Potential PhD supervisors: Translational Health Sciences
Members of the school have a diverse range of research interests. Please search the table below to identify potential PhD supervisors.
Supervisors | Research areas |
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Prof Alan Perriman | Bio-printing, cell therapies, tissue engineering, synthetic biology |
Dr Alan Whone | Movement disorder |
Dr Amanda Owen Smith | Qualitative, obesity, health policy, priority setting |
Dr Andrew Moore | Qualitative, Arthritis, Chronic Pain, Surgery, Health services |
Prof Andy Judge | Vascular Surgery and Biology |
Dr Anna Bibby | Respiratory Medicine |
Dr Anna Long | Autoantibodies, Autoimmunity, Type 1 Diabetes, Coeliac disease |
Prof Annela Seddon | X-ray scattering, biological systems |
Prof Barnaby Reeves | Randomised controlled trials (RCTs), health care evaluation, cardiovascular disease, surgery, ophthalmology |
Dr Becky Conway-Campbell | Glucocorticoids, Glucocorticoid Receptor, Hippocampus, Chromatin, Transcription |
Dr Becky Foster | Diabetic nephropathy, Endothelial glycocalyx, Angiopoietin-1, VEGF-C, Albuminuria |
Dr Ben Gibbison | Cardiac Anaesthesia and Intensive Care |
Prof Bruce Drinkwater | Ultrasonics |
Dr Caroline Rivers | |
Prof Celia Gregson | Fracture, Osteoporosis, Epidemiology, Genetics, Ageing |
Dr Christina Dardani | Immunopsychiatry |
Dr Christy Burden | Obstetrics |
Dr Claire Perks | Epithelial cancers, metabolism, obesity, IGF axis, cancer progression |
Dr Claire Rice | Multiple sclerosis, stem cells |
Dr Daniel Whitcomb | Alzheimer's disease; glutamate receptors; synaptic plasticity; synaptic function |
Dr Dave Copland | Uveitis, Autoimmunity, Ocular inflammatory disease, Gene Therapy |
Prof David Murphy | Molecular neuroendocrinology, Hypertension, Transcriptomics, Transcription, In vivo gene manipulation |
Dr Denize Atan | Memory, Genetics, Hippocampus, Retina, Epigenetics |
Dr Ela Chakkarapani | Perinatal brain injury, neuroprotection, Translational research |
Dr Elanor Hinton | Eating behaviours, Satiety, Mindful eating, Response Inhibition |
Prof Elek Molnar | Molecular mechanisms of neuronal plasticity |
Dr Elsa Marques | Economic evaluation of health care, Health economics, Costs, Cost effectiveness, Clinical trials |
Dr Emma Anderson | Health Psychology, Behaviour change, Qualitative Research, Randomised Controlled Trials |
Dr Emma Cahill | Psychological basis of memory and adapative behaviour |
Prof Emma Clark | Hypermobility, scoliosis, vertebral fractures, osteoporosis, pain |
Dr Emma Vincent | Diabetes, Obesity |
Dr Erik Lenguerrand | Epidemiology in obstetrics, epidemiology in orthopaedics, clinical trial in obstetrics, clinical trial in orthopaedics |
Dr Fengyuan Liu | 3D printing, Biomanufacturing |
Prof Frank de Vocht | Public health, radiation epidemiology, environmental and occupational epidemiology |
Prof Gavin Welsh | Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis, Podocyte, Kidney disease, Cell signalling, Cytoskeleton |
Dr Giovanni Biglino | Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging, congenital heart disease, hemodynamics, medical 3D printing, biomechanics |
Dr Giulia Bigotti | Heart regeneration, cardiac repair, cardio-protection, extracellular matrix, biochemistry, protein engineering, antiviral compounds. |
Prof Harry Mellor | Cytoskeleton of endothelial cells, the cell that line blood vessels. |
Dr Helen Weavers | Cell and Developmental Biology |
Prof Ian Craddock | Pervasive health, technology for health |
Dr James Armstrong | Tissue engineering, organoids, biomaterials, bioprinting, stem cells, regenerative medicine, in vitro models, bio-adhesives, bio-fabrication, ultrasound |
Dr Jason Johnson | Cardiovascular, inflammation, Proteases, MicroRNA, Angiogenesis |
Prof Kathleen Gillespie | Autoimmunity, genetic mechanisms, maternal cells, functional pancreatic beta cells, NK cells, diabetes |
Prof Kathreena Kurian | Brain tumour, brain cancer, Glioma, Neuroncology, Neuroscience |
Dr Liang-Fong Wong | Neurodegenerative disease, spinal cord injury, gene therapy, stem cells, neuroscience |
Dr Lindsay Nicholson | Autoimmunity, Autoimmune disease, Ophthalmology, T cells, Macrophages |
Prof Liz Coulthard | Dementia, Memory, Clinical trials, Cognition, Alzheimer's disease |
Dr Maria Pufulete | Cardiac surgery |
Dr Mark Bond | cAMP-dependent signalling pathways, transcriptional regulation of vascular cell behaviour |
Prof Michael Whitehouse | Total hip replacement, Total knee replacement, Trauma and fractures, Patient reported outcome measures, Registries |
Dr Mohamed Ghorbel | Congenital Heart Disease, Genomics, Tissue-Engineering, Stem Cells, Transnational Research |
Dr Oscar Cordero Llana | Parkinson's Disease, Neurodegeneration, Neural Stem Cells, iPSCs, Astrocytes |
Dr Scott Miners | Dementia, Alzheimer's disease, cardiovascular, neuropathology, renin-angiotensin system |
Prof Simon Satchell | Diabetes, Renal disease, Kidney glomerulus, Vascular biology, Endothelium |
Prof Vikki Wylde | Joint replacement, Clinical research, Chronic pain, Randomised trials, Randomised trials |
Prof Andrew Dick | Immunobiology, Mouse inflammatory models, Ocular inflammatory disease, Immune endophenotyping, Clinical Uveitis |
Prof Barnaby Reeves | Randomised controlled trials (RCTs), health care evaluation, cardiovascular disease, surgery, ophthalmology |
Prof Chris Rogers | Heart surgery, heart transplantation, cox regression modeling, lung transplantation, low volume operations |
Prof Gianni Angelini | Saphenous vein bypass graft failure, Beating heart surgery, Arterial revascularisation, Mitral valve repair, Cardiac surgery |
Prof Hans Reul | Stress, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis, autonomic nervous system, glucocorticoid, signalling pathways |
Prof James Uney | Molecular neuroscience, huntington's disease, Alzheimer's disease, apoptosis, neurodegeneration |
Prof Jonathan Tobias | Osteoporosis , bone development |
Prof Julian Hamilton-Shield | Children, nutrition, diabetes, obesity, metabolism |
Prof Massimo Caputo | Congenital Cardiac Surgery, Tissue Engineering Regenerative Medicine, Ischemia Reperfusion Injury, Myocardial Protection and Omics, 3D modeling and imaging in congenital heart disease |
Prof Moin Saleem | Kidney; paediatric; podocyte; genetics; cardiovascular |
Prof Nick Maskell | Pleura, pleural effusion, mesothelioma, pleural infection, pleural malignancy |
Prof Paolo Madeddu | Cardiovascular regenerative medicine, Stem cells, Diabetes complications, Ischemia |
Prof Patrick Kehoe | Alzheimer's, Vascular, Dementia, Drug Repurposing, Angiotensin |
Prof Raimondo Ascione | Innovation in Cardiac Surgery, Stem cells for myocardial repair, Vascular tissue bioengineering, Cardiovascular Drug/Device development, Translational research in large animals |
Prof Richard Coward | Kidney, glomerulus, transgenic mouse, podocyte, diabetic kidney disease |
Prof Saadeh Suleiman | Cardiac Physiology, Cellular Cardiology, Development and Ageing, Cardio-protection |
Prof Sarah George | Atherosclerosis, vein graft, cell signalling, heart disease, tissue engineering |
Prof Stafford Lightman | Stress, circadian rhythm, Ultradian rhythm, Cortisol, Apathy |