DTP projects
Available Projects
Please see below the sample projects; please contact the associated supervisor(s) for further information and visiting the B-DTP webpage for details on how to apply.
NB: There may be other projects that are of interest to you that do not form part of the B-DTP programme this year. You can find other potential projects by visiting our Research pages or by contacting a member of academic staff in your area of interest.
| Project Title | Supervisor(s) |
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| A synthetic biology approach to engineer microbial communities | Dr Rodrigo Ledesma Amaro |
| At the core of the homunculus: How can we use machine learning as a way to quantitatively model human skill learning. | Dr Aldo Faisal |
| Biophysics of mechano-electrical transduction in the inner ear | Dr Andrei Kozlov |
| Biosensors for cancer diagnosis | Dr Danny O’Hare Dr Sylvain Ladame |
| Cancer perfusion and molecular imaging using high resolution contrast enhanced ultrasound | Professor Mengxing Tang |
| Cells on chips: new approaches to cancer biology | Dr Danny O’Hare |
| Computation of Intracellular Spatiotemporal Dynamics by means of Ultra-Low-Power Microelectronics | Professor Manos Drakakis |
| Computational modelling of decision making | Dr Claudia Clopath |
| Computational study of arterial blood flow and disease | Professor Peter D Weinberg |
| Construction of a multi-element ultrasonic surgery device | Dr James Choi |
| Design, engineering, and validation of a microfluidic device for early detection of pancreatic cancer | Dr Armando E. del Río Hernández Professor Manos Drakakis |
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Developing technology to evaluate surgical procedures in the foot and ankle |
Dr Angela Kedgley Dr Spyros Masouros |
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DNA binding rates as a function of sequence |
Dr Thomas Ouldridge |
| Dr Christina Warboys | |
| Effect of flow-induced wall shear stress on lymphatic endothelial cells | Professor Jimmy Moore |
| Electroencephalographic (EEG) window into tactile sensing | Dr Tobias Reichenbach Professor Etienne Burdet |
| Engineered DNA aptamers for allosteric inhibition of human Poly(ADP-ribose)polymerase-1 (hPARP-1): a new therapy for prostate cancer | Dr Sylvain Ladame Professor Tony Cass (Chemistry) Professor Charlotte Bevan (Surgery and Cancer) |
| Engineering fast, flexible, precise, and parallel light sculpting for neural circuit elucidation | Dr Amanda Foust |
| Fetal movements as biomarkers of prenatal brain development | Dr Niamh Nowlan Dr Bernhard Kainz (Department of Computing) |
| Fluid dynamics of active hair bundles in the inner ear | Dr Tobias Reichenbach Dr Chiu Fan Lee |
| Gaussian processes for analysis of spatial memory in the mouse hippocampus | Professor Simon Schultz |
| Growth Plate Mechanobiology | Professor Anthony Bull |
| Haptic SLAM prosthetic and humanoid robotic hands | Dr Aldo Faisal |
| Haptics Mediated Sensorimotor Interaction in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) | Professor Etienne Burdet Dr Ravi Vaidyanathan (Mechanical Engineering) Dr Chiara Nosarti (King's College London; Psychosis Studies) |
| How do auditory cortical neurons represent natural stimuli? Characterising stimulus feature selectivity and invariance | Dr Andrei Kozlov |
| High-throughtput surface tension measurement using optical method | Dr Chiu Fan Lee |
| Hydrogel-based devices for automated recovery of RNA biomarkers from blood | Dr Sylvain Ladame |
| Learning algorithms in deep artificial neural network | Dr Claudia Clopath |
| Lymph Node Transport Phenomena in Health and Disease | Professor Jimmy Moore |
| Machine Learning for Surgical Planning | Dr Anil Bharath |
| Medical Implant: Soft robotic actuator for tracheal intubation | Dr Firat Guder |
| Miniaturised Electronics for the Multi-Modal Monitoring of the Injured Human Brain | Professor Manos Drakakis |
| Model predictive control to design optimal treatment regimens for dermatitis. | Dr Reiko Tanaka |
| Musculoskeletal Biomechanics of the Hand | Dr Angela Kedgley |
| Nanostructured interfaces for biocompatible biosensors | Dr Danny O'Hare |
| Neurorehabilitation of the hand function after microsurgery | Professor Etienne Burdet Dr Angela Kedgley Dr Dona Kennedy (Surgery & Cancer) |
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Non-invasive computed tomography of brain using ultrasound |
Professor Mengxing Tang |
| Plant on a Chip: Development of a low-cost and simple growth environment for plants | Dr Firat Guder |
| Recapitulating skeletogenesis in vitro: biomechanics and mechanobiology of cartilage and bone development | Dr Niamh Nowlan |
| Soft-robotics and neural interfaces for fine grained hand control | Dr Aldo Faisal |
| Statistical testing of orthopaedic implant design using shape models | Professor Anthony Bull |
| The Multiphase Nature of Microscale Blood Flow | Dr Joseph Sherwood |
| Tracking axons with generative adversarial imitation learning | Dr Anil Bharath |
| Two photon imaging of neuronal cell assemblies during behaviour | Professor Simon Schultz |
| Understanding the biomechanics of pancreatic cancer – a turning point for treatment | Dr Armando E. del Río Hernández |
| Virtual Reality based Neurofeedback using EEG-fNIRS sensordata fusion | Dr Aldo Faisal |