Prospective Postgraduates

International postgraduate students

The School welcomes applications from self-funded/sponsored International students. For details of projects available please see below. You can find information on fees and funding from the links on the left.
Clinical Students
We need to make it clear that while you will develop your research skills, completion of a research degree will not qualify you to follow specialist vocational training in this country or allow you to carry out clinical work during or following your studies. For this you need qualifications that enable you to register with the General Medical Council. For further information contact the GMC
Accommodation
The University's Accommodation office guarantees*** to offer you a room in University arranged accommodation for one year. *** Provided you have accepted your place on a postgraduate course and they receive your application for accommodation before 1st August 2008 - further details are available from the Accommodation Office.
Other information
You can find other information such as living and working in the UK, visa requirements etc from the University's International Office website.

Projects available to self funded/sponsored international students (currently being updated)



Research Co-ordinator(s)	Research Group	Project Title	Project Keywords	Cost Band
Dr Ravi Mahajan	Anaesthesia and Intensive Care	Several projects oriented towards: :Critical Care	sepsis, vascular tissue, muscle, myography, transcranial doppler ultrasonography, laser doppler flowmetry, baroreceptor sensitivity, finometer, haemodynamic monitoring pulse plethesmography for vascular compliance.	D
Dr J Hardman Dr I Moppett	Anaesthesia and Intensive Care	Several projects oriented towards: : Pathophysiological Modelling	Computational lung model, Mechanical ventilation, in-silico investigation, micro- and macro-circulatory flow, gas exchange, cerebral blood flow	D
Dr J Hardman	Anaesthesia and Intensive Care	Several projects oriented towards: : Patient Safety and monitoring	intelligent alarms, human device interactions, real time diagnosis, anaesthesia monitoring	C and E1
Dr I Moppett	Anaesthesia and Intensive Care	Several projects oriented towards: : System level vascular physiology	cerebral blood flow, forearm skin vascular reactivity,	D
Dr C Chapman and Professor J Robertson	Breast Surgery	Earlier Detection of Female Cancers using Autoantibodies	Autoantibodies; Breast Cancer; Ovarian Cancer; Diagnosis; Immunologic tests; Tumour markers; Antigens	E1
Dr C Chapman and Professor J Robertson	Breast Surgery	Earlier Detection of Lung Cancer using Autoantibodies	Autoantibodies; Lung Cancer; Diagnosis; Immunologic tests; Tumour markers; Antigens	E1
Dr C Chapman and Professor J Robertson	Breast Surgery	Earlier Detection of Colorectal Cancer using Autoantibodies	Autoantibodies; Colorectal Cancer; Diagnosis; Immunologic tests; Tumour markers; Antigens	E1
Dr C Chapman and Dr A Green	Breast Surgery	Analysis of Tumour-Infiltrating B-cells in Breast Cancer	Breast Cancer; B-cells; Tumour Prognosis; Immunoglobulin genes; IHC; tissue microdissection; gene expression	E1
Mr K L Cheung	Breast Surgery	Early primary breast cancer in the elderly – Long-term outcome from a single centre	early breast cancer, elderly	D
Mr K L Cheung	Breast Surgery	Characterisation of serum tumour marker assays for potential use in early therapeutic intervention in patients with primary breast cancer	serum assays, tumour markers, occult metastases, metastatic	D
Prof SA Watson	Gastrointestinal Surgery/Cancer Studies		Gastrin, Metalloproteinases, Malignancy	E1
Professor P Bath	Stroke Medicine	Acute stroke: cerebral blood flow	acute stroke, cerebral blood flow, blood pressure	E1
Professor P Bath	Stroke Medicine	Optimising the analysis of stroke trials	statistics, analysis, randomised controlled trial, stroke	C
Professor P Bath	Stroke Medicine	Blood pressure lowering in acute stroke	acute stroke, radiology, CT scan, MRI scan, blood pressure	E1
Professor P Bath	Stroke Medicine	Blood pressure lowering in acute stroke	acute stroke, radiology, CT scan, MRI scan, blood pressure	E1
Dr U Bayraktutan, Associate Professor	Stroke Medicine	Roles of small GTP-binding proteins in ischaemic stroke-related blood-brain barrier leakage	Ischaemic stroke, Cerebral vasculature, Rho, Rac, Nitric oxide Cost	E1
Dr U Bayraktutan, Associate Professor	Stroke Medicine	Assessment of the relative contributions of vascular growth factors and reactive oxygen species to diabetic cerebrovascular damage	Hyperglycaemia, Cerebrovascular system, Stroke, VEGF, NADPH oxidase, Nitric oxide, Endothelium	E1
Dr S Johnson	Therapeutics & Molecular Medicine	Regulation of airway smooth muscle matrix metalloproteinases by extra-cellular matrix	Airway remodelling, asthma, smooth muscle, matrix metalloproteinases, cell / matrix interactions, 3D cell culture	D
Dr S Johnson	Therapeutics & Molecular Medicine	Dose response relationships of rapamycin in TSC-2 null cells	Tuberous sclerosis complex, mTOR, proliferation, apoptosis	D
Dr S Johnson	Therapeutics & Molecular Medicine	mTOR / oestrogen interactions in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex and lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM)	Tuberous sclerosis complex, LAM, mTOR, proliferation, xenograft model	D
Dr K Robinson Professor J Atherton	Wolfson Digestive Diseases Centre	The role of the human T-cell response to Helicobacter pylori in gastric carcinogenesis.	Helicobacter pylori, human T-cell response, carcinogenesis	E1
Dr R Delahay Professor J Atherton	Wolfson Digestive Diseases Centre	Deconstructing the enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) Type III secretion pathway by definition of the protein-protein interactions that mediate effector protein export	type III secretion, EPEC, protein interactions	D