MSc by Research projects
You can start the process by contacting an individual principal investigator relevant to your research interests, or find out more about our research in the school.
You may wish to start your search with our pre-defined list of available research projects:
Dr Borko Amulic (Associate Professor in Immunology)
Mechanism and function of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs)
Professor Matthew Avison (Professor of Molecular Bacteriology)
Understanding Envelope Permeability Control in Bacteria to Combat Antibiotic Resistance
Dr Siang Boon Koh (Senior Lecturer)
Drugging the cell cycle of cancer
Dr Adam Chambers (Consultant Senior Lecturer)
Understanding the role of BCL-3 in radiation response in colorectal cancer
Professor Andrew Davidson (Professor of Systems Virology)
Two projects available:
Identification of biomarkers for the prediction of dengue disease severity using high-throughput proteomics
High-throughput 'omics analysis of SARS-CoV-2 infected cells
Dr Abdelkader Essafi (Associate Professor in Genetics and MRC new investigator)
Two projects available:
The role of phenotypic plasticity in 1) therapy resistance and 2) dormancy
Professor Darryl Hill (Professor of Infectious Diseases and Deputy Head of School)
The effect of bacteria on colorectal cancer cells
Dr Gareth Jones (Associate Professor in Immunology)
Exploiting cytokine action to treat chronic inflammation
Dr Wa'el Kafienah (Associate Professor in Regenerative Medicine)
Cellular reprogramming for cell-based therapy of osteoarthritis
Dr Maisem Laabei (Senior Lecturer)
Two projects available:
Understanding the mode of action of novel antimicrobials
Evading host defences; characterising immune evasion strategies of Staphylococcus aureus
Dr Bethan Lloyd-Lewis (Senior Research Fellow and Proleptic Senior Lecturer)
Two projects available
Epithelial cell interactions in the mammary gland
Cell death decisions in the mammary gland
Professor Karim Malik (Professor of Molecular Oncology)
Two projects available
The roles of aberrant alternative splicing in childhood cancers
Overcoming drug resistance in poor prognosis neuroblastoma
Dr Deepali Pal (Senior Lecturer)
Two projects available
Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) engineered, immune-responsive bone marrow microenvironment (BME) to develop leukaemia-specific oncogenic niche in vitro
Targeted drug delivery to CDH2-enriched leukaemic bone marrow microenvironment (BME)
Dr Parthive Patel (Sir Henry Dale Research Fellow)
Regulation of tissue regeneration by stress signalling
Dr Iart Luca Shytaj (Senior Lecturer)
Uncovering markers of retroviral persistence
Professor Christoph Wuelfing (Professor of Immunology)
Two projects available