Research Projects available to students who have their own source of funding

Dr N. Barlev - Role of lysine methylation/de-methylation in regulation of p53-dependent microRNA expression in response to genotoxic stress

Prof F. Beck - Genetic regulation of mammalian development

Prof M.D Carr - Molecular Basis of tuberculosis pathogenesis

Prof M.D Carr - Molecular basis of the control of eukaryotic gene expression

Prof M.D Carr - Structure-based drug design

Dr S. Cowley – Transcriptional Control of Stem Cell Differentiation

Prof I. C. Eperon - Analysis of mechanisms of pre-mRNA splicing by single molecule fluorescence

Prof I. C. Eperon - Mechanisms of splice site selection

Prof I. C. Eperon - Correcting splicing: development of therapies for cancer based on targeted oligonucleotide enhancers of splicing

Professor A. Fry - Identifying new cell division regulators for cancer drug development

Dr M L Leyland - Structure and function of MS4A proteins

Dr S. Macip - New modulators, effectors and functions of the p53 tumour suppressor pathway in cancer

Dr O V Makarova - Splicing and Disease

Dr P. C. E. Moody - Structure and function of core metabolic enzymes in enteric pathogens.

Prof C. Pritchard - Investigation of the role of the ^V600EBRaf oncogene in colorectal cancer and cell signalling proteins.

Dr R. Schmid  - Bioinformatics and Molecular Modelling

Dr S. Shackleton - Nuclear architecture and its role in human disease

Dr K Tanaka - Signalling mechanism that coordinate meiotic differentiation - RAS and cell cycle regulators-