The following projects have been selected for the AstraZeneca Funded Non-Clinical PhD Studentships starting 2025. If you are a prospective student please look at the adverts provided below.
| UCAM-Supervisor |
UCAM Department |
AZ-Supervisor | Project Title |
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Prof. David Bulmer
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Pharmacology | Fraser Welsh | How does the microbiota contribute to chronic pain |
| Prof. David Spring | Chemistry | Jonathan Bargh | Developing the next generation of antibody-oligonucleotide conjugates using divinylpyridimidine conjugation |
| Prof. Emma Rawlins | Gurdon/PDN | Luigi Aloia | A reproducible human lung organoid platform for large scale oncology CRISPR screens |
| Prof. Ferdia Gallagher | Radiology | Richard Goodwin | Multimodal and multiscale imaging: interrogating renal morphology and function across the disease landscape |
| Prof. Hugh Robinson | Physiology, Development and Neuroscience (PDN) | Philipe Mendonca | Uncovering the electrophysiological fingerprints of neuroendocrine cancer cells |
| Prof. Laura Torrente-Murciano | Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology | Will Goundry | Accelerating big data in material crystallization |
| Prof. Matthew Gaunt | Chemistry | Henry Blackwell | Rapid development of new catalytic synthetic methodology for fragment-based drug discovery enabled by high-throughput experimentation |
| Prof. Ravindra Gupta | Medicine | Daniele Corridoni | Interaction between innate immune activation and cell cycle status in macrophages: implications for inflammatory diseases |
| Prof. Roisin Owens | Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology | Muireann Coen | Conformal electronic devices for non-invasive, dynamic monitoring of barrier tissues |
| Prof. Samuel Lambert | Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart and Lung Research Institute, Department of Public Health & Primary Care | Xiao Jiang | Partitioning the effects of high body mass index on risk of future comorbidities. |
| Prof. Walid Khaled | Pharmacology/ Cambridge Stem Cell Institute | Mark Albertella |
Therapeutic cancer prevention of hereditary cancers |
AstraZeneca-University of Cambridge (2024) Project Advertisements
- Project Title: Partitioning the effects of high body mass index on risk of future comorbidities (Fixed Term)
Project supervisors: Dr Samuel Lambert (Assistant Professor of Health Data Science, University of Cambridge) and Dr Xiao Jiang (Senior Data Scientist, Centre for Genomics Research, AstraZeneca)
Closing Date: 31 October 2024
Applications are invited for 4-year PhD studentship (starting October 2025) based in the University of Cambridge's Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit and the new AstraZeneca Discovery Centre at Cambridge. The student will be working on a collaborative project entitled "Partitioning the effects of high body mass index on risk of future comorbidities", jointly supervised by Dr Samuel Lambert (Assistant Professor of Health Data Science, University of Cambridge) and Dr Xiao Jiang (Senior Data Scientist, Centre for Genomics Research, AstraZeneca).
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