Rebecca Shepherd4-year PhD Studentship: Understanding barriers and facilitators of dietary and lifestyle interventions to reduce side effects of treatment and improve outcomes in South Asian men with prostate cancer
4-year PhD Studentship: Understanding barriers and facilitators of dietary and lifestyle interventions to reduce side effects of treatment and improve outcomes in South Asian men with prostate cancer
About the Project Prostate Cancer (PCa) is a leading cause of male mortality, with 336,000 deaths worldwide each year (1). Although most PCa cases are indolent, slow-growing, and tend not … Read More Read More
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Katie PorterPhD Studentship: Safer innovation
PhD Studentship: Safer innovation
About the Project About us The UCL Division of Surgery and Interventional Science (DSIS) is a collaborative and cross-disciplinary environment where clinicians, scientists, engineers, and allied health professionals are constantly … Read More Read More
Categories:4-year PhD Studentship: Investigating the causal relationship between atopic dermatitis and cardiovascular disease in multiple ancestry groups
4-year PhD Studentship: Investigating the causal relationship between atopic dermatitis and cardiovascular disease in multiple ancestry groups
About the Project Atopic dermatitis (AD) or eczema affects 20% of children and 10% of adults, where the prevalence is reported to be higher among individuals of Asian and African … Read More Read More
Categories:4-year PhD Studentship: Investigating the interactions of incretin hormone mimetics with hypothalamo-neurohypophysial system arginine vasopressin and oxytocin release
4-year PhD Studentship: Investigating the interactions of incretin hormone mimetics with hypothalamo-neurohypophysial system arginine vasopressin and oxytocin release
About the Project Our research focus over decades has been the osmoregulatory function of a special collection of neurones in a part of the brain called the hypothalamus. Magnocellular neurones … Read More Read More
Categories:4-year PhD Studentship: Prevalence of stigma, discrimination and violence among people who inject drugs globally and their impact on HIV and hepatitis C infection
4-year PhD Studentship: Prevalence of stigma, discrimination and violence among people who inject drugs globally and their impact on HIV and hepatitis C infection
About the Project People who inject drugs have one of the highest risks of HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, and are one of the most vulnerable populations in … Read More Read More
Categories:4-year PhD Studentship: Understanding the role of adiponectin in kidney disease development at a population level
4-year PhD Studentship: Understanding the role of adiponectin in kidney disease development at a population level
About the Project Reduced circulating adiponectin levels are associated with poor outcome in patients with diabetic kidney disease (DKD) (1). Adiponectin has been shown to be protective against the development … Read More Read More
Categories:4-year PhD Studentship: Quantifying prognosis in the current era of antiretroviral therapy among persons with HIV in Europe and North America across different HIV acquisition route groups
4-year PhD Studentship: Quantifying prognosis in the current era of antiretroviral therapy among persons with HIV in Europe and North America across different HIV acquisition route groups
About the Project In Europe and North America, prognosis for persons with HIV (PWHIV) has improved since the introduction of combined antiretroviral in 1996[1]. There has been considerable research into … Read More Read More
Categories:Climate change and perinatal health: combining epidemiological data with climate projection models
Climate change and perinatal health: combining epidemiological data with climate projection models
About the Project Rationale Climate change will affect human health through changes to heat stress, sanitation, access to sufficient food and safe drinking water, disease patterns, migration, and frequency of … Read More Read More
Categories:4-year PhD Studentship: Disentangling the pathways and molecular basis of inverse associations between Alzheimer's disease and cancer
4-year PhD Studentship: Disentangling the pathways and molecular basis of inverse associations between Alzheimer's disease and cancer
About the Project Epidemiological studies and systematic reviews report unexplained inverse associations between risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD) and risk of cancer (Shafi, (2016); Zablocka et al (2021)). Survival … Read More Read More
Categories:4-year PhD Studentship: Exploring the value of using large third-party artificial intelligence models in epidemiology, with examples using Twitter/X data
4-year PhD Studentship: Exploring the value of using large third-party artificial intelligence models in epidemiology, with examples using Twitter/X data
About the Project Large language models (LLMs) are an artificial intelligence approach that typically have a very large number of parameters (e.g. millions or billions) and have been trained on … Read More Read More
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