Using computer simulations to model the separation of circulating tumour cells from blood cells as an early diagnostic tool for cancer
Using computer simulations to model the separation of circulating tumour cells from blood cells as an early diagnostic tool for cancer
About the Project Background: Circulating tumour cells are a known biomarker of cancer and can be found in the blood from Stage 1 onwards. Successful identification of circulating tumour cells … Read More Read More
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Fibre laser based mid infrared sources and their applications
Fibre laser based mid infrared sources and their applications
About the Project Supervisory Team : Dr Lin Xu, Prof David Richardson Project Description The mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectral region of 2-20 µm contains strong characteristic vibrational transitions of many important … Read More Read More
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Hypoxic-Ischaemic Encephalopathy early detection by using Image Analysis of MRI Susceptibility Weighted Imaging
Hypoxic-Ischaemic Encephalopathy early detection by using Image Analysis of MRI Susceptibility Weighted Imaging
About the Project Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE) affects babies' brains during the childbirth due to shortages of oxygen. Using computer vision and machine learning techniques, HIE disease is diagnosed much earlier … Read More Read More
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Investigating the effects of structural openings on blast wave propagation and human injury risk
Investigating the effects of structural openings on blast wave propagation and human injury risk
About the Project Co Supervisor: Prof Steeve Chung Kim Yuen, University of Cape Town This PhD project offers you the opportunity to undertake cutting edge blast engineering research to inform … Read More Read More
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Using multiomics and AlphaFold to develop new bioinformatics approaches to aid personalized medicine
Using multiomics and AlphaFold to develop new bioinformatics approaches to aid personalized medicine
About the Project Applications are invited for a prestigious EPSRC research studentship leading to the award of a PhD degree, under the supervision of Dr. Alessia David (Dept of Life … Read More Read More
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Frankenstein's Algorithmic Lightning: AI methods for defibrillation
Frankenstein's Algorithmic Lightning: AI methods for defibrillation
About the Project About this project Fibrillation is the state of a heart in which many electrical waves strongly interact and reduce the efficacy of the heart to pump oxygenated … Read More Read More
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Forces in Focus: How do Actin Filament Networks Shape Cellular Mechanics?
Forces in Focus: How do Actin Filament Networks Shape Cellular Mechanics?
About the Project Living cells maintain and change their shape, adhere to surfaces, spread and divide by harnessing a dynamic filamentous structure termed the cytoskeleton. The primary component of the … Read More Read More
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Developing an advanced microscopy platform to study protein aggregates in neurons
Developing an advanced microscopy platform to study protein aggregates in neurons
About the Project Department of Brain Sciences at Imperial PhD studentship in advanced fluorescence microscopy to study Parkinson’s disease and dementia with Lewy bodies, Imperial College London Applications are invited … Read More Read More
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Investigating abnormal calcium release as a cause of sudden cardiac death in inherited heart disease
Investigating abnormal calcium release as a cause of sudden cardiac death in inherited heart disease
About the Project Sudden cardiac death resulting from disturbances in heart rhythm is a major cause of death globally. It is known that the structure and function of heart muscle … Read More Read More
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[FSE Bicentenary PhD] Beyond AlphaFold: putting the physics back into protein folding
[FSE Bicentenary PhD] Beyond AlphaFold: putting the physics back into protein folding
About the Project One half of the 2024 Nobel prize of Chemistry went to the prediction of protein structure from amino acid sequences. This long-awaited achievement was made possible by … Read More Read More
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