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**New Projects On Offer for 2025** Vascular complications remain the major cause of mortality and morbidity in diabetes with increasing evidence...
Supervisor: Professor Sam El-Osta

There is a growing interest in the role of dietary therapies in the clinical management of ulcerative colitis. Recent data have indicated the...
Supervisor: Dr Chu (CK) Yao

The development of diabetic complications including vascular and renal disease is enhanced in diabetic patients. However, the underlying mechanism as...
Supervisor: Dr Jay C. Jha

Long COVID has emerged as a global health issue with long-term social and economic impacts. It is estimated that 5-10% of people infected with SARS-...
Supervisor: Dr Paul Gill

Abusive head trauma (AHT) is a devastating condition that causes profound disability in millions of children worldwide. Significant knowledge gaps...

Chronic kidney disease associated with diabetes, also known as diabetic kidney disease, is the leading cause of kidney failure in many developed...
Supervisor: Dr Sih Min Tan

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a complex and costly worldwide phenomenon that can lead to many negative health outcomes including disrupted...

Chronic pain initially presents itself acutely without indication that it will persist; making it difficult to catch before it develops and equally...

Background: Heart failure is the commonest cardiovascular cause for hospital admission in people aged >65years. It has become increasingly...

Menopause refers to the complete cessation of ovarian function that leads to relative sex hormone insufficiency, together with increased risk of...

Lung cancer is the second most common cancer in both men and woman, and non-small cell lung cancer accounts for 80% of lung cancer cases. Across...

Treatments that create or enhance anti-cancer immune responses have revolutionised the way that many cancers are treated and improved clinical...
Supervisor: Dr Miles Andrews

Work towards a PhD/MSc degrees, that will develop a computational analysis pipeline to localise the epileptogenic-zone (EZ) in the brain (patients...
Supervisor: Dr Steve Mehrkanoon

Antiepileptic drug is the mainstay of treatment modality for epilepsy. People with epilepsy often require lifelong antiepileptic drug treatment....

Stem cell-based therapies are emerging as novel and innovative approaches to treat neurological diseases. The successful development of these...
Supervisor: Dr Ana Antonic-Baker

The current standard of care for epilepsy is to commence treatment with a single antiseizure medication (ASM) and if it fails, try successive drug...

Seventy million people have epilepsy with 34–76 per 100,000 developing the condition every year. To formulate rational treatment plans, it is...

Background: Obesity and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) are two of the most significant health care problems facing our community – they are...
Supervisor: Professor Wendy Brown

Bariatric surgery is one of the most powerful health interventions available. A range of established surgical options are available, however,...
Supervisor: Dr Paul Burton

Exclusive enteral nutrition (ENN)-therapy is a first line therapy for IBD with efficacy similar to, or better, than that of corticosteroids....

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