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We have a large community of academic, research and support staff and postgraduate students, and an annual turnover of approximately £8 million support for research. Our research is grouped into the following four themes: Immune Regulation; Inflammation and Inflammatory Disease; Stem Cell Biology and Gene Regulation; and Bacterial Infections, Pathogenesis and Antibiotic Resistance.
Type of Course: Doctoral research
Study Options: Full time, part time
Duration: PhD – 3 years full-time, 6 years part-time; MSc by Research – 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time; MD – 2 years minimum part-time
Start date: Research degrees may start at any time of the year, though for most this will be September
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We have a large community of academic, research and support staff and postgraduate students, and an annual turnover of approximately £8 million support for research
Our research is themed as follows:
Standard fees apply, although bench fees are levied for research degrees according to the nature of the project. Learn more about fees and funding Scholarships and studentships Funding is available from major sponsors including MRC, BBSRC, the Wellcome Trust and local endowments. For postgraduate studentships in Immunity and Infection, please contact the School directly. For general scholarship enquiries email sfo@contacts.bham.ac.uk
International students can often gain funding through overseas research scholarships, Commonwealth scholarships or their home government.
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Thymocyte/stromal cell interactions in T cell development and selection
Professor Graham Anderson Professor Eric Jenkinson Dr William Jenkinson Dr Nick Jones
Chemokine regulation of immune responses
Professor Antal Rot
T cell differentiation and regulation in autoimmune diabetes
Dr Lucy Walker
Molecular and cellular biology of T cell regulation
Professor Dave Sansom
Immune regulation for bacterial infection
Professor Adam Cunningham Dr Calman MacLennan Dr David Lammas
Clinical and diagnostic immunology
Professor Mark Drayson Dr Mark Cobbold Dr Sylvie Freeman
Inflammatory liver disease
Professor David Adams Dr Patricia Lalor Dr Simon Afford Dr Gideon Hirshfield Dr Ye Oo Dr Shishir Shetty Dr Zania Stamataki
Hepatitis C immunobiology
Professor Jane McKeating Dr Peter Balfe
Inflammatory joint disease
Professor Chris Buckley Professor Andy Clark Dr Steve Young Dr Karim Raza Dr Dagmar Scheel Toellner Dr Francesca Barone Dr Andrew Filer Dr Ben Fisher Dr Helen McGettrick Dr Paolo de Pablo
Immunesenescence and chronic inflammation
Professor Janet Lord Systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases – systemic lupus erythematosus
Dr Caroline Gordon Mechanisms of dysregulated neutrophil and lymphocyte function during pathogenesis of autoimmune renal disease, particularly vasculitis
Professor Lorraine Harper Dr Matt Morgan The involvement of lymphocytes, cytokines and chemokines in uveitis (inflammatory eye disease)
Professor Philip Murray Infectious and immune-mediated ocular surface diseases
Miss Saaeha Rauz Inflammation at sites of immune privilege; the role of pathogenic and regulatory T cells
Dr S John Curnow Dr Graham Wallace
Transcriptional regulation of adult and embryonic stem cells in health and disease
Professor Jon Frampton Dr Padma-Sheela Jayaraman Dr Paloma Garcia Stem cells and liver disease
Dr Phil Newsome Epigenetic mechanisms of gene regulation Professor Peter Cockerill Dr Laura O'Neill Dr Karl Nightingale Chromatin remodelling and transcriptional regulation of Drosophila blood development
Dr Paul Badenhorst Control mechanisms in angiogenesis
Professor Roy Bicknell Dr Victoria Heath Regulation of haematopoietic cell differentiation
Dr Geoffrey Brown
Antimicrobial action and resistance
Professor Laura Piddock Professor Tim Mitchell Professor Peter Hawkey Professor Ian Henderson Dr Mark Webber Dr Vassiliy Bavro Immune responses to infection and vaccine development
Professor Adam Cunningham Dr Calman MacLennan Professor Ian Henderson Mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis
Professor Ian Henderson Professor Laura Piddock Nosocomial infections
Professor Peter Hawkey Professor Laura Piddock
Following graduation, Postgraduate Researchers in the College MDS gain employment in a variety of areas though with a majority continuing in research, mostly in Academia but also in the Health, Pharmaceutical, and Biotechnology sectors. Others pursue careers in Education, Publishing, Intellectual Property Protection, Technology Innovation, Business, and more besides.