2021 Students

Maddalena Ardissino

Nuffield Department of Population Health

MSc Global Health Science and Epidemiology

Desire Habonimana

Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine

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 

Laura Bailey

Radcliffe Department of Medicine

Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship conversion

Title: TBC

Supervisors: David Ray, Noelia Martinez Sanchez, Matthew Baxter, Ana Isabel Dias Neto Domingos

Anisa Hajizadeh

Department of Primary Care Health Sciences

The effect of dietary interventions in treating essential hypertension in primary care

Supervisors: Paul Aveyard, Dimitrios Koutoukidis, Rachna Aziz Begh

Adrianna Banducci-Karp

Sir William Dunn School of Pathology

Viral manipulation of host cell biology for assembly, secretion and immune evasion 

Supervisors: Sumana Sanyal, Pedro Carvalho 

Brooke Hewitson

Nuffield Department of Population Health

MSc Global Health Science and Epidemiology

Oliver Beaven

Radcliffe Department of Medicine

Title: TBC

Supervisors: Ketan Patel, Ian Pavord

Emily Hyde

Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health

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

Department of Psychiatry

Translating sophisticated remote cognitive assessments for the Oxford Brain Health Centre clinical population

Supervisors: Clare Mackay 

Aurelija Ippolito

Department of Pharmacology

Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship conversion

The role of 5-HT receptor biased agonism in psychedelic drug action

Supervisors: Trevor Sharp, Grant Churchill 

IsAbel Brooks

Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine

Understanding host-microbe interactions in the gastrointestinal tract and their contributions to chronic inflammatory responses

Supervisors: Carolina Arancibia-Carcamo, Paul Klenerman 

Rachel Jones

Department of Biochemistry

Projects involving a diverse combination of biophysical and structural techniques, focused on biochemistry of microbes

Supervisors: Benjamin Berks, Richard Berry

Daniele Cotton

Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences

Understanding the importance of location within the tumour-bone microenvironment Field: Bone Oncology

Supervisors: Claire Edwards, James Edwards, Srinivasa Rao Rao 

Meredith Leston

Department of Primary Care Health Sciences

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 

Katie Croft

Radcliffe Department of Medicine

Title: TBC

Supervisors: Claus Nerlov

Sam Murray 

Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine

Title: TBC

Supervisors: Eleanor Barnes, Susanna Dunachie, Paul Klenerman 

Constantinos Demetriou

Department of Oncology

Investigating the role of inflammation in pancreatic cancer

Supervisors: Shisong Jiang, Eric O'Neill 

Bethan O'Connor

Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics

Dopamine transporter regulation of short-term plasticity in dopamine release

Supervisors: Stephanie Cragg

Alice Evans 

Department of Oncology

Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship

Optimising CAR-T efficacy in pancreatic cancer with bioengineered scaffolds and immune agonists

Supervisors: Hua Ye, Eric O'Neill 

Samuel Ponting

Department 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  

Natasha Fisher-Pearson

Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences

The Microbiome and Vaccine Response

Supervisors: Jethro Johnson, Mark Coles, Claire Pearson, Paola Cicconi

Joel Quinn

Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Investigation of immune checkpoint receptor activation as a strategy for treating retinal inflammation

Supervisors: Kanmin Xue

MIRANDA Geddes-Barton

Department of Population Health

MSc Global Health Science and Epidemiology

Esra Sengul

Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics

Unrevealing the Mystery of Heart Regeneration with Astyanax mexicanus

Supervisors: Mathilda Mommersteeg, Carolyn Carr

DanNY Gold 

Department of Biochemistry

Studying the role of the Aurora A-protein phosphatase 6 axis in asymmetric cell divisions using brain organoids

Supervisors: Francis Barr, Bela Novak 

Ayaka Shinozaki

Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics

Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship conversion

Development of Novel RF Coils for Hyperpolarized MRI

Supervisors: Damian Tyler, James Grist 

Dongyu Gong

Department of Experimental Psychology

How Does Memory Guide Attention in Suppressing Distractors? Towards the Understanding of Its Neural Mechanisms

Supervisors: Kia Nobre 

Gina Wren 

Department of Primary Care Health Sciences

Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship 

Using Behavioural Insights to Improve Effectiveness of Digital Weight Loss Interventions’

Supervisors: Susan Jebb, Dimitrios Koutoukidis, Jadine Scragg