2018

Belinda Ameyaw

Nuffield 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

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

Rishi Anand

Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics

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

Oxford Neuroscience

Testing theories of computation and learning in sensory cortex

Supervisors: Christopher Summerfield, Andrew Saxe, Adam Packer

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

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 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 

Eve Richardson

Department 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

Department of Psychiatry

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

Supervisors: Catherine Harmer, Susannah Murphy 

ellen taylor

Department of Experimental Psychology

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

Supervisors: Kate Nation, Margaret Snowling

Rosemary Walmsley

Department of Population Health

Nat Productivity Investment Fund Studentship (NPIF)

The association of wearable sensor measures of time use with cardiovascular disease

Supervisors: Aiden Doherty, Derrick Bennett