Health Postgraduate Degrees in the Scotland

...Both yeast and mammalian systems will be used for this project... Learn about: Human Diseases...

...to create more complex physical phantoms of the human abdomen containing soft tissues, hard tissues, organs and the rib cage. Hard and soft polymers... Learn about: 3d training, Virtual CAD, Physical prototype...

...Diabetes is one of the major non-infectious threats to global health, affecting around 1 in 10 of the European population. Type 1 and type 2 diabetes... Learn about: Diabetes Clinical Care, Diabetes Nutrition, Blood glucose...

...time between diagnosis and treatment is still an unmet clinical need. Optical endoscopy and associated biophotonics imaging and sensing techniques do... Learn about: Clinical routine...

...curricula managers and leaders, faculty, students and patients... Learn about: Developing Clinical, Clinical coding, Clinical Issues...

...are extremely useful for research into areas including: early/preclinical diagnosis, disease progression, validation of treatment methods, development... Learn about: Research data, Data Management, Medical training...

...catalogue of genetic abnormalities in human cancer, and in some tumour types provided classifications useful for clinical decision making. However... Learn about: Clinical phenotype, Genetic abnormalities, Clinical decision...

...to comprehensively classify the GSK3 regulated proteome in metabolic tissues. However, the majority of the known targets control cell proliferation... Learn about: Human CLL, Chronic lymphocytic...

...takes an interdisciplinary approach, which will be facilitated by Dr Kang’s expertise in in vivo insulin resistance physiology and Professor Lang...

...and so will be immediately translatable into clinical practice. There is the opportunity to learn in vivo techniques and to be part of a laboratory committed... Learn about: Diabetes Clinical Care, Diabetes Nutrition, Severe hypoglycaemia...

...that was originally developed to screen compound libraries to identify potential contraceptive agents. However, in this project we will be studying... Learn about: Phenotypic Screening, Drug Discovery...

...as sulfasalazine consists of fused 5-aminosalicyclic acid and sulfapyridine moieties, either or both of which could in principle contribute towards...

...clinical trials,as well as exploitation of state-of-the-art patient databases, provides the student with an outstanding platform to establish high-impact... Learn about: Human Disease, IT risk...

...Physical visits to Dundee and Edinburgh by the supervisors and the recruited student will help ensure the student gets clinical input (Esther... Learn about: Physical computing, Physical Education, Clinical PhD...

...head and neck and oesophageal SCCs, that is characterised by frequent NRF2 and KEAP1 mutations. We aim to use functional investigations of the NRF2 pathway... Learn about: Human solid...

...that early use of such agents will be essential necessitating robust identification of ‘high-risk’ SCC at diagnosis for stratification to receive adjuvant strategies... Learn about: IT risk...

...and at the National CJD Research & Surveillance Unit, University of Edinburgh (Dr Green, α-syn RT-QuIC). The blood and CSF cohorts will be shared between the two sites...

...levels of mTOR targets (such as p70 S6K and 4E-BP1), and markers of autophagy. We will also evaluate the effect of Nrf2 depletion (by siRNA)...

...and the role played by Nrf2 in attenuating these processes. The effects of Nrf2 will be explored by employing genetic and pharmacological up-regulation...

...phenotypes such as regional pain (headache, neck pain, back pain, etc), neuropathic pain and fibromyalgia The Chronic Pain Research Group in the school...