Current opportunities
Thank you for your interest in DiMeN DTP PhD studentships. Applications are not currently open, but projects will be posted here when they are. You should apply for three PhD projects available across the DiMeN DTP network. We advise that you contact the supervisor for the projects you are interested in before submitting an application.
We have a variety of exciting opportunities to undertake your PhD on a project that has direct relevance to industry through our iCASE scheme (see projects below tagged iCASE). These all involve an industrial partner where you can spend time working as part of your project, gaining insight into the R&D workspace. In addition, iCASE projects come with an enhanced stipend for the student and also increased consumables budget.
Information on how to apply can be found HERE.
Below you can see some of our project titles from last year.
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2021Hatton, C.F., Botting, R.A., Dueñas, M.E. et al. Delayed induction of type I and III interferons mediates nasal epithelial cell permissiveness to SARS-CoV-2. Nat Commun 12, 7092 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27318-0 Rutherford HA, Kasher PR, Hamilton N. Dirty Fish Versus Squeaky Clean Mice: Dissecting Interspecies Differences Between Animal Models of Interferonopathy. Front Immunol. (2021);11:623650. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.623650. Yang C, Georgiou M, Atkinson R, Collin J, Al-Aama J, Nagaraja-Grellscheid S, Johnson C, Ali R, Armstrong L, Mozaffari-Jovin S, Lako M. Pre-mRNA Processing Factors and Retinitis Pigmentosa: RNA Splicing and Beyond. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2021 Jul 28;9:700276. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2021.700276 Lennie, E., Tsoumpas, C. & Sourbron, S. Multimodal phantoms for clinical PET/MRI. EJNMMI Phys 8, 62 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40658-021-00408-0 Solis-Castro Oscar O., Wong Natalie, Boissonade Fiona M. Chemokines and Pain in the Trigeminal System. Front. Pain Res., 2021 July; 2:31 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpain.2021.689314 Hammond S, Olsson-Brown A, Gardner J, Thomson P, Ali SE, Jolly C, Carr D, Ressel L, Pirmohamed M, Naisbitt D. T cell mediated hypersensitivity to previously tolerated iodinated contrast media precipitated by introduction of atezolizumab. J Immunother Cancer. 2021 May;9(5):e002521. doi: 10.1136/jitc-2021-002521. Varn, F., Johnson, K., Barthel, F., Kim, H., Wade, T., Malta, T., Sabedot, T., Lodha, D., Ajaib, S., Ahmed, N., Garofano, L., D’Angelo, F., Stead, L., Poisson, L., Noushmehr, H., Iavarone, A., Verhaak, R., & GLASS Consortium (2021). OMRT-3. Longitudinal analysis of diffuse glioma reveals cell state dynamics at recurrence associated with changes in genetics and the microenvironment. Neuro-oncology Advances, 3 (Suppl 2), ii7–ii8. https://doi.org/10.1093/noajnl/vdab070.029 Varn, F., Johnson, K., Barthel, F., Kim, H., Wade, T., Lodha, D., Ajaib, S., Ahmed, N., Garofano, L., D'Angelo, F., Stead, L., Noushmehr, H., Varone, A. and Verhaak, R. (2020). EPCO-08. TUMOR-IMMUNE INTERACTIONS ARE DYNAMIC AND INFLUENCE THE EVOLUTIONARY TRAJECTORY OF ADULT DIFFUSE GLIOMA. Neuro-Oncology. 22. ii70-ii71. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/neuonc/noaa215.287 George E. Stenhouse, Khuzwayo C. Jere, Chikondi Peno, Rebecca J. Bengtsson, End Chinyama, Jonathan Mandolo, Amy Cain, Miren Iturriza-Gómara, Naor Bar-Zeev, Nigel A. Cunliffe, Jennifer Cornick and Kate S. Baker (2021) Whole genome sequence analysis of Shigella from Malawi identifies fluoroquinolone resistance Microbial Genomics;7:000532 DOI 10.1099/mgen.0.000532 Marsh SA, Park C, Redgrave RE, Singh E, Draganova L, Boag SE, Spray L, Ali S, Spyridopoulos I, Arthur HM. Rapid fall in circulating non-classical monocytes in ST elevation myocardial infarction patients correlates with cardiac injury. FASEB J. 2021 May;35(5):e21604. doi: 10.1096/fj.202100240R Jonathon Alexis Coates, Elliot Brooks, Amy Louise Brittle, Emma Louise Armitage, Martin Peter Zeidler, Iwan Robert Evans, 'Identification of functionally distinct macrophage subpopulations in Drosophila' eLife doi: 10.7554/eLife.58686 Joshua A. F. Sutton, Oliver T. Carnell, Lucia Lafage, Joe Gray, Jacob Biboy, Josie F. Gibson, Eric J. G. Pollitt, Simone C. Tazoll, William Turnbull, Natalia H. Hajdamowicz, Bartłomiej Salamaga, Grace R. Pidwill, Alison M. Condliffe, Stephen A. Renshaw, Waldemar Vollmer, Simon J. Foster. Staphylococcus aureus cell wall structure and dynamics during host-pathogen interaction. Plos Pathogens doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1009468 Clancy,A, Heride,C. Pinto-Fernández,A., Elcocks,H., Kallinos,A., Kayser-Bricker,K.J., Wang, W., Smith,V., Davis,S., Fessler,S., McKinnon,C., Katz,M., Hammonds,T., Jones, N.P., O’Connell,J., Follows,B., Mischke,S., Caravella,J.A., Ioannidis,S., Dinsmore,C., Kim, S., Behrens,A., Komander,D., Kessler,B.M., Urbé,S, Clague,M.J. (2021) The deubiquitylase USP9X controls ribosomal stalling. J. Cell Biol. 220 (3): e202004211, doi: 10.1083/jcb.202004211 Olivier R. Tardy, Emma L. Armitage, Lynne R. Prince, Iwan R. Evans. The Epidermal Growth Factor Ligand Spitz Modulates Macrophage Efferocytosis, Wound Responses and Migration Dynamics During Drosophila Embryogenesis Front. Cell Dev. Biol. doi:10.3389/fcell.2021.636024 Mengoli V, Jonak K, Lyzak O, Lamb M, Lister LM, Lodge C, Rojas J, Zagoriy I, Herbert M, Zachariae W. Deprotection of centromeric cohesin at meiosis II requires APC/C activity but not kinetochore tension. EMBO J. 2021 Apr 1;40(7):e106812. DOI: 10.15252/embj.2020106812 Serat-E Ali as part of the COVID-LIV Study Group. Prospective observational study of SARS-CoV-2 infection, transmission and immunity in a cohort of households in Liverpool City Region, UK (COVID-LIV): a study protocol. BJM Open doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-048317 Snodgrass RO, Chico TJA, Arthur HM. Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangiectasia, an Inherited Vascular Disorder in Need of Improved Evidence-Based Pharmaceutical Interventions. Genes (Basel). 2021 Jan 27;12(2):174. doi: 10.3390/genes12020174 Castanheira, C., Balaskas, P., Falls, C. et al. Equine synovial fluid small non-coding RNA signatures in early osteoarthritis. BMC Vet Res 17, 26 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-020-02707-7 Kreilkamp BAK, McKavanagh A, Alonazi B, Bryant L, Das K, Wieshmann UC, Marson AG, Taylor PN, Keller SS. Altered structural connectome in non-lesional newly diagnosed focal epilepsy: Relation to pharmacoresistance. Neuroimage Clin.2021;29:102564. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2021.102564. Ane Ogbe, Barbara Kronsteiner, Donal T. Skelly, Matthew Pace, Anthony Brown, Emily Adland, Kareena Adair, Hossain Delowar Akhter, Mohammad Ali, Serat-E Ali, Adrienn Angyal, M. Azim Ansari, Carolina V. Arancibia-Cárcamo, Helen Brown, Senthil Chinnakannan, Christopher Conlon, Catherine de Lara, Thushan de Silva, Christina Dold, Tao Dong, Timothy Donnison, David Eyre, Amy Flaxman, Helen Fletcher, Joshua Gardner, James T. Grist, Carl-Philipp Hackstein, Kanoot Jaruthamsophon, Katie Jeffery, Teresa Lambe, Lian Lee, Wenqin Li, Nicholas Lim, Philippa C. Matthews, Alexander J. Mentzer, Shona C. Moore, Dean J. Naisbitt, Monday Ogese, Graham Ogg, Peter Openshaw, Munir Pirmohamed, Andrew J. Pollard, Narayan Ramamurthy, Patpong Rongkard, Sarah Rowland-Jones, Oliver Sampson, Gavin Screaton, Alessandro Sette, Lizzie Stafford, Craig Thompson, Paul J. Thomson, Ryan Thwaites, Vinicius Vieira, Daniela Weiskopf, Panagiota Zacharopoulou, Oxford Immunology Network Covid-19 Response T Cell Consortium, Oxford Protective T Cell Immunology for COVID-19 (OPTIC) Clinical Team, Lance Turtle, Paul Klenerman, Philip Goulder, John Frater, Eleanor Barnes & Susanna Dunachie (2021) T cell assays differentiate clinical and subclinical SARS-CoV-2 infections from cross-reactive antiviral responses Nature Communications doi:10.1038/s41467-021-21856-3 Lorna Bryant, Emilie T. McKinnon, James A. Taylor, Jens H. Jensen, Leonardo Bonilha, Christophe de Bezenac, Barbara A. K. Kreilkamp, Guleed Adan, Udo C. Wieshmann, Shubhabrata Biswas, Anthony G. Marson, Simon S. Keller. Fiber ball white matter modeling in focal epilepsy Human Brain Mapping doi: 10.1002/hbm.25382 Adam Albanese, Leonard A. Daly, Daniela Mennerich, Thomas Kietzmann, Violaine Sée. The Role of Hypoxia-Inducible Factor Post-Translational Modifications in Regulating Its Localisation, Stability, and Activity Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2021, 22(1), 268; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22010268
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2020Mawdesley A, Davidson L, Anjum S, Kirby J, Tyson-Capper A (2020) Effect of Cobalt Ions on Chemokine Expression: Case Report of Immune Cell Infiltration in Patient Undergoing Revision of Metal-On-Metal Implant. J Orthop Res Ther 5: 1154. DOI: 10.29011/2575-8241.001154 Adam J. Carlton, Julia Halford, Anna Underhill, Jing‐Yi Jeng, Matthew R. Avenarius, Merle L. Gilbert, Federico Ceriani , Kimimuepigha Ebisine, Steve D. M. Brown, Michael R. Bowl, Peter G. Barr‐Gillespie & Walter Marcotti. Loss of Baiap2l2 destabilizes the transducing stereocilia of cochlear hair cells and leads to deafness. J Physiol 599.4 (2021) pp 1173–1198 https://doi.org/10.1113/JP280670 Florian Gothe, Catherine F Hatton, Linh Truong, Zofia Klimova, Veronika Kanderova, Martina Fejtkova, Angela Grainger, Venetia Bigley, Joanna Perthen, Dipayan Mitra, Ales Janda, Eva Fronkova, Dusana Moravcikova, Sophie Hambleton, Christopher J A Duncan. A Novel Case of Homozygous Interferon Alpha/Beta Receptor Alpha Chain (IFNAR1) Deficiency With Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis. Clinical Infectious Diseases, ciaa1790, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa1790 Stephen R Knight, Antonia Ho, Riinu Pius, Iain Buchan, Gail Carson, Thomas M Drake, Jake Dunning, Cameron J Fairfield, Carrol Gamble, Christopher A Green, Rishi Gupta, Sophie Halpin, Hayley E Hardwick, Karl A Holden, Peter W Horby, Clare Jackson, Kenneth A Mclean, Laura Merson, Jonathan S Nguyen-Van-Tam, Lisa Norman, Mahdad Noursadeghi, Piero L Olliaro, Mark G Pritchard, Clark D Russell, Catherine A Shaw, Aziz Sheikh, Tom Solomon, Cathie Sudlow, Olivia V Swann, Lance CW Turtle, Peter JM Openshaw, Kenneth Baillie, Malcolm G Semple, Annemarie B Docherty, Ewen M Harrison, on behalf of the ISARIC4C investigators Including Robyn Kiy & Rebekah Penrice-Randal (2020) Risk stratification of patients admitted to hospital with covid-19 using the ISARIC WHO Clinical Characterisation Protocol: development and validation of the 4C Mortality Score BMJ 2020; 370 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m3339 Anna L. M. Smith, Julia C. Whitehall, Carla Bradshaw, David Gay, Fiona Robertson, Alasdair P. Blain, Gavin Hudson, Angela Pyle, David Houghton, Matthew Hunt, James N. Sampson, Craig Stamp, Grace Mallett, Shoba Amarnath, Jack Leslie, Fiona Oakley, Laura Wilson, Angela Baker, Oliver M. Russell, Riem Johnson, Claire A. Richardson, Bhavana Gupta, Iain McCallum, Stuart A. C. McDonald, Seamus Kelly, John C. Mathers, Rakesh Heer, Robert W. Taylor, Neil D. Perkins, Doug M. Turnbull, Owen J. Sansom & Laura C. Greaves ‘Age-associated mitochondrial DNA mutations cause metabolic remodeling that contributes to accelerated intestinal tumorigenesis’ – ‘Nature Cancer’ doi:10.1038/s43018-020-00112-5 Lodge C, Herbert M. Oocyte aneuploidy-more tools to tackle an old problem. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Jun 2;117(22):11850-11852 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2005739117 Pei G. Chew, Peter P. Swoboda, Carrie Ferguson, Pankaj Garg, Abigail L. Cook, Said Ibeggazene, Louise A. E. Brown, Thomas P. Craven, James R. Foley, Graham J. Fent, Christopher E. Saunderson, David M. Higgins, Sven Plein, Karen M. Birch, John P. Greenwood ‘Feasibility and reproducibility of a cardiovascular magnetic resonance free-breathing, multi-shot, navigated image acquisition technique for ventricular volume quantification during continuous exercise. QIMS doi: 10.21037/qims-20-117 David A. Dorward, Clark D. Russell, In Hwa Um, Mustafa Elshani, Stuart D. Armstrong, Rebekah Penrice-Randal, Tracey Millar, Chris E. B. Lerpiniere, Giulia Tagliavini, Catherine S. Hartley, Nadine P. Randle, Naomi N. Gachanja, Philippe M. D. Potey, Xiaofeng Dong, Alison M. Anderson, Victoria L. Campbell, Alasdair J. Duguid, Wael Al Qsous, Ralph BouHaidar, J. Kenneth Baillie, Kevin Dhaliwal, William A. Wallace, Christopher O. C. Bellamy, Sandrine Prost, Colin Smith, Julian A. Hiscox, David J. Harrison, Christopher D. Lucas ‘Tissue-Specific Immunopathology in Fatal COVID-19’ – ‘American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine’ doi: 10.1164/rccm.202008-3265OC Rusilowicz-Jones EV, Jardine J, Kallinos A, Pinto-Fernandez A, Guenther F, Giurrandino M, Barone FG, McCarron K, Burke CJ, Murad A, Martinez A, Marcassa E, Gersch M, Buckmelter AJ, Kayser-Bricker KJ, Lamoliatte F, Gajbhiye A, Davis S, Scott HC, Murphy E, England K, Mortiboys H, Komander D, Trost M, Kessler BM, Ioannidis S, Ahlijanian MK, Urbé S, Clague MJ. USP30 sets a trigger threshold for PINK1-PARKIN amplification of mitochondrial ubiquitylation. Life Sci Alliance. 2020 Jul 7;3(8):e202000768. doi: 10.26508/lsa.202000768. Caisey V. Pulford, Blanca M. Perez-Sepulveda, Rocío Canals, Jessica A. Bevington, Rebecca J. Bengtsson, Nicolas Wenner, Ella V. Rodwell, Benjamin Kumwenda, Xiaojun Zhu, Rebecca J. Bennett, George E. Stenhouse, P. Malaka De Silva, Hermione J. Webster, Jose A. Bengoechea, Amy Dumigan, Alicia Tran-Dien, Reenesh Prakash, Happy C. Banda, Lovemore Alufandika, Mike P. Mautanga, Arthur Bowers-Barnard, Alexandra Y. Beliavskaia, Alexander V. Predeus, Will P. M. Rowe, Alistair C. Darby, Neil Hall, François-Xavier Weill, Melita A. Gordon, Nicholas A. Feasey, Kate S. Baker, Jay C. D. Hinton ‘Stepwise evolution of Salmonella Typhimurium ST313 causing bloodstream infection in Africa’ – ‘Nature Microbiology’ doi: 10.1038/s41564-020-00836-1 Martin J. McPhillie, Ying Zhou, Mark R. Hickman, James A. Gordon, Christopher R. Weber, Qigui Li, Patty J. Lee, Kangsa Amporndanai, Rachel M. Johnson, Heather Darby, Stuart Woods, Zhu-hong Li, Richard S. Priestley, Kurt D. Ristroph, Scott B. Biering, Kamal El Bissati, Seungmin Hwang, Farida Esaa Hakim, Sarah M. Dovgin, Joseph D. Lykins, Lucy Roberts, Kerrie Hargrave, Hua Cong,1, Anthony P. Sinai, Stephen P. Muench, Jitender P. Dubey, Robert K. Prud'homme, Hernan A. Lorenzi, Giancarlo A. Biagini, Silvia N. Moreno, Craig W. Roberts, Svetlana V. Antonyuk, Colin W. G. Fishwick, Rima McLeod ‘Potent Tetrahydroquinolone Eliminates Apicomplexan Parasites’ – ‘Front Cell Infect Microbiol’ doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2020.00203 Clare Tweedy, Nathan Kindred, Joshua Curry, Christopher Williams, John-Paul Taylor, Peter Atkinson, Fiona Randalld, Daniel Erskine, Christopheer M.Morris, Amy K.Reeve, Gavin J.Clowry, Fiona E.N. LeBeaua‘Hippocampal network hyperexcitability in young transgenic mice expressing human mutant alpha-synuclein’ – Neurobiology of Disease doi: 10.1016/j.nbd.2020.105226 George E. Stenhouse, Khuzwayo C. Jere, Chikondi Peno, Rebecca J. Bengtsson, End Chinyama, Jonathan Mandolo, K. Cain, Miren Iturriza-Gómara, Naor Bar-Zeev, Nigel A. Cunliffe, Jennifer Cornick, Kate S. Baker 'Whole genome sequence analysis of Shigella from Malawi identifies fluoroquinolone resistance. bioRxiv 2020 doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.11.20.391235 Mandy J. Peffers, Alzbeta Chabronova, Panagiotis Balaskas, Yongxiang Fang, Philip Dyer, Andy Cremers, Pieter J. Emans, Peter Z. Feczko, Marjolein M. Caron & Tim J. M. Welting SnoRNA signatures in cartilage ageing and osteoarthritis. Scientific Reports doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-67446-z Panagiotis Balaskas, Jonathan A. Green, Tariq M. Haqqi, Philip Dyer, Yalda A. Kharaz, Yongxiang Fang, Xuan Liu, Tim J.M. Welting, Mandy J. Peffers, ‘Small Non-Coding RNAome of Ageing Chondrocytes’ – ‘Int. J. Mol. Sci’ doi:10.3390/ijms21165675 Shona C. Moore, Rebekah Penrice-Randal, Muhannad Alruwaili, Nadine Randle, Stuart Armstrong, Catherine Hartley, Sam Haldenby, Xiaofeng Dong, Abdulrahman Alrezaihi, Mai Almsaud, Eleanor Bentley, Jordan Clark, Isabel García-Dorival, Paul Gilmore, Ximeng Han, Benjamin Jones, Lisa Luu, Parul Sharma, Ghada Shawli, Yani Sun, Qin Zhao, Steven T. Pullan, Daniel P. Carter, Kevin Bewley, Jake Dunning, En-min Zhou, Tom Solomon, Michael Beadsworth, James Cruise, Derrick W. Crook, David A. Matthews, Andrew D. Davidson, Zana Mahmood, Waleed Aljabr, Julian Druce, Richard Vipond, Lisa Ng, Laurent Renia, Peter J. M. Openshaw, J. Kenneth Baillie, Miles W. Carroll, James Stewart, Alistair Darby, Malcolm Semple, Lance Turtle, Julian A. Hiscox ‘Amplicon-Based Detection and Sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 in Nasopharyngeal Swabs from Patients With COVID-19 and Identification of Deletions in the Viral Genome That Encode Proteins Involved in Interferon Antagonism’ – ‘Viruses’ doi: 10.3390/v12101164 Adam J Carlton, Julia Halford, Anna Underhill, Jing-Yi Jeng, Matthew R Avenarius, Merle L Gilbert, Federico Ceriani, Kimimuepigha Ebisine, Steve D M Brown, Michael R Bowl, Peter G Barr-Gillespie, Walter Marcotti Loss of Baiap2l2 destabilizes the transducing stereocilia of cochlear hair cells and leads to deafness – ‘J Physiol’ doi: 10.1113/JP280670 Philip AJ Crosbie, Rhian Gabe, Irene Simmonds, Martyn Kennedy, Suzanne Rogerson, Nazia Ahmed, David R Baldwin, Richard Booton, Ann Cochrane, Michael Darby, Kevin Franks, Sebastian Hinde, Sam M Janes, Una Macleod, Mike Messenger, Henrik Moller, Rachael L Murray, Richard D Neal, Samantha L Quaife, Mark Sculpher, Puvanendran Tharmanathan, David Torgerson, Matthew EJ Callister 'Yorkshire Lung Screening Trial (YLST): protocol for a randomised controlled trial to evaluate invitation to community-based low-dose CT screening for lung cancer versus usual care in a targeted population at risk' 'BMJ Open' doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-037075 Alexander G. Bury, Amy E. Vincent, Doug M. Turnbull, Paolo Actis, Gavin Hudson (2020) Mitochondrial isolation: when size matters – ‘Wellcome Open Res’ doi: https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16300.2 Phillippa J Carling, Heather Mortiboys, Claire Green, Simeon Mihaylov, Cynthia Sandor, Aurelie Schwartzentruber, Rosie Taylor, Wenbin Wei, Chris Hastings, Siew Wong, Christine Lo, Samuel Evetts, Hannah Clemmens, Matthew Wyles, Sam Willcox, Thomas Payne, Rachel Hughes, Laura Ferraiuolo, Caleb Webber, Winston Hide, Richard Wade-Martins, Kevin Talbot, Michele T Hu, Oliver Bandmann 'Deep phenotyping of peripheral tissue facilitates mechanistic disease stratification in sporadic Parkinson's disease' – ‘Prog Neurobiol’ doi: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2020.101772 Elisa Molinari, Shalabh Srivastava, Rebecca M. Dewhurst, John A. Sayer 'Use of patient derived urine renal epithelial cells to confirm pathogenicity of PKHD1 alleles' – ‘BMC Nephrology’ doi:10.1186/s12882-020-02094-z. Grace Mallett, Warren Patterson, Megan Payne, Shoba Amarnath 'Isolation and Characterization of Innate Lymphoid Cells within the Murine Tumor Microenvironment' – ‘MIMB, volume 2121’ doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0338-3_14 Madeleine R. Brown, Sheena E. Radford, Eric W. Hewitt 'Modulation of β-Amyloid Fibril Formation in Alzheimer’s Disease by Microglia and Infection' – ‘Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience’ doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2020.609073 Andrea C Masi, Yaa E A Oppong, Beate Haugk, Christopher A Lamb, Linda Sharp, James M Shaw, Christopher J Stewart, Kofi W Oppong 'Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided fine needle biopsy (FNB) formalin fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) pancreatic tissue samples are a potential resource for microbiota analysis' -'Gut' doi:10.1136/gutjnl-2020-322457 James C. Waddington, Serat-E Ali, Sophie L. Penman, Paul Whitaker, Jane Hamlett, Amy Chadwick, Dean J. Naisbitt, B. Kevin Park, Xiaoli Meng 'Cell Membrane Transporters Facilitate the Accumulation of Hepatocellular Flucloxacillin Protein Adducts: Implication in Flucloxacillin-Induced Liver Injury' - 'Chemical Research in Toxicology' doi:10.1021/acs.chemrestox.0c00400 Alexander G. Bury, Amy E. Vincent, Doug M. Turnbull, Paolo Actis, Gavin Hudson 'Mitochondrial Isolation: when size matters' - 'Wellcome Open Research' doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16300.1 Katherine A. Davies, Benjamin Chadwick, Roger Hewson, Juan Fontana, Jamel Mankouri, John N. Barr 'The RNA Replication Site of Tula Orthohantavirus Resides within a Remodelled Golgi Network' - 'Cells' doi:10.3390/cells9071569 Viralkumar V. Panchal, Caitlin Griffiths, Hamed Mosaei, Bohdan Bilyk, Joshua A. F. Sutton, Oliver T. Carnell, David P. Hornby, Jeffrey Green, Jamie K. Hobbs, William L. Kelley, Nikolay Zenkin, Simon J. Foster - 'Evolving MRSA: High-level β-lactam resistance in Staphylococcus aureus is associated with RNA Polymerase alterations and fine tuning of gene expression' - 'Plos Pathogens' doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1008672 Rebecca Marie Dewhurst, Annachiara Scalzone, Joseph Buckley, Clara Mattu, Kenneth S. Rankin, Piergiorgio Gentile, Ana Marina Ferreira 'Development of Natural-Based Bone Cement for a Controlled Doxorubicin-Drug Release' -'Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol.' doi :10.3389/fbioe.2020.00754 Thomas M.D. Sheard, Luke Howlett, Hannah Kirton, Zhaokang Yang, Georgina Gurrola, Derek Steele, Izzy Jayasinghe, Hector H. Valdivia, John Colyer 'Peptide ligands of the cardiac ryanodine receptor as super-resolution imaging probes' - 'bioRxiv - Preprint Server for Biology': doi: 10.1101/2020.06.26.131854 Catherine M. Buckley, Henderikus Pots, Aurelie Gueho, James H. Vines, Christopher J. Munn, Ben A. Phillips, Bernd Gilsbach, David Traynor, Anton Nikolaev, Thierry Soldati, Andrew J. Parnell, Arjan Kortholt, and Jason S. King 'Coordinated Ras and Rac Activity Shapes Macropinocytic Cups and Enables Phagocytosis of Geometrically Diverse Bacteria' - 'Current Biology': doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.05.049 Bartoli, F., Bailey, M. A., Rode, B., Mateo, P., Antigny, F., Bedouet, K., Gerbaud, P., Gosain, R., Plante, J., Norman, K., Gomez, S., Lefebvre, F., Rucker-Martin, C., Ainscough, J. F. X., Kearney, M. T., Bruns, A.-F., Shi, J., Appleby, H. L., Young, R. S., Shawer, H. M., Debant, M., Gomez, A.-M., Beech, D. J., Foster, R., Benitah, J.-P. and Sabourin, J. (2020) ‘Orai1 Channel Inhibition Preserves Left Ventricular Systolic Function and Normal Ca2+ Handling After Pressure Overload’, 'Circulation'. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.118.038891. Devlin, L. A., Ramsbottom, S. A., Overman, L. M., Lisgo, S. N., Clowry, G., Molinari, E., Powell, L., Miles, C. G. and Sayer, J. A. (2020) ‘Embryonic and foetal expression patterns of the ciliopathy gene CEP164’ - 'PLOS ONE' doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0221914. Matthew J. Burke, Peter G. Stockley, and Joan Boyes. 'Broadly Neutralizing Bovine Antibodies: Highly Effective New Tools against Evasive Pathogens?' - 'Viruses' doi: 10.3390/v12040473 Andrea C Masi, Sara Koo, Christopher A Lamb ,Mark A Hull, Linda Sharp, Andrew Nelson, James S Hampton, Colin J Rees, Christopher J Stewart. 'Using faecal immunochemical test (FIT) undertaken in a national screening programme for large-scale gut microbiota analysis' - 'GUT' doi:10.1136/gutjnl-2020-321594
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2019Lauren Tomlinson, Zhen Qi Lub, Robert A Bentley, Helen E.Colley, Craig Murdoch, Steven D.Webb, Michael J.Cross, Ian M. Copple, Parveen Sharmaa ‘Attenuation of doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity in a human in vitro cardiac model by the induction of the NRF-2 pathway’ – ‘Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy’ doi: 10.1016/j.biopha.2019.108637 Lauren J. Tomlinson, Alice K. M. Clubbs Coldron, Patrick A. Eyers, Claire E. Eyers ‘Determination of Phosphohistidine Stoichiometry in Histidine Kinases by Intact Mass Spectrometry’ – ‘MIMB, volume 2077’ doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9884-5_6 Lauren Tomlinson, Lauren Hyndman, James W. Firman, Robert Bentley, Jonathan A. Kyffin, Steven D. Webb, Sean McGinty, Parveen Sharma ‘In vitro Liver Zonation of Primary Rat Hepatocytes’ – ‘Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol’ doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2019.00017 Thomas M. D. Sheard, Sanjay R. Kharche, Christian Pinali, Holly A. Shiels ‘3D ultrastructural organisation of calcium release units in the avian sarcoplasmic reticulum’ – ‘Journal of Experimental Biology’ doi: 10.1242/jeb.197640 Molinari, E., Ramsbottom, S. A., Srivastava, S., Booth, P., Alkanderi, S., McLafferty, S. M., Devlin, L. A., White, K., Gunay-Aygun, M., Miles, C. G. and Sayer, J. A. 'Targeted exon skipping rescues ciliary protein composition defects in Joubert syndrome patient fibroblasts' – ‘Scientific Reports’ doi:10.1038/s41598-019-47243-z. Ajuwon, V., Ali, S.-E., Ashra, N., Banas, C., Barasa, S., Bhalla, S. R., Chakrabarty, A., Elelu, N., Ha, K. P., Ihekwaba, N., Mirza, N., Said, S., Sarmin, A., Sarveswaran, N., Simon, A. and Vallath, S. (2019) ‘Workforce Diversity: Let’s talk about race’ - eLife, 12 April. Available at: https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/313036d9/workforce-diversity-let-s-talk-about-race. Ali, S.-E., Waddington, J. C., Park, B. K. and Meng, X. 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University of LeedsiCASE05_2024: Skeletal muscle-blood vessel crosstalk drives muscle pathology during heart failure and diabetes (Prof Lee Roberts) iCASE07_2024: Precision medicine for treatment of VEXAS syndrome (Dr Sinisa Savic) iCASE09_2024: Hitting the target: creating tractable target proteins without losing function for the Biopharmaceutical Sector (Prof David Brockwell) iCASE10_2024: Save Our Souls: Allosteric inhibitors of Sos for targeting Ras-driven cancers using fragment-based drug discovery with structure-driven medicinal chemistry (Prof Alexander Breeze) iCASE25_2024: Channelling the “hole” story: future pandemic Coronavirus therapeutics through integrated understanding of virus-encoded ion channel electrophysiology (Prof Stephen Griffin) Standard01_2024: Developing an innovative approach for the detection of invasive fungal infections. (Dr Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso) Standard04_2024: Curing brain cancer one cell at a time: spatial, single cell transcriptomic analysis of glioblastoma brain tumour treatment response (Dr Lucy Stead) Standard05_2024: Alpha-synuclein amyloid in Parkinson's disease: using nanoinjection as a tool to study alpha-synuclein amyloid toxicity inside neurons(Dr Eric Hewitt) Standard08_2024: Could a ketogenic diet be used to treat glioblastoma? (Prof Richard Callaghan) Standard10_2024: The multifaceted role of CKS1 in multiple myeloma and new therapeutic frontiers in proteostatic targeting (Prof Gordon Cook) Standard12_2024: Antiviral nano medicine: a new approach to target emerging viral threats to human health (Dr Yuan Guo) Standard14_2024: Nanoscale structural mapping of protein aggregates in human disease (Dr Paolo Actis) Standard17_2024: Targeting the bacterial outer membrane as a new route to treat bacterial infections (Dr Antonio Calabrese) Standard19_2024: Seeing inside the Parkinson’s disease brain by in situ cryoET (Dr Rene Frank) Standard23_2024: Chemical probes for real-time visualisation of calcium-sensing receptor trafficking during inflammation (Dr Megan Wright) Standard25_2024: Biochemical and structural analysis of biomolecular condensates as reaction crucibles for neurodegeneration (Prof. Sheena Radford) Standard27_2024: Using wearable technology and biophysical measurements to personalise cancer therapy. (Dr Sharib Ali) Standard29_2024: You are only as old as your arteries – how targeting BACE1 in blood vessels could be the key to healthy aging (Dr Paul Meakin) Standard30_2024: Assessment of diabetic foot health using machine-learning to identify abnormal plantar load profiles (Prof Peter Culmer) Standard32_2024: Ubiquitin signalling regulation and inhibition in autoimmune disease (Prof Elton Zeqiraj) Standard40_2024: Using CRISPR screens to reveal the critical differences in radiotherapy and survival between HPV positive and HPV negative anal cancers (Prof Andrew Macdonald)
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University of LiverpooliCASE14_2024: Evaluation of novel therapeutics for the treatment of severe skin blistering adverse drug reactions (Dr Dan Carr). iCASE15_2024: Improving chemical and immunological assessment to drive safer development of the new breed of drugs: PROTACs. (Dr Xiaoli Meng) iCASE23_2024: Understanding how uveal melanoma cells render themselves invisible to- and manipulate the immune system to survive within the eye and liver. (Prof. Sarah Coupland) iCASE24_2024: Cardiovascular function around the clock: harnessing protective circadian mechanisms towards smarter design of novel retinoid therapies and lifestyle interventions. (Dr Vanja Pekovic-Vaughan) iCASE26_2024: Investigating synthetic teixobactins to tackle Multi-Drug Resistant MRSA Keratitis ( Dr Ishwar Singh) iCASE27_2024: Therapeutics for the next pandemic (Prof. James Stewart). Standard47_2024: Niemann-Pick type C (NPC) disease: full characterization of pH on megamitochondria engulfing lysosome (MMEL) under hypoxia. (Dr Massimiliano Stagi) Standard48_2024: Digital twins of clotting and lysis for precision medicine (Dr Wahbi El-Bouri) Standard58_2024: Matrix driven reprogramming of pancreatic cancer metabolism (Dr Tobias Zech) Standard61_2024: Seeking improved outcomes in pancreatic cancer: Applying multi-omic data analysis approaches to explore the biology underpinning pancreatic cancer-related diabetes. (Prof. Eithne Costello) Standard63_2024: Bioengineering a mucoadhesive composite for the delivery of chemotherapy to treat eye cancer. (Dr Victoria Kearns) Standard69_2024: Molecular mechanisms underlying age-related repair deficiencies of axonal microtubules: is EB1 phosphorylation the key? (Dr Igor Barsukov) Standard70_2024: Chromatin regulation of oncogenic transcription and replication stress: mechanism and functional implications in acute myeloid leukemia.. (Dr Manolis Papamichos Chronakis) Standard73_2024: Ageing, epilepsy, and the microtubule cytoskeleton: a novel trio in brain research. (Dr Natalia Sanchez Soriano) Standard74_2024: Designing Early Detection AI Diagnostic Tools for Age-related Macular Degeneration (Dr Ceniz Zihni) Standard75_2024: Using Deep Learning-based tools to better understand the interactions of viral proteins with host cells (Prof. Dan Rigden). Standard77_2024: Understanding thrombotic events in atrial fibrillation: how do neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs), cell-free histones and DNA contribute to poor outcomes. (Dr Simon Abrams)
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Newcastle UniversityiCASE03_2024: Targeting complement component 5 to reduce neuroinflammation and treat Alzheimer’s disease with new chemical and microscopy tools. (Dr Adam Wollman) Standard82_2024: The nucleolus in the mammalian oocyte; form or function (Dr Suzanne Madgwick) Standard83_2024: Investigating the adaptive resistance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa raised from antibiotic persistence (Dr Chien-Yi Chang) Standard84_2024: The role of the human microbiome and lifestyle in colorectal cancer (Prof Colin Rees) Standard86_2024: How does a single microRNA control bone turnover? (Prof. David Young) Standard87_2024: Why do autoimmune diseases relapse and remit? Investigating the role of antigen-specific B cells (Prof. Simon Pearce) Standard89_2024: Stopping superbugs sleeping cells: revealing molecular machines of sporulation at atomic level. (Professor Paula Salgado). Standard91_2024: Targeting the consequences of expressing the wrong cell-type specific genes in leukaemia (Dr Lisa Russell) Standard92_2024: Uncovering the role of the chromatin remodelling enzyme SET1B in the cellular response to hypoxia and inflammation. (Dr Brian Ortmann). Standard93_2024: Finding the sweet regulators of immunotherapy resistance in prostate cancer (Dr Emma Scott) Standard97_2024: Kinase inhibition reverses glucocorticoid resistance through upregulation of the glucocorticoid receptor transcriptional programme in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. (Dr Frederik van Delft) Standard98_2024: Dissecting the molecular mechanisms driving antifungal drug resistance and immune evasion in an aged Candida albicans population. (Dr Alessandra Da Silva Dantas) Standard100_2024: Gaining insights from epidemiology, advanced analytics and big data to develop preventive strategies to improve health outcomes in ageing and multimorbidity. (Dr Dexter Canoy) Standard103_2024: Leveraging real-world patient survival data to identify novel therapeutic drug targets for acute myeloid leukaemia (Prof. James Allan) Standard106_2024: In vivo modelling to develop novel therapies against neurocognitive deficits in childhood cancer survivors (Dr Debbie Hicks) Standard111_2024: Metabolic barcoding of microbial antibiotic exposomes (Dr Katherine Duncan). Standard112_2024: Dissecting the role of microglia in type I interferon-mediated neurological disease (Dr Christopher Duncan). Standard115_2024: Stress response and resilience for longevity: sex and mitochondria (Dr Satomi Miwa) Standard124_2024: Establishment of models of aberrant ALK regulation during normal human sympathetic nervous system development. (Prof. Deborah Tweddle) Standard126_2024: Drawing the line between life and death: the role of DNA damage in Staphylococcal infections. (Dr Charles Winterhalter)
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University of SheffieldiCASE17_2024: Enabling safe and efficient generation of stem cell-based therapies (Prof. Ivana Barbaric) Standard129_2024: Imaging single base-pair damage on single molecules to find out how exactly radiotherapy and chemotherapies work. (Dr Helen Bryant). Standard130_2024: Deconvoluting the spatial multi-omic landscape of high-grade glioma to target post-surgical residual disease. (Dr Spencer Collis) Standard132_2024: Understanding the role of extracellular matrix remodelling in ovarian cancer metastasis (Dr Elena Rainero) Standard134_2024: Understanding the mechanisms associated with mitochondria dysfunction underpinning both age-related hearing loss and neurodegenerative diseases. (Prof. Walter Marcotti) Standard135_2024: Targeting the DNA damage response to overcome cancer dormancy and chemotherapy-resistance (Dr Alanna Green) Standard137_2024: Understanding S. pneumoniae penicillin resistance through the development of c-di-AMP capture and biosensor compounds (Dr David Williams) Standard138_2024: Optogenetic modeling of a hallmark neurodegeneration pathology for mechanistic research and drug discovery. (Dr Tatyana Shelkovnikova) Standard139_2024: Decoding Protein Dysfunctions in Alzheimer's Disease: Unravelling Mechanisms and Exploring Therapeutic Strategies. (Dr Suman De) Standard141_2024: Brain and bone: deciphering the connection [BRONE Study] (Dr Meena Balasubramanian) Standard142_2024: Development of novel cold atmospheric plasma-mediated drug delivery for targeted anti-cancer therapy (Dr Helen Colley) Standard144_2024: Neuroepigenetic augmentation of kinesin function as an anti-ageing treatment for neurons. (Dr Alison Twelvetrees) Standard148_2024: Targeting Salmonella subversion of cellular senescence to combat antimicrobial-resistant typhoid fever (Dr Daniel Humphreys) Standard150_2024: Developing novel gene therapy approaches to inhibit the unconventional translation of neurotoxic dipeptide-repeat proteins in pre-clinical models of C9ORF72-ALS/FTD (Prof. Guillaume Hautbergue) Standard151_2024: Functional biomechanical assessment of treatment efficacy in Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Prof. Christopher McDermott)
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University of YorkiCASE18_2024: The ubiquitin-proteosome system and drug discovery for leishmaniasis. (Prof. Jeremy Mottram) iCASE19_2024: Engineered Magnetic Nanoparticles for Targeted Delivery of Therapeutic Proteins (Prof Victor Chechik) iCASE22_2024: Clinical movement markers of osteoarthritis for treatment with regenerative medicine (Dr Adar Pelah) iCASE28_2024: Exploring cancer transcriptomes with Nanopore long-read sequencing (Prof. Dimitris Lagos) Standard155_2024: Illuminating the Future of Breast Cancer Therapeutics: Applying Synthetic Biology's UV Crosslinking Amino Acids for Drug Target Discovery. (Dr Andrew Holding) Standard157_2024: Targeting the ionic tumour microenvironment: repurposing sodium channel blocking antiarrhythmic drugs to suppress breast cancer metastasis (Dr William Brackenbury) Standard158_2024: Bioelectronics and bioelectricity of cancer cells: developing a platform to investigate the role of ion channels using organic bioelectronics and high-content image analysis. (Dr Stuart Higgins) Standard160_2024: Who shakes hands with the enemy? Discovering which subsets of mesenchymal stromal cells support acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) cell growth in the bone marrow. (Prof. Adele Fielding) Standard161_2024: A therapeutic molecular toolbox to control CKS1 in healthy and malignant stem cells (Dr Christopher Spicer). Standard163_2024: Targeting antibiotic resistance: anatomy of a genome maintenance machine at the biology-physics interface (Professor Daniela Barillà) Standard165_2024: Tissue regeneration using nano-biologics. Prof Paul Genever Standard171_2024: Precision assessment of human spatial memory: application to early detection of Alzheimer’s Disease (Dr Tom Hartley). Standard173_2024: New Experimental Approaches for Understanding Blood Cancers (Prof. David Kent) Standard175_2024: Utilising cellular antioxidant adaptations to develop colorectal cancer theranostics. (Dr Sangeeta Chawla) Standard176_2024: Understanding spatio-temporal GSK-3β activity in hematopoietic stem cells to improve regenerative medicine. (Dr Ines Hahn) Standard177_2024: Engineering mosquitoes to provide no-cold-chain delivery of vaccines . (Prof Luke Alphey) Standard179_2024: Discovery of new immunoregulatory signalling pathways to treat autoimmunity, infectious disease, and cancer. (Prof Gavin Wright)
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Do I need to pass the English language requirement at the application stage?All international applicants are required to have an internationally recognised English language qualification such as IELTS or equivalent. This does not need to be submitted at time of application but we recommend obtaining the qualification as soon as possible, the minimum standard within our partner institutions is an overall IELTS grade of 6.5 with a minimum of 6.0 in each component, or equivalent.
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Can I study for a DiMeN PhD part time?The majority of projects advertised are feasible part-time, however not all of them due to the specific experimental work commitments and you would need to discuss this as an option with the supervisory team before applying. International students must also consider UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) restrictions and contact the host university international office for advice. Part-time study can only be at 50% of full time, so our 4 year programme would be spread over 8 years and stipend funding at 50% per payment. This has implications on Council tax as part-time students are no longer exempt. It is possible to switch to part-time during your PhD according to personal circumstances and this is reviewed locally, on a case-by-case basis.
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Can I apply if I am not from the United Kingdom?We accept applications from UK and International applicants, however due to MRC funding conditions, awards to non-UK residents are capped at 30% per intake year (up to 12 places). To be classed as a home student, candidates must meet the following criteria: • Be a UK National (meeting residency requirements), or • Have settled status, or • Have pre-settled status (meeting residency requirements), or • Have indefinite leave to remain or enter If a candidate does not meet the criteria above, they would be classed as an International student.
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I am an international student, will the tuition fees be covered?We welcome applications from international candidates. If successful, international students will receive additional funding to cover the international tuition fees for the full 4 years. Please be aware there will be additional costs for your Visa application, UK healthcare cover and international travel that we do not provide as standard. Once an offer is made, these can be discussed with the supervisory team and reviewed on a case-by-case basis.