Flexible funding examples

Greetings! My name is Krishna, and I am a third year student at the University of Sheffield. My PhD project involves the mechanistics of how viruses known as bacteriophages interact with the cell surface of Enterococcal bacteria. These bacteriophages specifically target bacteria living in the digestive systems of humans and animals.  We particularly focus on how these viruses use a complex sugar structure on the bacterial surface called Enterococcal Polysaccharide Antigen (EP

My project at the University of Newcastle researches Rheumatoid Arthritis and how we can monitor the immune response over the course of treatment. I have been involved in conducting a clinical trial for a type of therapy called ‘cellular dendritic cell therapy’ which aims to make the immune system more tolerant of its own peptides and reduce the inflammatory response - a kind of autoimmune immunisation. As a treatment it is currently still in the research and clinical trial p

I'm Kirsty, a second year PhD student at Newcastle University. My project is focused on creating drugs that are able to inhibit the Complement system (part of the body's immune system). Complement has been implicated in a range of diseases and my interest is in its role in neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease. Neuroinflammation in these diseases can be harmful rather than protective as the immune system is overactivated and damages the body's own cells. I