Principal Investigators in this theme:
| Name: Professor Antonis Antoniou Topic: Cancer genetic epidemiology, cancer risk modelling, genetic epidemiology of BRCA1, BRCA2 and other cancer susceptibility genes Themes: Department: Public Health and Primary Care Email: aca20@cam.ac.uk Website: https://ccge.medschl.cam.ac.uk/antonis-antoniou/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Martin Bennett Topic: Regulation of vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation and apoptosis Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Clinical Science Department: Department of Medicine (Division of Cardiovascular Medicine) Email: mrb24@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/bennett/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Prof John Bradley Topic: Regulation and function of death receptors in the microvasculature Themes: Cancer, Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Molecules and Cells, Clinical Science Department: Medicine Email: jrb1000@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/bradley/ Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Professor James Brenton Topic: Ovarian cancer prognostic markers predictive markers bioinformaticsexpression profiling clinical trial design using molecular end points Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Women's Health, Clinical Science Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute) Email: james.brenton@cruk.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.cambridgecancer.org.uk/research-groups/brenton-group Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Will Brown Topic: Personalising treatment in multiple sclerosis Themes: Clinical Science Department: Clinical Neurosciences Email: wb255@cam.ac.uk Website: https://neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/member/wb255/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor D Stephen Charnock-Jones Topic: Placental development high throughput sequencing genomics regulation of endothelial cell function in health and disease translational research Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Women's Health, Clinical Science Department: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Email: dscj1@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.obgyn.cam.ac.uk/staff/senior-staff/professor-steve-charnock-... Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Alasdair Coles Topic: Remyelination Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Neurology Unit) Email: ajc1020@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: https://www-neurosciences.medschl.cam.ac.uk/jones-coles-group/ Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Jonathan Coles Topic: Mechanisms responsible for secondary neuronal injury, their temporal profile, and implications for eventual neurocognitive recovery following head injury (TBI). Themes: Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Department of Medicine Email: jpc44@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?jpc44 and https://www.med.cam.ac.uk/pace-our-pis-and-associate-pis/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Francesco Colucci Topic: Immunology of reproduction, Infections, Cancer Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Infection and Immunity, Women's Health, Clinical Science Department: Obstetrics and Gynaecology Email: fc287@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.obgyn.cam.ac.uk/staff/senior-staff/dr-francesco-colucci/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Sadaf Farooqi Topic: Molecular mechanisms in human obesity Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology, Clinical Science Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science) Email: isf20@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/i-sadaf-f... Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea Topic: Biological and clinical aspects of chronic schizophrenia Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Department of Psychiatry Email: ef280@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?eegea Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Paul Fletcher Topic: Functional MRI studies of episodic memory and associative learning Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Department of Psychiatry Email: pcf22@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Professor Tamsin Ford Topic: Interventional epidemiology - children and young people's mental health Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Department of Psychiatry Email: tjf52@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: https://dev.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Nita Forouhi Topic: Nutritional Epidemiology in relation to diabetes and obesity Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology, Clinical Science Department: MRC Epidemiology Unit Email: nita.forouhi@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/research/research-areas/nutrition Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Gillian Fraser Topic: Bacterial motility and flagella biogenesis; Bacterial export pathways Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells, Clinical Science Department: Department of Pathology (Microbiology and Parasitology Division) Email: gmf25@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/gillian-fraser Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr James Fraser Topic: Cardiac and skeletal muscle excitability in health and disease Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Clinical Science Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: jaf21@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/fraser/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Fiona Gilbert Topic: Breast and Oncology Imaging and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Themes: Cancer, Medical Imaging, Women's Health, Clinical Science Department: Department of Radiology Email: fjg28@cam.ac.uk Website: http://radiology.medschl.cam.ac.uk/about-us/departmental-staff/academic-... Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Dino Giussani Topic: Developmental origins of cardiovascular health and disease Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Clinical Science Department: Physiology Development & Neuroscience Email: dag26@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/dino-giussani Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Jane Goodall Topic: Role of ER stress in inflammation and cardiovascular disease Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Clinical Science Department: Medicine Email: jcg23@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.immunology.cam.ac.uk/Networkdirectory/jcg23@medschl.cam.ac.uk Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Andrew Grace Topic: Cellular Genetics of Arrhythmia Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Clinical Science Department: Department of Biochemistry Email: aag1000@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/research/grace Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Alessandra Granata Topic: Modelling Vascular Dementia and Stroke using patients’ iPSC Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Molecules and Cells Department: Clinical Neurosciences Email: ag686@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.cardiovascular.cam.ac.uk/directory/agranata Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Andrew Grant Topic: Microbial Pathogenesis Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Infection and Immunity, Clinical Science Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine Email: ajg60@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/ajg60%40cam.ac.uk Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Fiona Gribble Topic: Signalling in the gut-brain-pancreatic axis Themes: Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology, Clinical Science Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science) Email: fmg23@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/fiona-gri... Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Mark Gurnell Topic: Acquired and genetic disorders of hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid function; functional imaging in endocrine neoplasia; acromegaly Themes: Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology, Clinical Science Department: Department of Medicine (Division of Diabetes and Endocrinology / Institute of Metabolic Science) Email: mg299@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/AI/Gurnell/index.php Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Eric Harshfield Topic: Using multi-omics to predict, diagnose, and prevent risk of stroke and vascular dementia and prioritise therapeutic targets Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Clinical Neurosciences Email: eh457@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: https://neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/member/eh457/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Mr Adel Helmy Topic: Traumatic Brain Injury, Inflammation, Subarachnoid Haemorrhage, Neurosurgery Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences Email: aeh33@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.neurosurg.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/neuroinflammation/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Nicola Holdstock Topic: Neonatal medicine and physiology Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology, Clinical Science Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine Email: nbh10@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/nbh10@cam.ac.uk/ Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Roman Hovorka Topic: Relationship between insulin sensitivity and insulin secretion. Longitudinal analysis of metabolic disturbances in Type 2 diabetes. Artificial pancreas Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology, Clinical Science Department: Department of Paediatrics (Institute of Metabolic Science) Email: rh347@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/Staff/PI/Hovroka/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Chris Huang Topic: Calcium and cellular activation processes in skeletal and cardiac muscle including mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmogenesis Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Molecules and Cells, Clinical Science Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: clh11@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/huang/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor James Huntington Topic: Basic and translational research into thrombosis and haemophilia Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Clinical Science Department: CIMR/Haematology Email: jah52@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-jim-huntington-fmedsci Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Peter Hutchinson Topic: Cerebral metabolism and imaging following acute brain injury Themes: Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Neurosurgery Unit) Email: pjah2@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?pjah2 Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Arthur Kaser Topic: Metabo-genetics of autoinflammation/autoimmunity (focus on Crohn's and Still's disease). Core metabolism of the cell. Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology, Clinical Science Department: Department of Medicine & Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease Email: ak729@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.citiid.cam.ac.uk/arthur-kaser/ Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Albert Koulman Topic: Development of mass spectrometry for metabolomics and lipidomics Themes: Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology, Clinical Science Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science) Email: ak675@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/albert-ko... Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Thomas Krieg Topic: Cardiovascular Medicine, heart attack, stroke Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Clinical Science Department: Medicine Email: tk382@cam.ac.uk Website: krieglab.com Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Jane Ladlow Topic: Small animal surgery Themes: Clinical Science Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine Email: jfl1001@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/jfl1001@cam.ac.uk/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Joo-Hyeon Lee Topic: Stem cells and niches in tissue homeostasis, regeneration, and disease Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells, Clinical Science Department: Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute Email: jhl62@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/research/pis/lee Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Ziad Mallatt Topic: The roles of innate and adaptive immunity in the development and progression of vascular diseases (atherosclerosis and vascular aneurysm) and response to post-ischemic injury Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Clinical Science Department: Department of Medicine (Division of Cardiovascular Medicine) Email: zm255@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/mallat/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Hugh Markus Topic: Molecular genetic and imaging techniques to investigate the pathogenesis of stroke with a particular focus on cerebral small vessel disease Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences Email: hsm32@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.neurology.cam.ac.uk/neurology-unit-research-groups/stroke-re... Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr William McEwan Topic: Immunity in Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative conditions Themes: Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences Email: wm305@cam.ac.uk Website: https://mcewan-lab.com/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Eoin McKinney Topic: Autoimmunity, Inflammatory disease, immunology, genomics, Machine Learning Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine and Endrocrinology Department: Medicine Email: efm30@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.immunology.cam.ac.uk/departments/cambridge-institute-for-the... Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Su Metcalfe Topic: Use of nanotechnolohy for targeted delivery of delivery of neuroprotective factors Themes: Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Department of Surgery Email: smm1001@cam.ac.uk Website: https://neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/research-collaboration/ Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Sarah Morgan Topic: Data science for brain sciences (including brain imaging and Natural Language Processing) Themes: Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Department of Psychiatry, Computer Science and Technology Email: sem91@cam.ac.uk Website: https://semorgan.org/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Nicholas Morrell Topic: The molecular and genetic basis of pulmonary arterial hypertension Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Clinical Science Department: Medicine Email: nwm23@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/morrell/ Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Professor Jenny Morton Topic: Themes: Clinical Science Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: ajm41@cam.ac.uk Website: Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Professor Graham Murray Topic: Causes, mechanisms and treatments of mental disorder. Psychiatric and brain imaging genetics. Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Department: Psychiatry Email: gm285@cam.ac.uk Website: https://neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/member/gm285/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Meritxell Nus Topic: Atherosclerosis, B and T cells, diet, gut microbiota. Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Clinical Science Department: Department of Medicine Email: mn421@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.cardiovascular.cam.ac.uk/directory/meritxell-nus Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Ken Ong Topic: Childhood obesity, growth and development, and relationships to adult metabolic disease Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Epidemiology and Public Health, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology, Clinical Science Department: MRC Epidemiology Unit / Department of Paediatrics Email: ken.ong@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/people/ken-ong/ Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Stephen O'Rahilly Topic: The endocrine control of metabolism in health and disease Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology, Clinical Science Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science) Email: so104@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/hod/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Laura Owen Topic: Urinary incontinence and urinary tract cancers; Wound management and reconstruction Themes: Clinical Science Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine Email: lo247@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.research.vet.cam.ac.uk/research-staff-directory/principal-in... Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Manav Pathania Topic: Brain tumours Themes: Cancer, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells, Clinical Science Department: Department of Oncology Email: mp915@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.pathanialab.com/ Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Stefano Pluchino Topic: regenerative neuroimmunology; progressive multiple sclerosis; cellular senescence; mitochondrial metabolism; Themes: Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Clinical Neurosciences Email: spp24@cam.ac.uk Website: www.pluchinolab.org Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Heidi Radke Topic: Orthopaedics in cats and dogs Themes: Clinical Science Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine Email: hr264@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/hr264@cam.ac.uk Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Eleanor Raffan Topic: Metabolic disease including obesity - molecular, genetic and physiological aspects; animal genetics Themes: Department: Physiology, Development and Neuroscience & Institute of Metabolic Science Email: er311@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/eleanor-raffan Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Eleanor Raffan Topic: Metabolic disease and obesity - molecular, genetic and physiological insights from spontaneous veterinary models of disease. Also interspecies communication! Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology, Clinical Science Department: PDN Email: er311@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/eleanor-raffan Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Lucy Raymond Topic: The genetic basis of intellectual disability Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Department of Medical Genetics (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research) Email: flr24@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-lucy-raymond Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr James Rowe 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. Themes: Clinical Science Department: Clinical Neurosciences & MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Email: james.rowe@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/james.rowe/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor David Rowitch Topic: Glial Cells and Response to Injury Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Department of Paediatrics Email: dhr25@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/research/pis/rowitch Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Professor James Rudd Topic: Non-invasive imaging can quantify and track inflammation in human and animal vascular disease Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Medical Imaging, Clinical Science Department: Department of Medicine (Division of Cardiovascular Medicine) Email: jhfr2@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.cambridgecancercentre.org.uk/users/jhfrudd Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Milka Sarris Topic: Immune cells and how they navigate through tissues in vivo to mount inflammatory responses Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells, Clinical Science Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: ms543@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/milka-sarris Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor David Savage Topic: Mechanisms of insulin resistance Themes: Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology, Clinical Science Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science) Email: dbs23@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/PI/Savage/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Stephen Sawcer Topic: The Genetic Analysis of Multiple Sclerosis Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Neurology Unit) Email: sjs1016@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?ssawcer Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Nadia Schoenmakers Topic: Genetic basis of congenital hypothyroidism Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology, Clinical Science Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science) Email: naaa2@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/nadia-sch... Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Sanjay Sinha Topic: Cardiovascular disease modelling and regenerative medicine Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Molecules and Cells, Clinical Science Department: Deparment of Medicine Email: ss661@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/people/pi/sinha Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Peter Smielewski Topic: Mathematical modelling supported monitoring and diagnostics of intracranial dynamics: brain injury and hydrocephalus Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Neurosurgery Unit) Email: ps10011@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.neurosurg.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/brain-physics-lab/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Mr Martin Snead Topic: Pathogenesis, prevention and repair of retinal detachment. Themes: Clinical Science Department: Clinical Neurosciences Email: mps34@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.vitreoretinalservice.org Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Nicole Soranzo Topic: Human complex traits Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity, Clinical Science Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute Email: ns6@sanger.ac.uk Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/soranzo-group Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Charlotte Summers Topic: Mechanisms of acute and chronic lung and systemic vascular inflammation; acute hyperaemic respiratory failure Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Infection and Immunity, Clinical Science Department: Medicine Email: cs493@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.hlri.cam.ac.uk/investigators/charlotte-summers/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Mark Toshner Topic: Pulmonary hypertension Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Clinical Science Department: Department of Medicine Email: mrt34@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.med.cam.ac.uk/staff/mark-toshner/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Jelle van den Ameele Topic: Neural stem cell metabolism, mitochondrial genetics, gene expression, chromatin, mitochondrial disease Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology, Clinical Science Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences Email: jv361@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/van-den-ameele-group Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Antonio Vidal-Puig Topic: Molecular mechanisms of energy balance Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Clinical Science Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science) Email: ajv22@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/PI/VidalPuig/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Nicholas Wareham Topic: Aetiology and Mechanisms of Diabetes and Related Metabolic Disorders of Later Life Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Clinical Science Department: MRC Epidemiology Unit Email: nick.wareham@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/research/research-areas/aetiology-of-diabe... Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Jonathan Weir-McCall Topic: Cardiothoracic imaging particularly in the use of CT and MRI Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Medical Imaging, Clinical Science Department: Department of Radiology Email: jw2079@cam.ac.uk Website: http://radiology.medschl.cam.ac.uk/about-us/departmental-staff/research-... Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Ian Wilkinson Topic: Endothelial cell biology large artery haemodynamics and hypertension: clinical investigation Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Clinical Science Department: Department of Medicine (Division of Clinical Pharmacology) Email: ibw20@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.clinpharm.medschl.cam.ac.uk/people/wilkinson.html Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Paul Wilkinson Topic: Epidemiology of self-harm; undergraduate medical education research Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Department of Psychiatry Email: pow12@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?pwilkinson Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Caroline Williams-Gray Topic: The role of the immune system in Parkinson’s disease Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Clinical Neurosciences Email: chm27@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.thebarkerwilliamsgraylab.co.uk/ Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Geoffrey Woods Topic: Human pain genetics Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: CIMR Email: cw347@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-geoff-woods Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Patrick Yu-Wai-Man Topic: Mitochondrial eye diseases; inherited optic neuropathies; gene therapy Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Clinical Neurosciences Email: py237@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www-neurosciences.medschl.cam.ac.uk/mitocamb/meet-our-staff/patr... Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Shahid Zaman Topic: Neurodegeneration & ageing in Down syndrome Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Psychiatry Email: shz10@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk/ciddrg/ Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Shahid Zaman Topic: Dementia in Intellectual disability especially in Down syndrome Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Psychiatry Email: shz10@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk/ciddrg/ Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
