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 |
|
Prof. David Bulmer
|
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 |
