Immunology and Inflammation
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PhD
In Glasgow
Description
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Type
PhD
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Location
Glasgow (Scotland)
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Start date
Different dates available
The immune system provides vital protection against infection, and can be manipulated by vaccination to provide life-long resistance to pathogens. However, immune and inflammatory responses also make a major contribution to a spectrum of human pathologies, from chronic inflammatory disease, allergy and autoimmunity, neuroinflammatory disorders and brain immune interactions, to heart disease and cancer. Research in the Centre for Immunobiology within the Institute for Infection, Immunity and Inflammation is focused on generating a molecular and cellular understanding of the immune system in health and disease, and applying this knowledge to the development of novel therapeutics. This is built on close interactions between an excellent cohort of scientists and clinicians within the Centre, and on the networks of collaborators they have established with researchers in the rest of the Institute, elsewhere in the University, and further afield. Our staff and students benefit from access to state-of-the-art laboratory facilities in the Sir Graeme Davis building at the heart of the University and in clinical units in hospitals across Glasgow. We have expertise in a broad range of techniques, including molecular biology, ‘Omics, cell biology, multiparameter flow cytometry, intravital imaging, and in vivo models of disease, and these approaches allow us to explore the immune system at the molecular, cellular and whole organism level.
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Reviews
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Great staff and people were good, they were approachable, societies were great full of passion. I had a great experience.
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I have discovered my university experience so far to some degree connecting, despite the fact that a large portion of the material isn't new, it is worked through at a quickened pace.
← | →
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Great friends, lectures were awesome and Glasgow is an amazing place exploring novel ideas of learning.
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Course rating
Recommended
Centre rating
Patrick
Joe
Trudic Lister
Subjects
- IT
- Biology
- Infection
- University
- Cell Biology
- Immunology
- Imaging
Course programme
PhD programmes in virology last 3-4 years and are based on individual research projects covering the interest of the supervisor.
The PhD programme in Immunobiology is based on individual research projects covering an exciting range of topics, with specific areas of interest including (in alphabetical order):
- Atherosclerosis.
- Bioinformatics.
- Cancer and leukaemia.
- Chemokines and cell migration.
- Cytokine biology.
- Dendritic cell biology.
- Imaging the immune response.
- Infectious disease.
- Intestinal immunity.
- Intracellular signalling and transcriptional regulation.
- Lymphocyte biology.
- Neuroimmunology, including repair strategies forbrain repair following immunologically mediated injury (Multiple Sclerosis, Guillain-Barré syndrome) and spinal cord injury using glial/stem cell transplantation and antibody profiling.
- Osteoimmunology.
- Rheumatology.
- Tissue injury and repair; focus on regenerative medicine.
Additional information
All Postgraduate Research Students are allocated a supervisor who will act as the main source of academic support and research mentoring.You may want to identify a potential supervisor and contact them to discuss your research proposal before you apply.
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Immunology and Inflammation