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Exemplar Projects and Supervisors list

Students will be able to choose their PhD topic from a catalogue of diverse and interdisciplinary projects under the supervision of experts in their respective fields.

Examples of PhD projects include:

  • “Delivery of microRNA using lipid nanoparticles for cardiac regeneration and tracing its biodistribution using PET”, Supervisors: Giacca, Al-Jamal and Torres
  • "The anti-tumour function of interleukin-36”, Supervisors: Capon and Karagiannis
  • “Using mesenchymal stem cells to improve islet transplantation therapy for type 1 diabetes”, Supervisors: Aileen J King and Peter M Jones
  • “Identification and testing of novel biologics for the treatment of peripheral arterial disease”, Supervisors: Modarai and Patel
  • “Interrogating multi-omics and clinical datasets using machine learning methods to inform the discovery and personalised targeting of advanced therapies for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis“, Supervisors: Dobson and Al-Chalabi
  • “Developing a novel theranostic (diagnostic and therapeutic) radiopharmaceutical for the precision treatment of therapy-resistant lung cancer”, Supervisors: Witney and Ng
  • “Using molecular mechanisms that link maternal diet and lifelong metabolic health to develop advanced therapies in metabolic disease”, Supervisors: Oakey and Charalambous

This is the complete list of  Supervisors for the PhD Programme in Translational Research in Advanced Cell & Gene Therapies.

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Cardiovascular Diseases

Giacca, Shanahan, Mayr, Patel, Modarai, Fukuda, Zampetaki, Ellison, Shah, O’Gallagher, Bromage, Ivetic

 
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Metabolic Diseases

Sanchez Fuego, Spagnoli, Sancho, Dhawan, Barral, Jones, Filippi, King

 
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Immune-mediated Inflammatory Diseases

Cope, di Meglio, Galloway, Taams, Irving, Mishto, Mukhopadhyay, Dazzi, Lombardi, Farzaneh

 

 
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Cancer

Curtis, Irshad, Karagiannis, Ciccarelli, Maher, Purushotham, Ahmed, Jackow, Quek, Spicer, Mufti, Arnold, Benjamin, Sanderson

 
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Neurological Disorders

Ali, Dias, Maccabe, Bradbury, Streit, Ule, Warren, Jimenez-Sanchez, Pearson, Corcoran, Sreedharan, Shaw, Lee, Al-Chalabi

 

 
Genetics

Genetic Disorders

Smith, Godfrey, Capon, Duncan, McGrath, Bell, Small, Oakey, Gautel, Small

 
Advanced therapies centre

Personalised medicine, imaging and novel technologies for Advanced Therapy delivery and tracking

Dobson, Teo, Wang, Karimi, Sastiuk, Witney, Cardoso, Vigilante, Young, Ourselin, Botnar, Torres Martin de Rosales, Fruhwirth, Goh, Ng, Barrington, Makatsoris, Al-Jamal, Chiappini, Gentleman, Serio, Henckaerts

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