcliffe Department of Medicine

Gene Therapy for Surfactant Disorders

Supervisors: Stephen Hyde, Deborah Gill

Jack Mills

Department of Oncology

Nuclear IGF-1R as a potential target for precision cancer medicine

Supervisors: Valentine Macaulay, Ian Mills

Lisa Nobis

Department of Psychiatry

Depression and Apathy in Parkinson's disease

Supervisors: Clare Mackay, Masud Husain

Caitlin O'Brien-Ball

Radcliffe Department of Medicine

Investigating triggering events in T&B Lymphocytes

Supervisors: Simon Davis, Ana Mafalda Santos

Thomas Reed

Department of Experimental Psychology

Adaptive non-invasive brain stimulation

Supervisors: Roi Kadosh, Mark Woolrich

Carolina Reis

Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Thalamocortical interactions: a theoretical, analytical and clinical overview

Supervisors: Peter Brown, Hayriye Cagnan, Andrew Sharott

Jagoda Rokicka

Department of Biochemistry

PARP-dependent DNA damage repair

Supervisors: Nicholas Larkin

Aislin Sheldon

Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Understanding degeneration and the capacity for reorganisation in the adult human visual cortex

Supervisors: Holly Bridge, Susan Downes

Ann-Marie Shorrocks

Department of Oncology

A DNA repair interactome based on linear peptide motifs

Supervisors: Andrew Blackford, Peter McHugh

Inna Thalmann

Nuffield Department of Population Health

Determinants of use of medications for the secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease

Supervisors: Borislava Mihaylova, Iryna Schlackow, Alastair Gray, David Preiss

Sandeep Unwith

Department of Oncology

Aging-associated changes in the tumour microenvironment determine cancer progression and metastasis

Supervisors: Adrian Harris

Alexander Walker

Sir William Dunn School of Pathology

Insights into the mechanism of viral genome replication by the influenza A virus RNA-dependent RNA polymerase

Supervisors: Ervin Fodor

Catherine Wormald

Nuffield 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

Liam Young

Radcliffe Department of Medicine

Metabolic assessment of perfused livers using magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy

Supervisors: Christopher Rodgers, Constantin Coussios, Peter Friend