Members of the school have a diverse range of research interests. Please search the table below to identify potential PhD supervisors.

Supervisors	Research areas
Dr Alan Whone	movement disorder
Dr Alastair Wilkins	stem cells, PPAR, peroxisome, taiep rat, EAE
Dr Ali Bienemann	Functional Neurosurgery , Convection-enhanced delivery, Translation, Interdisciplinary, Glioma
Dr Andrew Moore	Qualitative, Arthritis, Chronic Pain, Surgery, Health services
Dr Andrew Mumford	Haemotology
Dr Andrew Wills	Life course epidemiology, Medical Statistics, Childhood growth
Dr Anne-Marie O'Carroll	Neuroendocrinology, G Protein-coupled receptors, Neuropeptides, Apelin, Gene expression
Dr Becky Conway-Campbell	Glucocorticoids, Glucocorticoid Receptor, Hippocampus, Chromatin, Transcription
Dr Becky Foster	Diabetic nephropathy, Endothelial glycocalyx, Angiopoietin-1, VEGF-C, Albuminuria
Dr Celia Gregson	Fracture, Osteoporosis, Epidemiology, Genetics, Ageing
Dr Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci	Cardiology, Cardiovascular Imaging, Cardiac MRI
Dr Claire Perks	epithelial cancers, metabolism, obesity, IGF axis, cancer progression
Dr Claire Rice	multiple sclerosis, stem cells
Dr Colin Chu	Uveitis, Autoimmunity, Ophthalmology, RNA-Seq, Gene Therapy
Dr Daniel Whitcomb	Alzheimer's disease; glutamate receptors; synaptic plasticity; synaptic function
Dr Denize Atan	Memory, Genetics, Hippocampus, Retina, Epigenetics
Dr Dimitrios Siassakos	stillbirth, bereavement, education, obesity, pregnancy
Dr Ela Chakkarapani	perinatal brain injury, neuroprotection, Translational research
Dr Elsa Marques	Economic evaluation of health care, Health economics, Costs, Cost effectiveness, Clinical trials
Dr Emma Clark	hypermobility, scoliosis, vertebral fractures, osteoporosis, pain
Dr Erik Lenguerrand	epidemiology in obstetrics, epidemiology in orthopaedics, clinical trial in obstetrics, clinical trial in orthopaedics
Dr Francesca Spiga	Glucocorticoids, Adrenal gland, Stress, HPA axis, Steroidogenesis
Dr Gavin Welsh	Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis, Podocyte, Kidney disease, Cell signalling, Cytoskeleton
Dr Giovanni Biglino	cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging, congenital heart disease, hemodynamics, medical 3D printing, biomechanics
Dr Iain Dykes	congenital heart disease, mouse genetics, embryonic development, non-coding RNA, Exosome
Dr Jade Thai	Clinical Neuroimaging, Multiple Sclerosis, Chronic Fatigue, Functional MRI, Developmental disorders
Dr Jason Johnson	Cardiovascular, inflammation, Proteases, MicroRNA, Angiogenesis
Dr Karen Luyt	neuroprotection, brain injury, prematurity, brain development
Dr Kate Whittington
Dr Kathleen Gillespie	autoimmunity, genetic mechanisms, maternal cells, functional pancreatic beta cells, NK cells, diabetes
Dr Kathreena Kurian	Brain tumour, brain cancer, Glioma, Neuroncology, Neuroscience
Dr Liang-Fong Wong	neurodegenerative disease, spinal cord injury, gene therapy, stem cells, neuroscience
Dr Linda Hunt	musculoskeletal
Dr Lindsay Nicholson	Autoimmunity, Autoimmune disease, Ophthalmology, T cells, Macrophages
Dr Liz Coulthard	Dementia, Memory, Clinical trials, Cognition, Alzheimer's disease
Dr Maria Pufulete	cardiac surgery
Dr Mark Bond	cAMP-dependent signalling pathways, transcriptional regulation of vascular cell behaviour
Dr Michael Whitehouse	Total hip replacement, Total knee replacement, Trauma and fractures, Patient reported outcome measures, Registries
Dr Mohamed Ghorbel	Congenital Heart Disease, Genomics, Tissue-Engineering, Stem Cells, Transnational Research
Dr Mohammed Sharif	osteoarthritis, joint disease, joints, joint tissue, loss of cartilage
Dr Oscar Cordero Llana	Parkinson's Disease, Neurodegeneration, Neural Stem Cells, iPSCs, Astrocytes
Dr Richard Lee	Human immunology, Eye, Corticosteroids, Immunotherapy, Immune biomarkers
Dr Scott Miners	dementia, Alzheimer's disease, cardiovascular, neuropathology, renin-angiotensin system
Dr Shelley Allen-Birt	Alzheimer's disease, Neurodegeneration, Microbiome, Neuroinflammation, Neurotrophins
Dr Simon Satchell	Diabetes, Renal disease, Kidney glomerulus, Vascular biology, Endothelium
Dr Sofia Theodoropoulou	retinal disease, angiogenesis, macular degeneration, autoimmunity, retinal metabolism
Dr Stephen Lolait	vasopressin, receptors, stress, behaviour, hippocampus
Dr Umberto Benedetto	cardiac surgery
Dr Vikki Wylde	Joint replacement, Clinical research, Chronic pain, Randomised trials, Randomised trials
Mr Alistair Williams	Autoantibodies, Autoimmunity, Type 1 Diabetes, Pancreas, Coeliac disease
Mr Mustafa Zakkar	cardiothoracic surgery
Professor Adam Finn	Paediatrics, Infectious Diseases, Immunology, Vaccines, Microbiology
Professor Andrés Lopez Bernal	human pregnancy and birth, preterm labour, uterine contractility, myometrial receptors, cell signalling
Professor Andrew Dick	Immunobiology, Mouse inflammatory models, Ocular inflammatory disease, Immune endophenotyping, Clinical Uveitis
Professor Andrew Levy	medical training manikin design, endocrinology, pituitary disease, intellectual property licensing
Professor Ashley Blom	arthroplasty, registries, infection, surgical trials, hip and knee replacement
Professor Astrid Lindhorst	seratonin, noradrenaline, GABA, corticosterone, Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenocortical (HPA) axis
Professor Barnaby Reeves	randomised controlled trials (RCTs), health care evaluation, cardiovascular disease, surgery, ophthalmology
Professor Chris Rogers	heart surgery, heart transplantation, cox regression modeling, lung transplantation, low volume operations
Professor Colin Dayan	Diabetes
Professor Costanza Emanueli	microRNAs, embryonic stem cells, ischaemic disease, translational research, molecular medicine
Professor Craig McArdle	cell signalling, G-protein coupled receptor signalling, G-protein coupled receptor trafficking, gonadotrophin-releasing hormone signalling, ERK signalling
Professor David Cahill	endometriosis, ovarian endocrinology, ovulation induction, infertility, reproductive medicine
Professor David Murphy	Molecular neuroendocrinology, Hypertension, Transcriptomics, Transcription, In vivo gene manipulation
Professor David Wynick	galanin, GalR2, DRG, neuropathic pain
Professor Frank Smith	ischaemic heart, peripheral vascular disease, hyperplasia, vein bypass grafts
Professor Gianni Angelini	Saphenous vein bypass graft failure, Beating heart surgery, Arterial revascularisation, Mitral valve repair, Cardiac surgery
Professor Hans Reul	stress, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis, autonomic nervous system, glucocorticoid, signalling pathways
Professor James Uney	molecular neuroscience, huntington's disease, Alzheimer's disease, apoptosis, neurodegeneration
Professor Jeffrey Holly	IGFs, insulin-like growth factor II, life-course epidemiology, cancer
Professor Jonathan Tobias	osteoporosis , bone development
Professor Julian Hamilton-Shield	Children, nutrition, diabetes, obesity, metabolism
Professor Julian Hughes	dementia, palliative care, mental health, mental capacity, ageing
Professor Karen Forbes	Pallative medicine, pallative care, end of life care, life-limiting illness
Professor Kei Cho	Alzheimer's, beta-amyloid, excitatory synapse, long-term synaptic plasticity, calcium-sensor
Professor Marcus Drake	Incontinence, Urodynamics, Neuro-urology, Bladder physiology, LUTS (lower urinary tract symptoms)
Professor Massimo Caputo	Congenital Cardiac Surgery, Tissue Engineering Regenerative Medicine, Ischemia Reperfusion Injury, Myocardial Protection and Omics, 3D modeling and imaging in congenital heart disease
Professor Moin Saleem	Kidney; paediatric; podocyte; genetics; cardiovascular
Professor Neil Scolding	multiple sclerosis, stem cells, bone marrow, vasculitis, sarcoid
Professor Nick Maskell	Pleura, pleural effusion, mesothelioma, pleural infection, pleural malignancy
Professor Paolo Madeddu	Cardiovascular regenerative medicine, Stem cells, Diabetes complications, Ischemia
Professor Patrick Kehoe	Alzheimer's, Vascular, Dementia, Drug Repurposing, Angiotensin
Professor Polly Bingley	type 1 diabetes, diabetes prevention, diabetes autoantibodies
Professor Rachael Gooberman-Hill	pain, musculoskeletal, qualitative, health services research, implementation science
Professor Raimondo Ascione	Innovation in Cardiac Surgery, Stem cells for myocardial repair, Vascular tissue bioengineering, Cardiovascular Drug/Device development, Translational research in large animals
Professor Richard Coward	kidney, glomerulus, transgenic mouse, podocyte, diabetic kidney disease
Professor Saadeh Suleiman	Cardiac Physiology, Cellular Cardiology, Development and Ageing, Cardio-protection
Professor Sarah George	atherosclerosis, vein graft, cell signalling, heart disease, tissue engineering
Professor Seth Love	Apolipoprotein E, amyloid, ischaemia, blood-brain barrier
Professor Stafford Lightman	Stress, circadian rhythm, Ultradian rhythm, Cortisol, Apathy
Professor Tim Peters	Health Services Research, Randomised controlled trials, Primary health care, Statistical methods, Epidemiology