Supervisors
Click on the profiles below to find out more about each project supervisor and their research. Applicants are encouraged to contact prospective supervisors to express their interest and discuss possible projects.
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Bannard Group - B Cell Immunology
Development and Maturation of B cell Mediated Antibody Responses
Blackford Group - DNA Damage and Disease
Studying the signalling mechanisms cells use to respond to DNA damage and why defects in these pathways cause human diseases such as cancer.
de Bruijn Group - Developmental Haematopoiesis
Development of the hematopoietic/ immune system in the embryo
Cader Group - Translational Molecular Neuroscience Group
Aiming to elucidate the pathophysiological basis of human neurological disorders from genetic molecular networks to complex neural systems.
Clynes Group - Cancer Therapeutics, DNA Damage and Repair Laboratory
Understanding and targeting telomere maintenance in cancer
Cornall Group - B cell development and immune regulation
Understanding B cell development and diseases associated with abnormal antibody production.
Davis Group - T Cell Biology
Studying how lymphocytes decide to mount immune responses against, for example, tumours (cancer immunotherapy).
Drakesmith Group - Iron and Immunity
Iron, immunity, anaemia, and infection
Eggeling Group
Molecular nano-immunology and optical microscopy
Fugger Group - Oxford Centre for Neuroinflammation
Multiple sclerosis: understanding genetic and environmental susceptibility
Fulga Group - Genome Engineering and Synthetic Biology
Design and implementation of synthetic circuits for research and therapeutic applications
Gibbons Group - ATRX Group
Chromatin remodelling in health and disease
Goriely Group - Clinical Genetics
De Novo Mutations, Selfish Selection, Mosaicism and Human Disease
Higgs Group - Laboratory of Gene Regulation
Using state-of-the-art laboratory and computational approaches to understand how mammalian genes are switched on and off during development and differentiation and how this goes awry in human genetic diseases.
Ho Group - Translational Lung Immunology
Studying the contribution of the immune system to lung injury, repair and fibrosis.
Holländer Group- Developmental immunology
The molecular and cellular biology of thymus development and function
Hughes Group - Genomics, gene regulation and disease
Applying a wide range of genomics methods and technologies to understand how gene expression is regulated.
Iotchkova Group - Statistical Genetics
Novel statistical method development for discovery and interpretation of genetic contribution to human cardiovascular and haematological traits
Koohy Group - Machine Learning and Integrative Approaches in Immunology
Developing machine-learning and mathematical models to understand heterogeneity of response to personalised cancer immunotherapy.
McHugh Group - DNA Damage and Repair
Studying DNA damage and repair to understand the causes of cancer and improve its treatment.