2024

Naeem  Abdul Ghafoor

Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences

Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship

Developing translatable TetraVecta-enabled allogeneic regulatory T cell therapy

Supervisors: Fadi Issa, Joanna Hester

Harry Lee

Sir William Dunn School of Pathology

Transport to the bacterial outer membrane, Rhomboid-like proteins

Supervisors: Georgia Isom, Matthew Freeman

Anjum Aktar

Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine

Project title tbc

Supervisors: Sarah Rowland-Jones, Ester Gea-Mallorqui

Roshni Mansfield       

from TT25

Department of Paediatrics

Project title tbc

Supervisors: tbc

SungJun Cho

Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Developing interpretable attention-based generative models for neuroimaging data

Supervisors: Mark Woolrich, Oiwihawaiiokalani Parker Jones

Samuel Mullan

Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics

Regulation of the Sandman channel in Drosophila sleep homeostasis

Supervisor: Gero Miesenboeck

Josephine Douglas

Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences

Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship

Neutrophil subset behaviour in vascular and tissue microenvironment: organ-on-a-chip

Supervisors: Irina Udalova, James Fullerton

Ashley Newton

Department of Oncology

Depression and Cancer - investigating the molecular biology underpinning the relationship between the two

Supervisors: Eric O'Neill

Alice Edmonds

Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences

The role of vascular macrophages in cardiovascular health and disease 

Supervisors: Claudia Monaco, Inhye Park

Katerina Panti

Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences                                                               

Circuit Dissection of Schizophrenia' Electrophysiological interrogation of neural circuits underlying schizophrenia in a rare variant mouse model

Supervisors: Andrew Sharott, Jeffrey Stedehouder                                                  

Emily Groves

Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine

Novel tools and approaches for safer and more effective radical cure of Plasmodium vivax malaria

Supervisors: Richard Price

Ryan Porter

Radcliffe Department of Medicine 

Project title tbc 

Supervisors: Simon Davis, Alexander Drakesmith, Joseph Clarke

Rowan Haslam

Department of Psychiatry

Towards understanding and treating anhedonia in depression: investigating the neuropsychological effects of losartan in Behavioural Activation

Supervisors: Andrea Reinecke

Thomas Quinlan

Mathematical Institute

Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship

An integrative mathematical approach to understand how intraplaque angiogenesis and vascular structure impact atherosclerosis and their potential 

Supervisors:  Helen Byrne, Ruth Baker

Alexandra Hopkins

Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics

Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship

SPARTA for Acute Myocardial Infarction

Supervisor: Molly Stevens 

Ana Rodrigues

Department of Biochemistry

Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship

High-throughput characterisation of the functional antibody epitope landscape of surface protein targets to guide vaccine and biologic design 

Supervisor: Simon Draper  

Aleksander Klimczyk

Department of Biochemistry

What drives the evolution of epigenetic mechanisms?

Supervisors: Peter Sarkies, Madhusudhan Srinivasan

Yuxuan Zhang

Radcliffe Department of Medicine 

Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship

Project title tbc

Supervisors:  Simon Davis, Alison Simmons, Mafalda Santos

KAterina Konstantinidou

Sir William Dunn School of Pathology

Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship

Understanding the molecular reach of therapeutic CD3-targeting bi-specific antibodies to optimise efficacy

Supervisors: Omer Dushek, Sumana Sanyal

Chuzhi Zhao

Department of Biochemistry

Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship

Target enrichment of transposable elements for direct RNA sequencing

Supervisors: Rebecca Berrens, Georg Hollander