Clinical Sciences
How to find a research supervisor
Research supervisors are either staff members of the University, or based in one of the research units or institutions associated with the University.
Supervisors are in high demand and may not be able to respond to your enquiry immediately, so please be patient. Some may already be supervising the maximum number of PhD students they can, and won’t be able to take on any new students.
Browse potential research supervisors:
accepting applications from prospective postgraduate students
accepting applications from summer students
Supervisors accepting applications from prospective Postgraduate Students:
Professor Antonis Antoniou
Public Health and Primary Care
Topic: Cancer genetic epidemiology, cancer risk modelling, genetic epidemiology of BRCA1, BRCA2 and other cancer susceptibility genes
Email: aca20@cam.ac.uk
Professor Martin Bennett
Department of Medicine (Division of Cardiovascular Medicine)
Topic: Regulation of vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation and apoptosis
Email: mrb24@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Professor James Brenton
Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)
Topic: Ovarian cancer prognostic markers predictive markers bioinformaticsexpression profiling clinical trial design using molecular end points
Email: james.brenton@cruk.cam.ac.uk
Dr Will Brown
Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Personalising treatment in multiple sclerosis
Email: wb255@cam.ac.uk
Dr Harry Bulstrode
Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Topic: Neural Stem Cell and Microenvironment Biology
Email: hb252@cam.ac.uk
Professor D Stephen Charnock-Jones
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Topic: Placental development high throughput sequencing genomics regulation of endothelial cell function in health and disease translational research
Email: dscj1@cam.ac.uk
Dr Maria Chondronikola
Clinical Biochemistry
Topic: Human nutritional physiology and experimental medicine
Email: mc2425@cam.ac.uk
Professor Alasdair Coles
Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Neurology Unit)
Topic: Remyelination
Email: ajc1020@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Jonathan Coles
Department of Medicine
Topic: Mechanisms responsible for secondary neuronal injury, their temporal profile, and implications for eventual neurocognitive recovery following head injury (TBI).
Email: jpc44@cam.ac.uk
Professor Francesco Colucci
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Topic: Immunology of reproduction, Infections, Cancer
Email: fc287@cam.ac.uk
Professor Sadaf Farooqi
Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Topic: Molecular mechanisms in human obesity
Email: isf20@cam.ac.uk
Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea
Department of Psychiatry
Topic: Biological and clinical aspects of chronic schizophrenia
Email: ef280@cam.ac.uk
Professor Tamsin Ford
Department of Psychiatry
Topic: Interventional epidemiology - children and young people's mental health
Email: tjf52@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Nita Forouhi
MRC Epidemiology Unit
Topic: Nutritional Epidemiology in relation to diabetes and obesity
Email: nita.forouhi@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Dr James Fraser
Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Cardiac and skeletal muscle excitability in health and disease
Email: jaf21@cam.ac.uk
Professor Paul Freeman
Veterinary Medicine
Topic: Intervertebral disc disease
Email: pf266@cam.ac.uk
Dr Eric Harshfield
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Multi-omics for prediction of vascular dementia and other vascular neurodegenerative diseases, and prioritisation of therapeutic targets for prevention and treatment
Email: eh457@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Mr Adel Helmy
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Traumatic Brain Injury, Inflammation, Subarachnoid Haemorrhage, Neurosurgery
Email: aeh33@cam.ac.uk
Dr Jane Ladlow
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Topic: Small animal surgery
Email: jfl1001@cam.ac.uk
Professor Hugh Markus
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Molecular genetic and imaging techniques to investigate the pathogenesis of stroke with a particular focus on cerebral small vessel disease
Email: hsm32@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Virginia Newcombe
Medicine
Topic: Use of advanced imaging and biomarkers to understand traumatic brain injury.
Email: vfjn2@cam.ac.uk
Dr Meritxell Nus
Department of Medicine
Topic: Atherosclerosis, B and T cells, diet, gut microbiota.
Email: mn421@cam.ac.uk
Professor Ken Ong
MRC Epidemiology Unit / Department of Paediatrics
Topic: Childhood obesity, growth and development, and relationships to adult metabolic disease
Email: ken.ong@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Professor Stephen O'Rahilly
Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Topic: The endocrine control of metabolism in health and disease
Email: so104@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Manav Pathania
Department of Oncology
Topic: Brain tumours
Email: mp915@cam.ac.uk
Professor Stefano Pluchino
Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: regenerative neuroimmunology; progressive multiple sclerosis; cellular senescence; mitochondrial metabolism;
Email: spp24@cam.ac.uk
Dr Heidi Radke
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Topic: Orthopaedics in cats and dogs
Email: hr264@cam.ac.uk
Dr Eleanor Raffan
Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Metabolic disease and obesity - molecular, genetic and physiological insights from spontaneous veterinary models of disease. Also interspecies communication!
Email: er311@cam.ac.uk
Professor Lucy Raymond
Department of Medical Genetics (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Topic: The genetic basis of intellectual disability
Email: flr24@cam.ac.uk
Dr James Rowe
Clinical Neurosciences & MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Topic: The relationship between motor and cognitive processes in healthy subjects and neurodegenerative disease; overlap between disorders of movement and cognition; functional changes associated with disease; assessment of potential surrogate indices of the efficacy of candidate therapies; cognitive architecture for response selection and voluntary action; fMRI PET rTMS and MEG.
Email: james.rowe@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Professor James Rudd
Department of Medicine (Division of Cardiovascular Medicine)
Topic: Non-invasive imaging can quantify and track inflammation in human and animal vascular disease
Email: jhfr2@cam.ac.uk
Dr Milka Sarris
Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Immune cells and how they navigate through tissues in vivo to mount inflammatory responses
Email: ms543@cam.ac.uk
Professor David Savage
Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Topic: Mechanisms of insulin resistance
Email: dbs23@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Professor Stephen Sawcer
Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Neurology Unit)
Topic: The Genetic Analysis of Multiple Sclerosis
Email: sjs1016@cam.ac.uk
Professor Sanjay Sinha
Deparment of Medicine
Topic: Cardiovascular disease modelling and regenerative medicine
Email: ss661@cam.ac.uk
Dr Peter Smielewski
Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Neurosurgery Unit)
Topic: Mathematical modelling supported monitoring and diagnostics of intracranial dynamics: brain injury and hydrocephalus
Email: ps10011@cam.ac.uk
Mr Martin Snead
Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Pathogenesis, prevention and repair of retinal detachment.
Email: mps34@cam.ac.uk
Professor Charlotte Summers
Medicine
Topic: Mechanisms of acute and chronic lung and systemic vascular inflammation; acute hyperaemic respiratory failure
Email: cs493@cam.ac.uk
Dr Mark Toshner
Department of Medicine
Topic: Pulmonary hypertension
Email: mrt34@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Jelle van den Ameele
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Neural stem cell metabolism, mitochondrial genetics, gene expression, chromatin, mitochondrial disease
Email: jv361@cam.ac.uk
Professor Antonio Vidal-Puig
Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Topic: Molecular mechanisms of energy balance
Email: ajv22@cam.ac.uk
Professor Nicholas Wareham
MRC Epidemiology Unit
Topic: Aetiology and Mechanisms of Diabetes and Related Metabolic Disorders of Later Life
Email: nick.wareham@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Dr Varun Warrier
Psychiatry
Topic: Neurodevelopmental conditions, genetics, big data, machine learning/AI, neuroimaging genetics, longitudinal data analyses
Email: vw260@cam.ac.ul
Dr Jonathan Weir-McCall
Department of Radiology
Topic: Cardiothoracic imaging particularly in the use of CT and MRI
Email: jw2079@cam.ac.uk
Professor Ian Wilkinson
Department of Medicine (Division of Clinical Pharmacology)
Topic: Endothelial cell biology large artery haemodynamics and hypertension: clinical investigation
Email: ibw20@cam.ac.uk
Dr Caroline Williams-Gray
Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: The role of the immune system in Parkinson’s disease
Email: chm27@cam.ac.uk
Dr Patrick Yu-Wai-Man
Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Mitochondrial eye diseases; inherited optic neuropathies; gene therapy
Email: py237@cam.ac.uk
Dr Shahid Zaman
Psychiatry
Topic: Dementia in Intellectual disability especially in Down syndrome
Email: shz10@cam.ac.uk
Professor Matthias Zilbauer
Stem Cell Institute
Topic: Intestinal stem cell biology and human health and disease
Email: mz304@cam.ac.uk
Research supervisors accepting applications from summer students
Professor Antonis Antoniou
Public Health and Primary Care
Topic: Cancer genetic epidemiology, cancer risk modelling, genetic epidemiology of BRCA1, BRCA2 and other cancer susceptibility genes
Email: aca20@cam.ac.uk
Professor Martin Bennett
Department of Medicine (Division of Cardiovascular Medicine)
Topic: Regulation of vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation and apoptosis
Email: mrb24@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Will Brown
Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Personalising treatment in multiple sclerosis
Email: wb255@cam.ac.uk
Dr Harry Bulstrode
Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Topic: Neural Stem Cell and Microenvironment Biology
Email: hb252@cam.ac.uk
Professor D Stephen Charnock-Jones
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Topic: Placental development high throughput sequencing genomics regulation of endothelial cell function in health and disease translational research
Email: dscj1@cam.ac.uk
Dr Jonathan Coles
Department of Medicine
Topic: Mechanisms responsible for secondary neuronal injury, their temporal profile, and implications for eventual neurocognitive recovery following head injury (TBI).
Email: jpc44@cam.ac.uk
Professor Francesco Colucci
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Topic: Immunology of reproduction, Infections, Cancer
Email: fc287@cam.ac.uk
Professor Sadaf Farooqi
Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Topic: Molecular mechanisms in human obesity
Email: isf20@cam.ac.uk
Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea
Department of Psychiatry
Topic: Biological and clinical aspects of chronic schizophrenia
Email: ef280@cam.ac.uk
Professor Tamsin Ford
Department of Psychiatry
Topic: Interventional epidemiology - children and young people's mental health
Email: tjf52@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Nita Forouhi
MRC Epidemiology Unit
Topic: Nutritional Epidemiology in relation to diabetes and obesity
Email: nita.forouhi@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Dr James Fraser
Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Cardiac and skeletal muscle excitability in health and disease
Email: jaf21@cam.ac.uk
Professor Paul Freeman
Veterinary Medicine
Topic: Intervertebral disc disease
Email: pf266@cam.ac.uk
Dr Jane Ladlow
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Topic: Small animal surgery
Email: jfl1001@cam.ac.uk
Professor Hugh Markus
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Molecular genetic and imaging techniques to investigate the pathogenesis of stroke with a particular focus on cerebral small vessel disease
Email: hsm32@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Virginia Newcombe
Medicine
Topic: Use of advanced imaging and biomarkers to understand traumatic brain injury.
Email: vfjn2@cam.ac.uk
Dr Meritxell Nus
Department of Medicine
Topic: Atherosclerosis, B and T cells, diet, gut microbiota.
Email: mn421@cam.ac.uk
Professor Stephen O'Rahilly
Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Topic: The endocrine control of metabolism in health and disease
Email: so104@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Professor Stefano Pluchino
Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: regenerative neuroimmunology; progressive multiple sclerosis; cellular senescence; mitochondrial metabolism;
Email: spp24@cam.ac.uk
Dr Heidi Radke
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Topic: Orthopaedics in cats and dogs
Email: hr264@cam.ac.uk
Dr Eleanor Raffan
Physiology, Development and Neuroscience & Institute of Metabolic Science
Topic: Metabolic disease including obesity - molecular, genetic and physiological aspects; animal genetics
Email: er311@cam.ac.uk
Professor Lucy Raymond
Department of Medical Genetics (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Topic: The genetic basis of intellectual disability
Email: flr24@cam.ac.uk
Dr James Rowe
Clinical Neurosciences & MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Topic: The relationship between motor and cognitive processes in healthy subjects and neurodegenerative disease; overlap between disorders of movement and cognition; functional changes associated with disease; assessment of potential surrogate indices of the efficacy of candidate therapies; cognitive architecture for response selection and voluntary action; fMRI PET rTMS and MEG.
Email: james.rowe@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Professor James Rudd
Department of Medicine (Division of Cardiovascular Medicine)
Topic: Non-invasive imaging can quantify and track inflammation in human and animal vascular disease
Email: jhfr2@cam.ac.uk
Dr Milka Sarris
Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Immune cells and how they navigate through tissues in vivo to mount inflammatory responses
Email: ms543@cam.ac.uk
Professor David Savage
Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Topic: Mechanisms of insulin resistance
Email: dbs23@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Professor Stephen Sawcer
Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Neurology Unit)
Topic: The Genetic Analysis of Multiple Sclerosis
Email: sjs1016@cam.ac.uk
Dr Peter Smielewski
Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Neurosurgery Unit)
Topic: Mathematical modelling supported monitoring and diagnostics of intracranial dynamics: brain injury and hydrocephalus
Email: ps10011@cam.ac.uk
Professor Charlotte Summers
Medicine
Topic: Mechanisms of acute and chronic lung and systemic vascular inflammation; acute hyperaemic respiratory failure
Email: cs493@cam.ac.uk
Dr Jelle van den Ameele
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Neural stem cell metabolism, mitochondrial genetics, gene expression, chromatin, mitochondrial disease
Email: jv361@cam.ac.uk
Professor Antonio Vidal-Puig
Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Topic: Molecular mechanisms of energy balance
Email: ajv22@cam.ac.uk
Professor Nicholas Wareham
MRC Epidemiology Unit
Topic: Aetiology and Mechanisms of Diabetes and Related Metabolic Disorders of Later Life
Email: nick.wareham@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Dr Varun Warrier
Psychiatry
Topic: Neurodevelopmental conditions, genetics, big data, machine learning/AI, neuroimaging genetics, longitudinal data analyses
Email: vw260@cam.ac.ul
Professor Ian Wilkinson
Department of Medicine (Division of Clinical Pharmacology)
Topic: Endothelial cell biology large artery haemodynamics and hypertension: clinical investigation
Email: ibw20@cam.ac.uk
Dr Patrick Yu-Wai-Man
Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Mitochondrial eye diseases; inherited optic neuropathies; gene therapy
Email: py237@cam.ac.uk