PhD studentship projects

Applications for the studentship competition (funding) for our PhD programme for October 2024 are now closed. We are still open for applications, but there is no funding available.

You can find out more by exploring more than 30 research groups that investigate the mechanisms underlying health and disease at the Dunn School.

Supervisor: Dragana Ahel & Ivan Ahel

Molecular mechanisms of genome stability and cancer

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Supervisor: Ivan Ahel

Regulation of genome stability and human disease

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Supervisor: Pedro Carvalho

Mechanisms of protein quality control in health and disease

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Supervisor: Omer Dushek & P. Anton van der Merwe

Understanding the molecular reach of therapeutic CD3-targeting bi-specific antibodies to optimise efficacy

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Supervisor: Omer Dushek & P. Anton van der Merwe

Understanding and exploiting antigen discrimination by T cells

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Supervisor: Fumiko Esashi

Understanding DNA breaks at centromeres

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Supervisor: Ervin Fodor

Molecular mechanisms of influenza virus replication

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Supervisor: Matthew Freeman

Rhomboid-like proteins: from molecular principles to their role in human disease

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Supervisor: Natalia Gromak

Function of R-loops in health and disease

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Supervisor: Ulrike Gruneberg

Molecular mechanisms safe-guarding genome stability and preventing cancer during mammalian cell division

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Supervisor: Monika Gullerova

The role of RNA modifications in RNA dependent DNA damage response

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Supervisor: Bass Hassan

Mechanism evaluation of lethality dependencies in cancers of mesenchyme

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Supervisor: Anjali Hinch

The landscape of de novo mutations in humans 

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Supervisor: Georgia Isom

Transport to the bacterial outer membrane: building a barrier that confers antimicrobial resistance

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Supervisor: Girish Ram Mali

Mechanistic studies on protein folding and assembly of ciliary dynein motors

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Supervisor: Jordan Raff

Centrioles and centrosomes in health and disease

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Supervisor: Anthony Roberts

Cryo-EM of Transport Complexes that Build the Cell’s Antenna

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Supervisor: Sumana Sanyal

Viral manipulation of host cell biology for biogenesis and immune evasion

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Supervisor: Emma Slack

Decision-making in the intestinal immune system – what makes an oral antigen and immunogen?

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Supervisor: Geoffrey L Smith & Sumana Sanyal

A study of human E3 ubiquitin ligases that act as virus restriction factors

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