Research projects

The projects listed below were advertised in the Spring 2021 round of recruitment, which has now closed. New projects will be advertised when we open the next call for fellowship applications.

Principal Investigator	Project Title
Dr Ladislav Valkovic, Dr Jack Miller, Associate Professor Oliver Rider and Professor Damian Tyler	Measuring molecules for medicine: quantifying human cardiac metabolic inflexibility in diabetic cardiomyopathy using in vivo Magnetic Resonance
Professor Claudia Monaco, Professor Irina Udalova and Dr Alexey Epanchinstev*	Deciphering the biology of resident vascular macrophages in atherosclerosis
Associate Professor Lisa Heather and Dr Tom Durrant*	Hypoxia-Inducible Factor: a unifying mechanism underpinning multiple diabetes complications
Professor Chris O'Callaghan and Dr Joanna Howson*	Leveraging genomic approaches and genetic associations to identify potential new drug targets in cardiometabolic disease
Professor Kim Dora and Professor William Haynes*	Patient-specific bioinformatics linking coronary microvascular structure, function and gene expression
Dr Gillian Douglas and Professor Keith Channon	Uncovering the mechanism of action for the coronary artery disease GWAS gene JCAD
Professor Cornelia van Duijn and Dr Joanna Howson*	An integrative cross-omics study of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis
Dr Katherine Bull, Professor Richard Cornall and Dr Ramneek Gupta*	The cellular pathology of early kidney disease

*supervisor from the Novo Nordisk Research Centre Oxford