Projects
2026-27 MRC LID POTENTIAL RESEARCH PROJECTS
MRC LID is offering 40 distinct potential projects for the 2026-27 studentship application round. These are listed below.
Details about each project, including links to the supervisors, additional eligibility criteria and prerequisite academic and/or skills requirements, are available via the project title link below.
Where projects are co-supervised across the DTP (i.e. have a supervisor at each institution) students would be primarily registered with the institution where the first named supervisor is based.
Some projects have the potential to be converted to a CASE/iCASE Studentship. This will be noted on the project page where applicable.
Each potential project addresses at least one of the four overarching themes of the DTP and provides training in at least one of the MRC’s core skills areas.
The key information about our studentship scheme – including details about the funding, pre-application steps and a link to the online application form – are found on the MRC LID How to Apply page. Applicants must read through this information before looking at project options listed below.
The 2026-27 Projects listed below is also be available as a searchable summary spreadsheet. (Applicants must still access the project-specific pages via the links provided below for the full details and available relevant information on their selected project.)
Missing links for listed projects will be added as information is confirmed (over the next few days).
Project: Advancing genotype-phenotype correlations with Multiplex Assays of Variant Effect
Supervisors: Dr Christopher Carroll & Dr Alan Pittman
Primary Institution: City St George’s, University of London
Project: AI-driven multidimensional analysis of cilia as a biomarker of ageing and health
Supervisors: Dr Soo-Hyun Kim & Dr Constantino Carlos Reyes-Aldasoro & Dr Tom Barrick
Primary Institution: City St George’s, University of London
Project: AI-powered digital diagnostics for non-communicable disease screening in low-resource settings
Supervisors: Dr Sanjay Kinra & Dr Poppy Mallinson
Primary Institution: LSHTM
Project: Antimicrobial resistance: what happens with age and by sex?
Supervisors: Professor Gwen Knight & Dr Lanre Edun & Professor Jodi Lindsay
Primary Institution: LSHTM
Project: Assessing the safety of antibiotics for urinary tract infections in pregnancy using routinely collected data
Supervisors: Professor Joan Morris & Dr Liza Bowen & Professor Krishnan Bhaskaran
Primary Institution: City St George’s, University of London
Project: Birth Trauma and Recovery: Analysis of Cortisol Expression (TRACE)
Supervisors: Professor Susan Ayers & Dr Becca Webb
Primary Institution: City St George’s, University of London
Project: Climate change and youth crime: The impact of temperature on offending in children and young people in the UK
Supervisors: Dr Shay Soremekun & Professor Mitzy Gafos
Primary Institution: LSHTM
Project: Defining the role of hypoxia-mediated endothelial to mesenchymal transition (EndMT) in maladaptive cardiac remodelling
Supervisors: Dr Daniel Meijles & Dr Veronica Carroll & Dr Catherine Roberts
Primary Institution: City St George’s, University of London
Project: Developing novel diagnostics for the management of Dengue fever in a new era of pandemic preparedness
Supervisors: Dr Henry Staines & Dr Elisabetta Groppelli & Professor Sanjeev Krishna
Primary Institution: City St George’s, University of London
Project: Dissecting immune checkpoint PD-L1-mediated immune evasion in Klebsiella pneumoniae
Supervisors: Professor Jose Bengoechea & Professor Rajko Reljic
Primary Institution: LSHTM
Project: Dissecting the genetic modifiers of familial hypercholesterolaemia and coronary heart disease using whole-genome sequencing
Supervisors: Dr Marta Futema & Dr Roddy Walsh
Primary Institution: City St George’s, University of London
Project: Do hypnotic drugs increase the risk of dementia?
Supervisors: Dr Anne Suffel & Dr Helen Strongman & Professor Charlotte Warren-Gash
Primary Institution: LSHTM
Project: Economic evaluation and global health – the case of small countries
Supervisors: Dr Kyriaki Giorgakoudi & Dr Catrin Moore
Primary Institution: City St George’s, University of London
Project: Epidemiological impact of heterogeneity in community screening for tuberculosis
Supervisors: Dr Katherine Horton & Professor Rein Houben
Primary Institution: LSHTM
Project: Epidemiological modelling of the impact and mitigation of climate change on tuberculosis
Supervisors: Dr Finn McQuaid & Dr Matthew Saunders & Professor Helen Stagg
Primary Institution: LSHTM
Project: Evaluating the burden and risk factors of infectious diseases among newly arrived migrants in the UK, and exploring healthcare models to enhance infectious disease prevention
Supervisors: Professor Sally Hargreaves & Dr Nicky Longley & Dr Farah Seedat
Primary Institution: City St George’s, University of London
Project: Facilitating complex phenotyping for electronic health records research using large language models
Supervisors: Dr Julian Matthewman & Professor Sinéad Langan
Primary Institution: LSHTM
Project: From interaction to intervention: Multi-omics prioritisation and functional validation of a novel therapeutic avenue in pulmonary hypertension
Supervisors: Dr Laura Southgate & Dr Sara Dobbins
Primary Institution: City St George’s, University of London
Project: Healthy Homes: Longitudinal impacts of damp and mouldy housing on respiratory and allergic health in children and adults in the UK
Supervisors: Professor John Gulliver & Dr Sierra Clark & Dr Patrick Bidulka
Primary Institution: City St George’s, University of London
Project: How does severe mental illness affect risk of dementia?
Supervisors: Dr Georgia Gore-Langton & Professor Charlotte Warren-Gash
Primary Institution: LSHTM
Project: How should countries deliver new TB vaccines when risk factors are considered?
Supervisors: Dr Rebecca Clark & Professor Richard White
Primary Institution: LSHTM
Project: Identifying the Piezo2 receptor function and its role in the brain
Supervisors: Professor Katalin Török & Dr Olga Kopach
Primary Institution: City St George’s, University of London
Project: Improving interrupted time series analysis for the evaluation of vaccines and other public health interventions
Supervisors: Professor Christian Bottomley & Dr Kate Gallagher
Primary Institution: LSHTM
Project: Improving intervention design for health equity: inequality aversion parameters and infectious diseases in Africa
Supervisors: Professor James Hargreaves & Professor Tim Powell-Jackson
Primary Institution: LSHTM
Project: Injury surveillance information systems and health inequalities: advancing risk detection for workers in low-wage, high-risk occupational groups
Supervisors: Professor Cathy Zimmerman & Professor Sally Hargreaves & Dr Farah Seedat
Primary Institution: LSHTM
Project: Investigating the effect of influenza on risk of tuberculosis in South Africa
Supervisors: Dr Palwasha Khan & Dr Nicky McCreesh & Dr Tom Sumner
Primary Institution: LSHTM
Project: Investigating the immunological interplay in CMV, HIV and cryptococcus meningitis co-infections and its link to disease severity
Supervisors: Dr Elisabetta Groppelli & Professor Joe Jarvis & Professor Tom Harrison
Primary Institution: City St George’s, University of London
Project: LR AI ECGs: Improving cardiac care in low-resource settings using Artificial Intelligence tools for Electrocardiogram analysis
Supervisors: Dr Giacomo Tarroni & Dr Marta Varela
Primary Institution: City St George’s, University of London
Project: Mathematical modelling and clinical trial simulation of TB prevention
Supervisors: Dr Tom Sumner & Dr Rebecca Clark & Dr Daniel Grint
Primary Institution: LSHTM
Project: Mathematical modelling to optimise partner notification for sexually transmitted infections in low income settings
Supervisors: Professor Michael Marks & Professor Geoff Garnett
Primary Institution: LSHTM
Project: Modelling measles transmission risk in adults
Supervisors: Dr Alexis Robert & Professor Rosalind Eggo & Dr Anne Suffel
Primary Institution: LSHTM
Project: p16-related designer peptides: a new strategy against melanoma
Supervisors: Dr Anissa Chikh & Professor Dot Bennett
Primary Institution: City St George’s, University of London
Project: PHACTS: Unravelling PHAge-baCTeria-host immune dynamicS to inform phage therapy
Supervisors: Dr Zoe Dyson & Professor Serge Mostowy & Professor Gwen Knight
Primary Institution: LSHTM
Project: Predicting and mapping damp and mould in English housing to estimate impacts on hospital admissions for pneumonia and severe asthma
Supervisors: Dr Aidan Slingsby & Dr Patrick Bidulka & Dr Sierra Clark
Primary Institution: City St George’s, University of London
Project: Preparation for transmission: Dissecting the roles of novel genes required to ensure the infectivity of P. falciparum gametocyte
Supervisors: Dr Michael Delves & Dr Robert Moon
Primary Institution: LSHTM
Project: RIP-A enzyme therapy of MDR-TB
Supervisors: Professor Rajko Reljic & Dr Matthew Paul & Professor Julian Ma
Primary Institution: City St George’s, University of London
Project: Synthetic modelling of glial brain tumour MRI for improved analysis by AI
Supervisors: Professor Franklyn Howe & Dr Tom Barrick & Dr Giacomo Tarroni
Primary Institution: City St George’s, University of London
Project: The changing incidence of Urinary Tract Infections and community prescribing across the UK to inform co-creation of future interventions
Supervisors: Dr Catrin Moore & Dr Honor Bixby & Professor Charlotte Clark
Primary Institution: City St George’s, University of London
Project: The influence of dietary patterns and physical activity on premature ageing among urbanising communities in India: exploring the mediating roles of obesity, inflammation and gut microbiota
Supervisors: Dr Poppy Mallinson & Dr Sanjay Kinra & Dr Liza Bowen
Primary Institution: LSHTM
Project: Understanding erythrocyte invasion pathways for neglected malaria parasites
Supervisors: Dr Rob Moon & Professor Susana Campino
Primary Institution: LSHTM