2020 Students
Femke Ahlers
Nuffield Department of Population Health Using genomic epidemiology to inform vaccination policy and reduce the global burden of meningitis Supervisors: Angela Brueggemann Toby Bonvoisin
MSc Global Health Science and Epidemiology
Lukas Braun
Department of Experimental Psychology Theory of Deep Learning: Dynamics of Continual Learning
Supervisors: Andrew Saxe, Christopher Summerfield Henry Brigden
Department of Oncology Chimeric Antigen B Cell (CAR B Cell) Therapy for Targeted Therapeutic and Prophylactic Vaccination Supervisors: Simon Draper, Len Seymour
Katarzyna Chwalenia
Department of Paediatrics Effect of myonuclear domain structure on therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Supervisors: Matthew Wood
Max Crane
Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences Molecular Determinants of Neurodegeneration in Progressive Multiple Sclerosis
Supervisors: Gabriele De Luca Delaney Dominey-Foy
Nuffield 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 Featherstone
Nuffield 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 Gullino
Pharmacology 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 Holliman
Radcliffe Department of Medicine
Switching genes on and off in erythropoiesis
Supervisors: Douglas Higgs Robert Horsley
Department of Oncology
Investigating how cells repair DNA damage during mitosis
Supervisors: Andrew Blackford Alissa Hummer
Department of Statistics Structural Bioinformatics Computational design of therapeutic antibodies binding GPCRs in a conformation-dependent manner Supervisors: Charlotte Deane Naroa Ibarra Aizpurua
Department 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 Kurjan
Nuffield 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 Lang
Department 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 LUCINESCUNuffield Department of Women's and Reproductive Health 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-Dare
Department 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 Luke McGeoch
Nuffield Department of Population Health MSc Global Health Science and Epidemiology
Olaa Mohamed-Ahmed
Epidemiology of autoimmune disease in Chinese adults Supervisors: Fiona Bragg, Zheng-Ming Chen, Christiana Kartsonak Patrick Pflughaupt
Radcliffe 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 Piletic
Nuffield 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 Raslescu
Department of Psychiatry Developing a neurocognitive model of the antidepressant effects of ketamine Supervisors: Catherine Harmer, Susannah Murphy Jasmine Reese
Nuffield 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 Smith
Medical Sciences Doctoral Training Centre
DPhil in Ion Channels and Disease
Supervisors: Christopher Norbury Lisa Spiering
Department 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 Turkalj
Radcliffe Department of Medicine Molecular basis for clonal advantage in myeloid blood cancers Supervisors: Paresh Vyas Sophie Twigger
Department 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 Walton
Radcliffe Department of Medicine
Building the skull - normal and abnormal development Supervisors: Stephen Twigg, Andrew Wilkie Justin Wormald
Nuffield 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 |
