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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: Cancer, Epidemiology and Public Health, Women's Health, Clinical Sciences
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 Sciences
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 Sciences
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 Sciences
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: 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 Sciences
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 in humans: promoting endogenous brain repair
Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Sciences
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: Describing the pathophysiology of head injury and optimising patient outcome
Themes: Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Sciences
Department: Department of Medicine
Email: jpc44@wbic.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?jpc44
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 Sciences
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 Sciences
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 Sciences
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 Sciences
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 Sciences
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 Sciences
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 Sciences
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 Sciences
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 Sciences
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 Sciences
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 Sciences
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 Sciences
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 Andrew Grant
Topic: Microbial Pathogenesis
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Infection and Immunity, Clinical Sciences
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 Sciences
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 Sciences
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: Mr Adel Helmy
Topic: Traumatic Brain Injury, Inflammation, Subarachnoid Haemorrhage, Neurosurgery
Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Sciences
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 Rik Henson
Topic: Systems neuroscience of human memory and its disorders in acquired amnesia, aging and dementia. Neuroimaging and statistical analysis methods.
Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Sciences
Department: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Email: rik.henson@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/rik.henson/personal/
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 Sciences
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 Sciences
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 Sciences
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 Sciences
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 Sciences
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: Dr Helle Jorgensen
Topic: Regulation of Smooth Muscle Cells plasticity and heterogeneity in health and cardiovascular disease
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Molecules and Cells, Clinical Sciences
Department: Medicine
Email: hfj22@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.hlri.cam.ac.uk/investigators/helle-jorgensen/
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 Sciences
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 Sciences
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 Sciences
Department: Medicine
Email: tk382@cam.ac.uk
Website: krieglab.com
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Elisa Laurenti
Topic: Human Haematopoietic Stem Cells Biology in Health and Disease
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Women's Health, Clinical Sciences
Department: Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Email: el422@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/researchers/principal-investigators/elisa...
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 Sciences
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 Sciences
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 Sciences
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 Sciences
Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Email: wm305@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://mcewan-lab.com/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Su Metcalfe
Topic: Use of nanotechnology to deliver growth factors in vivo to promote brain repair
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Sciences
Department: Department of Surgery
Email: smm1001@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.immunology.cam.ac.uk/Networkdirectory/smm1001%40cam.ac.uk
 Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Emmanouil Metzakopian
Topic: To boost connect and revolutionise Dementia discovery science and to accelerate finding new ways to diagnose and treat Dementia effectively
Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Sciences
Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences UK Dementia Research Institute
Email: em698@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://ukdri.ac.uk/centres/cambridge
Applications from potential 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 Sciences
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 Sciences
Department: Medicine
Email: nwm23@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/morrell/
 Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Meritxell Nus
Topic: Atherosclerosis, B and T cells, diet, gut microbiota.
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Clinical Sciences
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 Sciences
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 Sciences
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 Manav Pathania
Topic: Brain tumours
Themes: Cancer, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells, Clinical Sciences
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 Sciences
Department: Clinical Neurosciences
Email: spp24@cam.ac.uk
Website: www.pluchinolab.org
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: Professor Lucy Raymond
Topic: The genetic basis of intellectual disability
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Sciences
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: Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Sciences
Department: 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 Sciences
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 Sciences
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 Sciences
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 Sciences
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 Sciences
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 Sciences
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 Sciences
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: Professor Nicole Soranzo
Topic: Human complex traits
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity, Clinical Sciences
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: Innate immune cell-endothelial interactions in acute and chronic inflammation
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Clinical Sciences
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 Sciences
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: Professor Antonio Vidal-Puig
Topic: Molecular mechanisms of energy balance
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Clinical Sciences
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 Sciences
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 Sciences
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 Sciences
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 Sciences
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 Sciences
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: 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, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, Clinical Sciences
Department: PDN
Email: er311@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/eleanor-raffan
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Laura  Owen
Topic: Urinary incontinence and urinary tract cancers; Wound management and reconstruction
Themes: Clinical Sciences
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 Jane Ladlow
Topic: Small animal surgery
Themes: Clinical Sciences
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 Heidi Radke
Topic: Orthopaedics in cats and dogs
Themes: Clinical Sciences
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

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