Potential Projects: Infectious Disease
2023-24 MRC LID Studentships – potential projects under the Infectious Disease theme.
| Supervisors | Project Title | Cross Institutional Supervision | Theme/s | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya Bustinduy & Sanjeev Krishna & Bonnie Webster | Development, implementation and assessment of isothermal point-of-care molecular diagnostics for both Female Genital Schistosomiasis and Human Papillomavirus | Yes | Translational & Implementation Research; Global Health; Infectious Disease | Isothermal diagnostics; multiplex, neglected tropical diseases; schistosomiasis; human papillomavirus |
| Helena Carreira & Harriet Forbes & Krishnan Bhaskaran | Severe infection outcomes among cancer survivors in the UK | No | Health Data Science | Electronic health records; Cancer; Infections; Outcomes research |
| Rosalind Eggo & Graham Medley | Modelling the disorganised ecology of post-pandemic respiratory viruses | No | Infectious Disease; Health Data Science | Mathematical modelling; Epidemiology; Respiratory viruses; Methodological novelty |
| Jon Friedland & Deborah Chong | The role of platelet-fibroblast interactions in the pathology of pulmonary tuberculosis | No | Infectious Disease; Global Health | Tuberculosis; Innate immunity; Fibroblasts; Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs); Platelets |
| Ozan Gundogdu & Brendan Wren | Campylobacter pathogenesis: the Unfolded Protein Response (UPR), inflammation and human disease | No | Infectious Disease; Global Health | Campylobacter, Gastroenteritis; inflammation; Unfolded Protein Response (UPR) |
| Gwen Knight & Jodi Lindsay | Antimicrobial Resistance Diversity: quantification, evolution, and importance for public health | Yes | Infectious Disease; Health Data Science; Global Health; Translational & Implementation Research | Antimicrobial resistance; mathematical modelling; MRSA; resistance diversity; intervention impact |
| Julian Ma & Audrey Teh | Engineering monoclonal secretory antibodies for mucosal immunotherapy | No | Infectious Disease; Translational & Implementation Research; Global Health | Antibody engineering; mucosal immunotherapy; molecular farming; passive immunisation |
| Finn McQuaid & Gwen Knight | Comparing drug-resistant tuberculosis empirical treatment choices | No | Infectious Disease; Global Health; Health Data Science | Tuberculosis; Drug-resistance; Modelling; Health Economics |
| Chrissy Roberts & Amaya Bustinduy | Data science platforms for enhanced analytics and monitoring of female genital schistosomiasis and related health impacts | No | Health Data Science; Infectious Disease; Global Health | Machine Learning; Technology; Female Genital Schistosomiasis; Mixed Methods; Programming; Sexual and Reproductive health |
| Henry Staines & Elisabetta Groppelli | Development and evaluation of novel point-of-need cervical cancer screening devices to improve women’s health in low resource settings | No | Infectious Disease; Global Health | Molecular biology; PCR; Diagnostics; Infectious diseases; Cervical cancer |
| Henry Staines & Kirsty Le Doare & Elisabetta Groppelli | Impact of climate change on human health: detection of known and emerging mosquito-transmitted arboviruses in East Africa | No | Infectious Disease; Global Health | Molecular virology; Diagnostic development; Climate change impact on human health |
| Elizabeth Williamson & Neil Pearce | Designing optimal rapid data collection strategies to maximise the utility of routinely collected health data for predicting risk of death from an emerging infectious disease | No | Health Data Science; Infectious Disease | Infectious disease; risk prediction; electronic health records; statistical methodology |