The EPSRC University Doctoral Landscape Award funded PhD projects in the Faculty of Medicine are listed below under each mini-cohort. PhD projects within each mini-cohort are aligned to a collaborative, cross-departmental, multi-disciplinary programme of research that integrate the medical and physical sciences.
Deep mapping of the myocardium at scale (Cohort Lead: Dr Andrew Scott, National Heart and Lung Institute)
- Computational simulation driven in-vivo microvascular characterisation
- Investigating cardiac muscle microstructural changes as early marker of cardiac ageing and of cardiac disease development
- Multimodal 3D Reconstruction of the Human Heart to Uncover Links Between Structure, Gene Expression, and Cellular Niches
- Tbc - Acoustoelectric Imaging for Transmural Ventricular Activation Mapping and 4D Substrate Characterisation
Primary supervisor: Dr Andrew Scott, National Lung and Heart Institute
Co-supervisor: Professor Denis Doorly, Department of Aeronautics
Full title: Computational simulation driven in-vivo microvascular characterisation
Application deadline: TBC
Primary supervisor: Dr Sonia Nielles-Vallespin, National Lung and Heart Institute
Co-supervisor: Professor Daniel Rueckert, Department of Computing
Co-supervisor: Dr Pedro Ferreira, National Lung and Heart Institute
Application deadline: TBC
Full title: Investigating cardiac muscle microstructural changes as early marker of cardiac
ageing and of cardiac disease development
Primary supervisor: Dr Michela Noseda, National Heart and Lung Institute
Co-supervisor: Dr Chris Cantwell, Department of Aeronautics
Co-supervisor: Dr Sonia Nielles-Vallespin, National Heart and Lung Institute
Full title: Multimodal 3D Reconstruction of the Human Heart to Uncover Links Between Structure, Gene Expression, and Cellular Niches
Application deadline: TBC
The studentship for this project is yet to be confirmed
Primary supervisor: Professor Fu Siong Ng, National Lung and Heart Institute
Co-supervisor: Dr Carlos Cueto, Department of Earth Science and Engineering
Co-supervisor: Professor Mengxing Tang, Department of Bioengineering
Application deadline: TBC
Synthetic cells (SynCells) as a smart-responsive healthcare technology (Cohort Lead: Dr Ravinash Krishna Kumar, Department of Infectious Disease
- Synthetic tissues for combatting antimicrobial resistant biofilms
- Microenvironment-Remodelling Synthetic Cells for Cancer Drug Delivery
- Extracellular vesicle RNA signatures as biomarkers for in situ activation of synthetic cell therapeutics
- Engineering synthetic vesicle platforms for programmable immune training and vaccine delivery
Primary supervisor: Dr Ravinash Krishna Kumar, Department of Infectious Disease
Co-supervisor: Professor Doryen Bubeck, Department of Life Sciences
Project partner 1: Croda Europe Ltd
Full title: Synthetic tissues for combatting antimicrobial resistant biofilms
Application deadline: TBC
Primary supervisor: Professor Charlotte Bevan, Department of Surgery & Cancer
Co-supervisor: Professor Oscar Ces, Department of Chemistry
Project partner 1: Croda Europe Ltd
Full title: Microenvironment-Remodelling Synthetic Cells for Cancer Drug Delivery
Application deadline: TBC
Primary supervisor: Dr Beth Holder, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction
Co-supervisor: Dr Yuval Elani, Department of Chemical Engineering
Project partner 1: Croda Europe Ltd
Application deadline: TBC
Full title: Extracellular vesicle RNA signatures as biomarkers for in situ activation of synthetic cell therapeutics
Primary Supervisor: Professor John Tregoning , Department of Infectious Disease
co-supervisor: Dr Claudia Contini, Department of Life Sciences
Project partner 1: Croda Europe Ltd
Application deadline: TBC
Full title: Engineering synthetic vesicle platforms for programmable immune training and vaccine delivery
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