Table of Currently Funded PhD Studentships
The Anatomical Society supports cutting edge modern research through a series of fully funded research studentships. Each studentship is focused on a specific project associated with anatomical science. Studentships are awarded on a competitive basis annually and only members of the Society can apply. Projects that are currently funded are shown in the table below. Click on any of the project titles below for more information.
Research Studentships effective at 1st October 2021
| INSTITUTION | Supervisor(s) | Research Student | Year | Project Title | Research Studentship Award date
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| University of Liverpool | Dr Simon Keller Co-Supervisors Dr Thomas Butts Dr Antonella Macerollo Mr Jibril Osman Farah | Ms Bethany Facer | 1st | In-vivo dissection of white matter pathways in Parkinson's disease: tracking progressive degeneration and biomarkers of treatment | Awarded November 2020 To start October 2021 To end 30.09.24 |
| Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) | Dr Oran Kennedy | Mr Meric Goker | 1st | Advanced Synovial Microneedle Technology for Drug Delivery to Prevent Post Traumatic Osteoarthritis | Awarded November 2020
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| King’s College London | Dr Isabelle Miletich Co-Supervisor- Professor Karen Liu | TBA | 1st year Deferred | Molecular mechanisms of normal parotid gland development and variations | Awarded November 2020
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| University of Cambridge | Dr Katherine Hughes Co-Supervisor – Professor Clare Bryant | Mr Benjamin Davies | 1st | Myoepithelial and immune cell dynamics in the mammary terminal duct lobular unit during postnatal development | Awarded November 2020
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| University of Cambridge | Dr Cecilia Brassett Co-Supervisor Professor Manohar Bance | Dr Chloe Swords | 2nd | Mapping the variability in the microanatomy of the cochlea and its impact on cochlear function and on cochlea implant electrical stimulation spread in the auditory nerve | Awarded November 2019
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| Royal Veterinary College, London | Dr Imelda McGonnell Co-Supervisor – Dr Claire Russell | Ms Emily Young | 2nd | Getting wires crossed: The role of the the microbiome in lateral line development | Awarded November 2019
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| University of Oxford | Professor Zoltán Molnár Co-Supervisor – Dr Anna Hoerder-Suabedissen | Miss Florina Szabó | 2nd | Role of calcium dependent neurotransmission in selected populations of cortical projection neurons in cortical development | Awarded November 2019
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| Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin | Professor Fergal O’Brien Co-Supervisor - Dr Adrian Dervan | Mr Cian O’Connor | 2nd | Development of biomimetic 3-dimensional spinal cord model system to study inflammation-mediated astrogliosis | Awarded November 2019
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| King’s College London | Professor Anthony Graham Co-Supervisor – Dr Esther Bell | Ms Rachel Bedwin | 3rd year deferred | Signalling pathways controlling the generation of the pharyngeal arches | Awarded November 2018
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| King’s College London | Professor Jeremy Green Co-Supervisor – Professor Martyn Cobourne | Ms Claire Piper | 3rd | Morphogenesis of the Molar Tooth | Awarded November 2018 Revised end date 31.03.23
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| Aberdeen University Aberdeen Royal Infirmary | Regius Professor Simon H. Parson Co-Supervisor – Dr Paul Brown | Ms Hazel Allardyce | 3rd | Is the extensive non-neuronal pathology reported in mouse models of Spinal Muscular Atrophy seen in post-mortem tissue from patients? A detailed morphological assessment | Awarded November 2018
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| Birmingham University Manchester University | Professor Susannah Thorpe Co-Supervisor – Professor William Sellers | Ms Charlotte King | 3rd | Human Origins and the Ecomorphology of Tree Climbing | Awarded November 2018
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| University College London | Professor Claudio Stern | Mr Adam Moverley | 2nd | Dynamics of cell behaviour during somite formation | Awarded November 2017
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| University of Cambridge | Dr Clare Baker | Mr Alexander Campbell | 4th | Identifying novel molecular mechanisms underlying lateral line sense organ development using an unbiased, comparative approach | Awarded November 2017
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| Imperial College, London. UCD from December 2020 University of Bristol | Professor Niamh Nowlan Co-Supervisor – Dr Chrissy Hammond | Ms Josépha Godivier | 4th | How do bones acquire their shapes? Establishing a paradigm for the biology and mechanobiology of morphogenesis of synovial joints | Awarded November 2017
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| Royal Veterinary College, London University of Manchester | Professor Andrew Pitsillides Co-Supervisor – Professor Peter Lee | Ms Lucinda Evans | 4th | How does joint anatomy avoid cracking under pressure? | Awarded November 2017
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| UCL Institute of Child Health | Professor Andrew Copp Co-supervisor Prof Nick Greene | Mr Evangelos Papastergios | 2nd | Role of integrin cell-surface receptors in neurulation and neural tube defects | Awarded November 2016
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