Graduate Studies Committee
In this section
- DPhil in Medical Sciences
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DPhil research opportunities 2024
- Cross-talk between adipose tissue and the cardiovascular system in humans: Using Artificial Intelligence to design precision Imaging diagnostics and discover novel therapeutic targets
- Functional coronary artery disease genetics - defining the function of new causal atherosclerosis genes
- Human fat distribution and metabolic disease
- Inflammatory infiltration induces cancer-associated fibroblast differentiation
- Imaging in Preventive Cardiology Research
- Adverse myocardial remodelling in cardiac fibrosis and atrial fibrillation
- Why does turbulent blood flow cause cardiovascular disease?
- Watkins Group – Various projects relating to inherited heart muscle disease
- Iron and Immunity
- De Novo Mutations and Human Disease
- Understanding the principles of gene expression in health and disease.
- Inflammation in p53 mutant myeloproliferative neoplasms
- Developing improved models of normal and malignant blood cell development
- New Immune Therapies For Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML) And Myeloid Blood Cancers.
- Building the skull – normal and abnormal development
- Single Cell Biology of Hematopoietic Stem- and Progenitor Cells in Blood Cancer and Ageing
- Genomics and Genome Editing
- Therapeutic opportunities emerging from studies of immune checkpoints
- Design of advanced haematopoietic stem cell and T cell therapies
- Non-invasive cardiac metabolism assessment using ultra-high field (7T) MR Spectroscopy
- Understanding how glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP1) and gastric inhibitory polypeptide (GIP) receptors contribute to metabolism in complex tissues
- Elucidating the role of disease modifying gene variants in inherited cardiomyopathies using induced pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes and CRISPR/Cas-9
- Hyde Group - Airway Gene Therapy - Engineering Lentiviral Vectors for Lung Cell-Specific Targeting
- Characterising spatial tissue niches in human immune system development and disease using computational biology, machine learning and multi-omics approaches
- Applications of multi-omics and AI to decode T cell recognition code in time and space
- Kini Group - A network approach to identifying novel genes causing neurodevelopmental disorders- The SATB pathway
- Generating extracellular vesicles for therapeutic Immunomodulation and building tools to determine their diagnostic potential.
- Development and Application of Hyperpolarized Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Study of the Diseased Heart
- Homologous recombination in genome maintenance and cancer prevention
- Impact of endogenous DNA damage and repair in early haematopoiesis
- Non-invasive tests for the prediction of clinical outcomes in people with metabolic dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease
- Development and combination of advanced neuroimaging to understand functional changes in Multiple Sclerosis
- How do protein making factories prevent cardiovascular disease?
- Development of genetic therapies for cardiomyopathy: creating an evidence base for ethical and clinical implementation.
- Advanced early detection of lytic bone disease using multi-modal computational analysis of bone marrow biopsies and skeletal imaging
- Occult hepatitis B virus infection (OBI) in people who donate blood: virology, immunology and liver health (OPAL)
- Characterising Human Intestinal Development and Dysregulation in Childhood Diseases
- Single Cell Biology, Molecular Mechanisms And Genetics of Transformation of Clonal Haemopoiesis to Myeloid Blood Cancer (MDS and AML)
- Leeson Group - Developing new echocardiography diagnostics with AI
- AI deep generative models for contrast enhancement of MRI: Towards needle-free and more informative MRI examination of the heart
- How to apply
- Funding Options
- Meet the team
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Career Paths of Former Students
- Associate Professor - Universiti Putra Malaysia
- Freelance Copy Editor
- Wellcome Trust Research Fellow - Kennedy Institute, University of Oxford
- Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow - Stanford University
- Senior Scientist - Immunocore
- Postdoctoral Fellow - Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
- Assistant Head Teacher - West London Free School
- Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine - Queen Mary University London, Barts & The London School of Medicine and Dentistry
- University Research Lecturer & British Heart Foundation Research Fellow - Cardiovascular Medicine, RDM, University of Oxford
- Senior Policy Manager - Research Councils UK (RCUK)
- Skills and Training
The Graduate Studies Committee meets termly to discuss all matters relating to graduate studies in the department.
| Chair of Committee, RDM Director of Graduate Studies and Director of Graduate Studies WIMM-NDCLS |
Prof Marella de Bruijn, RDM, WIMM/NDCLS |
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Head of Department |
Prof Keith Channon, RDM |
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Local Directors of Graduate Study |
Prof Damian Tyler, CVM Prof Leanne Hodson, OCDEM |
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RDM Strategic |
Dr Jane Sherwood, Head of Administration and Finance, RDM Dr Jill Walker, Graduate Studies Manager, RDM |
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Administrators |
Joel Atkins, Business Manager, CVM Jo Hovard, Business Manager, IMD Dr Stella Keeble, Administrator, WIMM Dr Mark Evans, Business Manager, OCDEM Lee-Anne Stork, Business Manager, NDCLS |
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Graduate Student Representatives |
Lewis Timms, CVM Tafadzwa Kufazvinei, CVM |
Skills Training for DPhil Students
Our DPhil students have access to a range of professional development opportunities.