2022-23 DPhil Projects
2022-23 DPhil Oncology Project List
- Adipocytes as a source of nutrition for breast cancer cells - Dr Simon Lord
- Understanding the effects of immunomodulatory therapies on radiation response - Dr Monica Olcina
- Understanding complement system dysregulation in the tumour microenvironment - Dr Monica Olcina
- Targeting polymerase theta as a way to improve radiotherapy and immunotherapy - Dr Geoff Higgins
- The crosstalk between tumour microenvironments and MAFF to determine transcriptional activation or repression - Dr Ejung Moon
- Understanding how DNA repair pathway choice is controlled in human cells -Andy Blackford
- The Artemis DNA Repair nucleases – from mechanism to therapeutic inhibition - Peter McHugh
- Molecular characterisation of hypoxia-induced R-loops - Ester Hammond
- Ubiquitin signaling in the pathogenesis and radiotherapy of glioblastoma - Vincenzo D'Angiolella
- Characterisation of DNA-protein crosslink proteolysis repair in cancer therapy with the focus on trapped-PARP1 toxicity - Kristijan Ramadan
- The regulation of Mre11-Rad50-Nbs1 (MRN) complex disassembly in response to ionising radiation - Kristijan Ramadan
- Comprehensive analysis of the EBV genome in endemic Burkitt's Lymphoma - Anna Schuh
Please note these projects are unfunded.
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