Current Postgraduate Opportunities in the Pathology Department, UOC
We welcome enquiries from prospective Postgraduate Students. Scholarship funding for postgraduate study may be available depending on academic merit.
Prospective students are encouraged to directly contact potential supervisors.
The Department has a number of potential topics on offer for a range of postgraduate qualifications.
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- Radical reactions with superoxide.
- The role of free radicals and chlorine bleach in inflammatory diseases and host defence
- The enzymology of peroxidases
- Identification of biomarkers of hypochlorous acid
| Professor Tony Kettle |
- Infammatory oxidants and cell and tissue injury
- Effects of white cell-derived oxidants on cell signaling responses
- Regulation of transciption factors and gene expression by oxidant stress
- The regulation of neutrophils apoptosis and resolution of inflammation
- The role of vitamin C in the regulation of the hypoxic response - Effect on cancer cell survival
- The hypoxic response and neutrophil apoptosis
- Hypoxia inducible factor-1 and cancer survival after chemotherapy
| Professor Margreet Vissers |
- Oxidative stress and redox signalling in cells
- Apoptosis regulation
- Anticancer and anti-inflammatory properties of isothiocyanates
- Mitochondria
| Associate Professor Mark Hampton |
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- The impact of genetic variability on responses to drugs
- Pharmacogenomics of antidepressants
- Genetics of complex traits
| Professor Martin Kennedy |
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- Gas mediators in inflammation
- Neurogenic inflammation in acute pancreatitis, sepsis, and burns
- Chemokines in acute pancreatitis, sepsis, and burns
- Apoptosis of pancreatic acinar cells
| Professor Madhav Bhatia |
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Coagulation and Vascular Disease
Background: molecular, biochemisry, genetics.
Contact: Professor Peter George
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Infectious Diseases, Microbiology
For topics and information, contact:
Professor Steve Chambers or Professor David Murdoch
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- Vitamin C in cancer
- Cancer gene therapy
- Hypoxia, HIF-1 and tumour angiogenesis
- Obesity-related cancers
- Coagulation resulting from solid tumours
- Inflammation and cancer
- Genetic variation and cancer development
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Background: cancer, cell biology, molecular biology, chemotherapy, genomics, genetics
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- Genetic and acquired abnormalities of blood proteins
- Protein structure, function and disease
- Fibrinogen variation and disease; bleeding, thrombosis, hepatitis and renal failure
- Amyloidosis; recombinant expression of human amyloid proteins in yeast
| Professor Steve Brennan |
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