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Pathways to improved polyene antimicrobial agents (PIPA)
Natural products are molecules made by plants and microorganisms that have inspired the development of many important pharmaceuticals that we rely on today. For example, soil bacte...
A Novel Artificial Intelligence Powered Neuroimaging Biomarker for Chronic Pain.
SCALE OF THE PROBLEM: Chronic pain is a major unmet global health challenge. One in ten adults over the age of 30 suffers from chronic nerve pain (neuropathic pain, NeuP) that aris...
Investigating how hunger shapes olfactory decision-making in insects
Many insect pests that destroy crops or transmit diseases to millions of people each year rely on their sense of smell to navigate toward their plant or human hosts. As they naviga...
Louis Stokes B2B Alliance: Puget Sound B2B Alliance (PSA)
A diverse scientific, technical, engineering, and math (STEM) workforce not only unlocks the potential for innovation through the utilization of diverse backgrounds, experiences, a...
CONTAIN: CONtact Tracing, Infection and Transmission: An INterdisciplinary approach
The COVID-19 pandemic underlined the continuing threat from emerging novel zoonotic diseases, and the need for better national and global preparedness. Interpersonal contact, and c...
UMTaste: Understanding the mechanisms by which umami taste influences salty and bitter taste to enable umami to drive salt reduction and improvement i
The UK has been prioritising salt reduction since 2004 in response to the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) 2003 report on salt and health. In addition, the Nationa...
Digital Radiographer Leaders: Exploring leadership roles and competencies for radiographers to lead safe and effective AI digital transformation
Background: Diagnostic radiographers use cutting edge technology to produce medical diagnostic images such as x-rays or scans. Therapeutic radiographers use complex equipment to tr...
3D bioprinted light responsive hydrogel materials for cartilage tissue analogues
Articular cartilage defects are a significant and health problem for millions worldwide, especially in an aging population. Effective cartilage regeneration remains elusive. A prom...
mRNA selection for translation: beyond the canonical view
A central tenet of biology is that information found in the DNA of genes is converted into a messenger RNA molecule (mRNA), which is then translated into a chain of amino acids cal...
Virtual Reality Toolkit for Diabetes
This PhD will develop a novel Virtual Reality (VR) toolkit for diabetes clinicians and patients. We conducted a thorough literature review on Virtual Reality for Diabetes as found...
Developing an Art-Based Public Engagement and Advocacy Model for Transforming Social Norms on Gender-Based Violence in the Andean Region (ARTS-CHANGE)
ARTS-CHANGE reviews the existing evidence on gender based violence (GBV), learns from the experiences of the victims across the gender spectrum, co-develops new research, and co-cr...
What can self-connected neurons do? A unifying theory of autaptic neural function in invertebrates and mammals
The neuron is the fundamental building block in the nervous systems of all animal species, from C. elegans with its 302 neurons, to humans with their highly evolved cortex alone co...
Development and validation of innovative, near real-time analytical tools to enable mitigation of contamination within cleanrooms of the UK spacecraft
The STFC Industrial CASE (Cooperative Awards in Science and Technology) studentship provides a 3.5-year stipend that allows the student to spend periods of time on placement at...
Targeting the autophagy-NAD axis in rare early-onset neurodegenerative diseases
Nervous system disorders include common diseases like dementia, and rare genetic disorders, often childhood-onset. In the UK, they affect >944,000 people, forecasted to increase...
Closed-loop Optimisation of Home and Personal Care Formulations
Studentship to work on a research project at University of Sheffield in collaboration with our industrial partner - Unilever (https://www.unilever.co.uk/), a world-leading company...
My Other Friend: An Ecopoetic Exploration of Friendship's Potential in the More-Than-Human Cit
Research Abstract This project examines how friendship functions in the 'more-than-human' city and how poetic practice can contribute to this, focusing on the city of Manch...
Developing novel microfluidic platforms for antibiotic discovery.
This project will identify new molecules with antibiotic activity against multi-drug resistant bacterial pathogens. This is important and timely considering that antimicrobial resi...
Targeting specific brain GLP-1 receptors to treat obesity
Obesity has become one of the key medical and economic challenges because of its impact on health, cardiovascular disease and cancer, and its prevalence in the population. The prim...
Molecular, Biophysical and Regulatory Characterisation of Ion Transport Pathways in the Human Immortalised Apocrine Gland Secretory Cell Line, ASG5
In humans, sweat is produced by two different sweat glands: the eccrine glands which help cool the body by secreting a hypotonic salty fluid directly onto the skin surface (thermor...
Spatiotemporal imaging of neuronal and glial signals in the mammalian master circadian clock at multiple timescales
The mammalian master circadian clock in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) orchestrates circadian rhythms in physiology and behaviour to maintain health and well-being. The SCN gene...