DPhil Projects for 2025-26 Entry
Please see below the list of DPhil projects for entry to the programme in 2025-26.
- Elucidating the role of tumour microenvironment in breast cancer metastasis
- The Fanconi anaemia pathway and cancer: a molecular dissection
- Hypermutation as a driving force for cancer: Is there an error threshold for cancer cells?
- Stromal decision making in chromosomally unstable oesophageal adenocarcinoma
- Understanding how to effectively reprogram the immunosuppressive tumour microenvironment to improve tumour responses while limiting toxicity
- MRC iCASE: Neuropeptide regulation of gastric motility as a comorbidity and diagnostic for endometriosis and pancreatic cancer
- Accelerator technology advancements enabling MV photon FLASH radiotherapy
- Developing novel therapeutic strategies to improve radiotherapy
- Developing a novel type of cancer vaccine for genetically-defined tumours
- Characterisation of the cross-talk between the hypoxia-induced DNA damage and unfolded protein responses
- UKHSA project - Identifying biomarkers to prevent medical radiation toxicity: Role of Adipose tissue in skin toxicity during radiotherapy
- Hippo signalling in Natural Killer Cells maturation and function
- Tumour avatars of patients for assessment of therapeutic efficacy
- Developing a neoantingen-like, ROP=based vaccine targeting SVN (ROP-SVN) to boost host immune responses.
- Neutrophil biology in chromosomally unstable cancer
- Designing Novel Vectors for Targeted In Vivo Transduction of Monocytes to Deliver Cancer Therapeutics into the Tumour Microenvironment