2023

Aneesh Aggarwal

Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health

Modelling Early Ovarian Tumorigenesis using Fallopian Tube Organoids

Supervisors: Ahmed Ashour Ahmed, Mara Artibani

Benjamin Keedwell

Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship

Development of Methods to Assess Intracranial Vessel Stiffness as a Measure of Vascular Disease

Supervisors: Peter Jezzard, Thomas Okell

Daniel Atkinson

Radcliffe Department of Medicine

Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship

Inter-vendor standardisation and quality assurance of quantitative cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) T1-mapping for clinical practice

Supervisors: Stefan Piechnik, Vanessa Ferreira

Aleksandr Kovalenko

Department of Biochemistry

Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship

In silico characterisation of portal proteins for application as biosensors

Supervisors: Syma Khalid

Rebecca Braine

Department of Pharmacology

Investigating the role of uptake and metabolism in the mechanism of action of the drug N-acetyl-leucine

Supervisors: Frances Platt, Grant Churchill

Konstantinos Lekkos

Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics

Investigating the role of oxidative metabolism in cardiomyocyte dedifferentiation and zebrafish heart regeneration

Supervisors: Mathilda Mommersteeg, Lisa Heather

Maria Bunyan

Department of Psychiatry

Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship

Development of a digital behavioural intervention to reduce dementia risk in ageing adults

Supervisors: John Gallacher, Ivan Koychev

Hao Li

Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship

Highly Accelerated Magnetic Resonance Angiography using Deep Learning

Supervisors: Thomas Okell, Peter Jezzard, Mark Chiew, Iulius Dragonu

Han Cai

Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology & Musculoskeletal Sciences

Illuminating T cells in their local microenvironments to understand how they sense and adapt to their trigger during infection

Supervisors: Audrey Gerard, Tal Arnon

Nicole Machado

Department of Oncology

Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship

How does the tumour microenvironment affect cancer cell responses to DNA damage repair inhibition during radiotherapy?

Supervisors: Geoffrey Higgins

Alfie Carter

Department of Oncology

Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship

Using oncolytic viral therapy to target the tumour microenvironment in chromosomally unstable cancers

Supervisors: Eileen Parkes, Simon Buczacki

Alexandra Mcstea

Department of Biochemistry

Mechanisms of deubiquitination in DNA repair

Supervisors: Ian Gibbs-Seymour, Paul Elliott

Maira Cordelle

Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology & Musculoskeletal Sciences

Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship

Engineering skeletal muscle using a humanoid bioreactor platform

Supervisors: Pierre-Alexis Mouthuy, Sarah Snelling

Eloise Newman

Department of Biology

Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship

Harnessing the social transmission of microbiota to improve health and immunity

Supervisors: Joshua Firth, Sarah Knowles

Hannah Dobbs

Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine

iPSC Macrophages/microglia and genome-wide CRISPR/Cas9 screening to investigate lipid accumulation in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer’s Disease

Supervisors: Elena Navarro Guerrero, Emma Mead, Margarida Ruas

Zachary Rawlinson

Department of Oncology

Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship

Promoting cancer cell’s antigen presentation for T cell immunotherapy

Supervisors: Shisong Jiang, Tim Donohoe

Jasmine Ming Gan

Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Delirium and Dementia in Hospitalised Older People with Acute Illness: Risk Factors, Mechanisms and Prognosis

Supervisors: Sarah Pendlebury, Peter Rothwell

Holly Roach

Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine

Understanding how perturbations in microbial mimicry promotes breakdown in tolerance to insulin

Supervisors: Marcin Pekalski, John Todd & Jethro Johnson

Samuel Jones

Radcliffe Department of Medicine

Project: tbc

Supervisors: Christopher Toepfer, Hugh Watkins

Catharina Savelkoul

Department of Primary Care Health Sciences

Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship

GPs labour trajectories and patients’ health outcomes in general practices

Supervisors: Catia Nicodemo, Simon de Lusignan, Joan Madia, Stavros Petrou 

Bakita Kasadha

Department of Primary Care Health Sciences

Understanding the experiences of UK-based peer/community-based researchers navigating co-production within academically-led health research

Supervisors: Sue Ziebland, Teresa Finlay, Cicely Marston.

Lottie Shipp

Department of Experimental Psychology

Understanding cognitive and behavioural mechanisms of Generalised Anxiety Disorder in adolescents

Supervisors: Polly Waite, Eleanor Leigh