overview
Biomedical science explores our understanding of health, disease and ageing in human, animal and microbial systems. PhD candidates are encouraged to take an active role in the School's research community in areas of cancer cell biology, cardiovascular disease, microbiology and molecular biology.
Biomedical Science explores the processes of disease, from the molecular and cellular to the organ and organism level. You will be joining the Biomedical Research Group, which specialises in the molecular and cellular mechanisms underpinning the pathogenesis and aetiology of mammalian diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, myeloproliferative diseases, inflammation, thrombosis, tumorigenesis, vascular injury, and diabetes. We also have interests in G-protein coupled receptor signalling, the genetics of antibiotic resistance, virulence and evolution of bacteria.
We have a large multidisciplinary academic team ready to support you in your research, working across several research areas within the Biomedical Research Group including:
- Cancer Cell Biology
- Cardiovascular
- Genetics
- Microbiology
- Molecular Biology
- Pedagogy
The scientific facilities available to you comprise of two tissue culture laboratories, a molecular biology research laboratory and a full microbiology suite. Our advanced laboratory equipment and techniques include tissue culture with many different cell lines, cell transfection, flow cytometry, PCR (standard and real time), protein (SDS page, western blotting), ChIP Seq, fluorescence confocal microscopy and bioinformatics.
There will be opportunities to present your work and represent us at internal, national and international scientific conferences, and you will be fully immersed in the group’s research activities. We also encourage cross-discipline interaction with other research groups in our University.
In addition to our Biomedical Science PhD, we've also identified a range of innovative research project opportunities for you as a postgraduate researcher.
Supervision and Support
Our supervisory staff are recognised experts in their field. Their research expertise includes:
- Dr Joseph Bird - Skeletal disorders, ageing mechanisms and vascular disease
- Dr Havovi Chichger - Vascular disease and diabetes
- Dr Peter Coussons - Transglutaminase enzymes, cancer, antioxidants, catalytic antibodies, erythropoietin and rheumatoid arthritis
- Dr Clett Erridge - Innate immunity, atherosclerosis, and microbiota
- Dr Richard Jones - Macular degeneration
- Dr Linda King - Lipotoxicity and impairment of insulin signalling in type II diabetes
- Dr Helen McRobie - Melanism in the grey squirrel, mechanisms of antibiotic resistance
- Dr Chris O’Kane - DNA nanotechnology, cancer biology and pharmaceutical nanoscience
- Prof Christopher Parris - Human cancer and DNA repair
- Dr Claire Pike - Cancer, molecular biology, molecular genetics, epigenetics
- Dr Grisha Pirianov - Regulation of the inflammatory response, proinflammatory mediators, tol-like receptors, anti-inflammatory drugs
- Dr Nicholas Pugh - Platelet signalling pathways
- Dr Felicity Savage - Colonic wound healing, inflammatory bowel disease
- Dr Jim Sullivan - Ubiquitin, post-translational modification, protein trafficking
- Dr Caray Walker - Pathogenesis of bacterial animal pathogens
Your faculty
The Faculty of Science & Engineering is one of the largest of the four faculties at Anglia Ruskin University. Whether you choose to study with us full-time or part-time, on campus or at a distance, there’s an option whatever your level – from a foundation degree, BSc, MSc, PhD or professional doctorate.
Whichever course you pick, you’ll gain the theory and practical skills needed to progress with confidence. Join us and you could find yourself learning in the very latest laboratories or on field trips or work placements with well-known and respected companies. You may even have the opportunity to study abroad.
Everything we do in the faculty has a singular purpose: to provide a world-class environment to create, share and advance knowledge in science, technology and engineering fields. This is key to all of our futures.
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