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List of DPhil students who have been given leave to supplicate

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Congratulations to the following DPhil students on passing their vivas

  • Miss Maryam Alsharqi worked on ‘Identification of pre-clinical cardiovascular imaging phenotypes related to blood pressure in young adults’ and was supervised by Professor Paul Leeson and Associate Professor Adam Lewandowski and Dr Winok Lapidaire (CCRF, CVM).
  • Mr Holger Heinrich Burchert worked on ‘Immediate Exercise Response and Long-Term Adaptation to Exercise Training of the Preterm Adult Cardiac Phenotype’ and was supervised by Professor Paul Leeson and Associate Professor Adam Lewandowski (CCRF, CVM).
  • Dr Matthew Burrage worked on ‘Novel Stress T1-mapping Applications for the Assessment of Cardiovascular Disease’ and was supervised by Associate Professor Vanessa Ferreira, Professor Stefan Neubauer and Associate Professor Stefan Piechnik (OCMR, CVM).
  • Dr David Thomas Cain worked on ‘Role of CD1a-reactive T cells in peanut allergy’ and was supervised by Professor Graham Ogg and Dr Clare Hardman (MRC HIU, MRC WIMM, IMD).
  • Mr Ivan Lavander Candido Ferreira worked on ‘Reverse Engineering Gene Regulatory Circuitries in Neural Crest Development and Evolution’ and was supervised by Professors Tatjana Sauka-Spengler (MRC WIMM, NDCLS) and Marella De Bruijn (MRC MHU, MRC WIMM, NDCLS). 
  • Mr David Cruz Hernandez worked on ‘Characterising the functional role of gata1 short isoform in normal and malignant haematopoiesis’ and was supervised by Professors Paresh Vyas (MRC MHU, MRC WIMM, NDCLS) and Irene Roberts (Paediatrics).
  • Ms Dimitra Dimou worked on ‘Understanding the interplay between RUNX1 and Polycomb proteins in leukaemias with fusion proteins’ and was supervised by Professors Thomas Milne (MRC MHU, MRC WIMM, NDCLS) and Irene Roberts (Paediatrics).
  • Dr Chathuranga Lakmal Fonseka worked on ‘Molecular mechanisms underlying the immune response to dengue’ and was supervised by Professor Graham Ogg and Dr Clare Hardman (MRC HIU, MRC WIMM, IMD).
  • Mr Grigore-Aristide Gafencu worked on ‘The impact of ageing on the human haematopoietic stem cell and memory T cell compartments through the lens of single cell transcriptome analysis’ and was supervised by Professors Paresh Vyas and Claus Nerlov (MRC MHU, MRC WIMM, NDCLS). 
  • Dr Parag Ravindra Gajendragadkar worked on ‘Understanding the role of NOS1AP on ECG parameters and arrhythmogenesis: insights from mice and men’ and was supervised by Professor Barbara Casadei (CVM), Dr Jillian Simon (formerly CVM) and Professor Jemma Hopewell (NDPH).
  • Mr David Edward Grainger worked on ‘Spatial and Molecular Characterisation of the Cellular Niches Interacting with Intra-Embryonic Haemato-Endothelial Progenitors’ and was supervised by Professor Marella De Bruijn and Associate Professor Catherine Porcher (MRC MHU, MRC WIMM, NDCLS). 
  • Dr Moritz Jens Hundertmark worked on ‘Using Multi-Parametric Imaging and Multi-Nuclear Cardiac Magnetic Resonance to Investigate Novel Treatment Strategies for Heart Failure’ and was supervised by Professor Stefan Neubauer and Associate Professors Masliza Mahmod and Ladislav Valkovic (OCMR, CVM).
  • Dr Niels Asger Jakobsen worked on ‘Characterising the Cellular and Molecular Basis of Age-Related Clonal Haematopoiesis’ and was supervised by Professors Paresh Vyas (MRC MHU, MRC WIMM, NDCLS) and Douglas Higgs (MRC WIMM, NDCLS).
  • Dr Jamie Alexander Kitt worked on ‘Cardiovascular remodelling after hypertensive pregnancy: the impact of postpartum blood pressure control’ and was supervised by Professors Paul Leeson (CCRF, CVM), Richard McManus (Primary Care Health Sciences) and Associate Professor Adam Lewandowski (CCRF, CVM).
  • Dr Christos Kotanidis worked on ‘Developing new biomarkers for cardiovascular disease: The prognostic potential of oxidative stress and perivascular adipose tissue phenotyping’ and was supervised by Professors Keith Channon (CVM) and Charalambos Antoniades (AMIIC, CVM)
  • Mr Rassin Lababidi worked on ‘The Role of Epithelial Cells in COPD’ and was supervised by Professors David Jackson (MRC MHU, MRC WIMM, IMD) and Associate Professor Mona Bafadhel (NDM) and Dr Jennifer Cane (NDM)
  • Miss Caitlin Marie O'Brien-Ball worked on ‘Investigating triggering events in T&B Lymphocytes’ and was supervised by Professor Simon Davis and Dr Ana Mafalda Santos (MRC HIU, MRC WIMM, IMD).
  • Miss Siobhan Rice worked on ‘Developmentally regulated molecular programmes in human fetal haematopoietic cells cooperate with MLL-AF4 to drive infant acute lymphoblastic leukaemia’ and was supervised by Professors Irene Roberts (Paediatrics), Thomas Milne (MRC MHU, MRC WIMM, NDCLS) and Associate Professor Anindita Roy (Paediatrics).
  • Dr Anna Maria Schneider worked on ‘The Effects of mTOR Inhibition in Ischemic Stroke’ and was supervised by Professor Alastair Buchan and Associate Professor Yvonne Couch (IMD).
  • Dr Emmanuel Anandraj Selvaraj worked on ‘Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging for the assessment of patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis’ and was supervised by Professors Mike Brady (Oncology), Dr Adam Bailey (OUH), and Dr Michael Pavlides (CVM).
  • Dr Akshay Shah worked on ‘Understanding the role of intravenous iron to treat anaemia following critical care’ and was supervised by Professor Simon Stanworth (NDCLS), Mr Stuart McKechnie (University of Edinburgh) and Professor Peter Robbins (DPAG).
  • Miss Cheryl Mei Jun Tan worked on ‘Endothelial colony forming cells as a platform for early cardiovascular risk assessment’ and was supervised by Professor Paul Leeson (CCRF, CVM), Associate Professor Adam Lewandowski (CCRF, CVM) and Assistant Professor Mariane Bertagnolli (McGill University).
  • Mr Vickram Tittrea worked on ‘Investigation of haematopoietic cell growth and the impact of common mutations in myeloid malignancies’ and was supervised by Professors Jacqueline Boultwood (NDCLS), Suzanne Watt (NDCLS) and Diana Hernandez (Anthony Nolan Trust).
  • Mr Jasha Winston Trompf worked on ‘The role of microRNA-31 in cardiac fibrosis associated with atrial fibrillation’ and was supervised by Associate Professors Svetlana Reilly and Craig Lygate (CVM).
  • Miss Maria Voronkov worked on ‘Investigating the molecular and physiological roles of BUD23-dependent protein translation’ and was supervised by Professor David Ray (OCDEM), Dr Matthew Baxter (CVM) and Professor Leanne Hodson (OCDEM).
  • Mr Liam Arnold Joseph Young worked on ‘Metabolic assessment of perfused livers using magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy’ and was supervised by Associate Professor Christopher Rodgers (formerly OCMR, CVM, now at the University of Cambridge), Professor Peter Friend (Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences) and Professor Constantin-Cassios Coussios (IBME).