
PhD programme started in October 2009. Two types of entry are available: 4 year PhDs incorporating a 9-month training course and a number of 3-year PhDs for those already holding an MSc or other professional qualifications or experience.
The projects with the best applicants will be awarded the funding. The funding is only available to applicants that meet the Non-UK Students criteria.
In most cases if you have the correct qualifications and access to your own funding, either from your home country or your own finances, your application to work with the supervisors listed in the research projects will be considered.
The research projects below are in competition for funding.
• Novel molecular interactions involved in the regulation of insulin signalling (with Dr Jürgen Müller & Professor Victor Zammit)
• Regulation of fuel selection by tissues through protein cellular compartmentalization (Professor Victor Zammit & Dr Jürgen Müller)
• Regulation of MAPK signalling by molecular scaffold proteins (with Dr Jürgen Müller)
• Regulation of MAPK signalling in Neurons (with Dr Jürgen Müller and Dr Sonia Correa)
• Developing pharmacological strategies for the treatment of dyslipidaemia and its consequences (Professor Victor Zammit & Dr Jürgen Müller)
• Structure and assembly of the carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1 enzyme: Toward therapies for heart disease (with Dr Ann Dixon, Chemistry and Professor Victor A Zammit
• Self-organisation of the Human Mitotic Spindle (with Dr Andrew McAinsh)
• Role of Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Inflammation, Insulin Resistance and Diabetes in Cultured Primary Human Adipocytes (with Dr. Gyanendra Tripathi and Dr. Philip McTernan)
• Control of cell polarity through coordination of actin and microtubule systems (with Dr Anne Straube)
• Surfing on the microtubule plus end: structure and dynamics of tip tracking (with Dr Anne Straube and Dr Carolyn Moores)
• Molecular Mechanism of Replication Termination (with Dr Jacob Dalgaard)
• Stabilization of stalled replication forks – for the prevention of cancer and ageing (with Dr Jacob Dalgaard)
• Mechanochemistry of single kinesin molecules by laser trapping (with Dr Nick Carter)