Research Projects
Female fertility and offspring health are critically dependent on the maintenance of an adequate supply of high quality oocytes. Little is known...
Supervisor: Dr Jessica Stringer
Breastfeeding, the biological norm of feeding babies, provides numerous health benefits to babies. Infant-formula-feeding is thought to be inferior...
Supervisor: Professor Peter Meikle
The COVID19 pandemic has highlighted the vulnerability of older individuals to suffer more severe disease outcomes from infectious respiratory...
Supervisor: Dr Anna Hearps
Objective:
To explore the effects of multiple anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (a-tDCS) sessions on the right primary somatosensory...
Supervisor: Professor Shapour Jaberzadeh
Objective:
To explore the effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on corticospinal excitability and the balance between cortical...
Supervisor: Professor Shapour Jaberzadeh
This project aims to investigate the role that allied health professionals play in enhancing patient care within general practice settings. Allied...
Supervisor: Dr Kimberley Norman
This project involves a systematic scoping review of literature related to the involvement of families in research co-design following the death of a...
Supervisor: Sid Vemuri
There is a proposed link between cardiovascular disease and dementia. This may be an important public health message to amplify to increase risk...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Lisa Moran
Background: Advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs), formed via the processing of foods, are a major constituent of our modern convenience diet....
Supervisor: Professor Melinda Coughlan
Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP) is a disorder with a growing incidence and hidden clinical burden of disease. At present, there are relatively few...
Supervisor: Dr Shayanti Mukherjee
Endometriosis often starts in adolescence, yet adolescents’ symptoms are often misunderstood and diagnosis is difficult. A general practitioner (GP)...
Supervisor: Dr Sharinne Crawford
Type 2 diabetes and coronary artery disease (CAD) are two closely related chronic diseases with a high prevalence worldwide. Both diseases share...
Supervisor: Yung-Chih Chen VMD, PhD
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) are characterised by ineffective erythropoiesis, which suppresses the production of hepcidin in the liver, leading to...
Supervisor: Dr Jim Vadolas
This is an exciting opportunity to undertake impactful research on a novel forensic tool, the Early Evidence Kit (EEK), focusing on its potential to...
Supervisor: Dr Reena
Breastfeeding, the biological norm of feeding babies, provides numerous health benefits to babies. Infant-formula-feeding is thought to be inferior...
Supervisor: Professor Peter Meikle
Exosomes are small vesicles (50-150 nm in size) secreted by most cell types and are involved in cell - cell communication and regulation of immune...
Supervisor: Professor Brian Cooke
Perimenopause is the transition period in which women experience changes in reproductive hormones resulting in significant decrease in circulating...
Supervisor: Dr Kay Nguo
In several cancer types, a higher tumour mutational burden (TMB) has been associated with increased immune cell infiltration into tumours and better...
Supervisor: Professor Nicholas Huntington
Pharmacotherapy, when used with regard to substance dependence refers to the replacement of a person’s drug of choice with a legally prescribed and...
Supervisor: Dr Peter Higgs
There has been an increase in online prescription services offering access to contraception methods without having to physically meet with a medical...
Supervisor: Dr Anisa Assifi