Clinical DPhil Studentships & Fellowships
The CRUK Oxford Centre Clinical DPhil Studentships and Fellowships act as a crucial training resource for medics seeking a career in cancer research and our aim is to build a future generation of translational research leaders.
We have a mailing list through which we distribute news and deadlines for events and opportunities applying for studentship positions. Please email cancercentre@oncology.ox.ac.uk with the “Prospective Student Mailing List” in the subject to be added and receive updates. More details on open calls can be found here.
Click on an image below to find out more about our current students:
Previous & Current Fellows
Max Van Essen, Department of Physiology Anatomy & Genetics
- Utilising human induced pluripotent stem cells to make cerebellar organoids and hope to exploit that method in order to make an innovative in vitro model of medulloblastoma
- Supervisor: Esther Becker
Rory Peters, Nuffield Department of Medicine
- Understanding the hepatic immune environment that may contribute to the development of hepatocellular carcinoma in advanced liver disease
- Supervisor: Ellie Barnes
Helen Tyrell, Kennedy Institute
- Defining interactions between the cytokine il-22 and oncogenic kras as a new therapeutic target in colorectal cancer
- Supervisor: Fiona Powrie
Jonathan Kwok, Nuffield Department of Medicine
- Development of Novel Cancer Vaccines to Harness Memory Inflation Driven by Adenoviral Vectors
- Supervisor: Paul Klenerman
Katherine English, Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism
- Efficacy of epigenetic inhibitors in exocrine and endocrine pancreatic cancers
- Supervisor: Raj Thakker
Tamsyn Clark, Oxford Institute of Biomedical Engineering
- Development of normothermically perfused human organs as preclinical models of pharmacokinetic response
- Prof Constantin Coussios
Karen Sayal, Department of Oncology
- Targeting PRMT5 as a Novel Strategy for Radiosensitisation in Non-Small Cell Lung cancer
- Prof Ester Hammond
Ashvina Segaran, Ludwig institute
- Nutrient supply and nucleotide metabolism in oestrogen receptor positive breast cancer
- Prof Skirmantas Kriaucionis
Nina Wietek, Nuffield Department of Women’s & Reproductive Health
- Development of novel fluorescence imaging techniques to identify and characterize serous tubal intraepithelial carcinomas (STICs)
- Dr Ahmed, Ahmed
Ben Harris, Department of Oncology
- Using functional genetics to assess the link between obesity and altered mitochondrial metabolism in breast cancer
- Dr Francesca Buffa, Dr Simon Lord
Rosalin Cooper, Department of Oncology
- Using genomics to dissect the interaction between host immunity and tumour biology: Identifying Cancer associated immune profiles and predicting therapeutic responses
- Dr Benjamin Fairfax, Prof Mark Middleton
Ruichong Ma, Radcliffe Department of Medicine
- A dissection of the immune environment in glioblastoma
- Prof Graham Ogg, Dr Puneet Plaha
John Mason, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics
- The pathophysiological role of the exosome switch in colorectal cancer growth and metastasis
- Prof Deborah Goberdhan, Mr Chris Cunningham
Nikolaos Sousos, Nuffield Division of Clinical Laboratory Services
- Tracking the origins of post-transplant myelofibrosis relapse at the single cell
- Prof Adam Mead & Dr Andrew Peniket
David Bruce, Department of Oncology & Nuffield Department of Medicine
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- Integrated genomic and functional characterisation of intra-tumour heterogeneity in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)
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- Dr Anna Schuh, Dr Samantha Knight
Jennifer Thomas, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research & Department of Oncology
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- Translational Control of Invasion in Melanoma
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- Prof Colin Goding, Dr Sarah Blagden
Victoria Woodcock, MRC Human Immunology Unit & Department of Oncology
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- Dissecting T cell responses to immunotherapy
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- Prof Mark Middleton, Prof Vincenzo Cerundolo
Daniel Stevens, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics
- Investigating the roles of the PAT‐mTORC1 axis and exosome signalling in prostate cancer growth and metastasis
- Dr Deborah Goberdhan, Dr Clive Wilson, Prof Freddie Hamdy
Laurent James Livermore, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
- Intra-operative and ex-vivo characterisation of gliomas with Raman spectroscopy and mass spectrometry
- Prof Claire Vallance, Prof Olaf Ansorge
Jessica Whitburn, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences
- The effects of metformin in prostate cancer progression and bone metastases
- Prof Claire Edwards, Prof Freddie Hamdy, Mr Prasanna Sooriakumaran
Nicholas Coupe, Department of Oncology
- Investigating the link between angiogenesis and BRAF status in melanoma
- Prof Mark Middleton, Dr Valentine Macaulay
Semira Sheikh, Department of Oncology & Oxford Universities Hospitals NHS Trust
- Histone deacetylase inhibitors in lymphoma: from molecular mechanisms to predictive biomarkers and personalised cancer medicine
- Professor Nicholas La Thangue & Dr Graham Collins
Michael White, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research & Department of Oncology
- Investigating the relationship between inflammation and ASPP/p53/p63 signalling in the development and prognosis of Barrett’s Oesophagus
- Professor Xin Lu & Professor Mark Middleton
Kezia Gaitskell, Clinical Epidemiology Unit & Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Risk factors for ovarian cancer by histological phenotype in the Million Women Study
- Professor Dame Valerie Beral and Professor Ahmed Ahmed
Paul Miller, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research & Department of Oncology
- Investigating the role of ASPP/p53 and Dll4/Notch cross talk in patient’s response to anti-VEGFR based therapy
- Professor Xin Lu, Dr Sarah De Val and Professor Adrian Harris
Ruth Clifford, Nuffield Division of Clinical Laboratory Sciences & Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Response Prediction in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia by Elucidating Genomic Aberrations using Whole Genome Analysis
- Dr Samantha Knight and Dr Anna Schuh
Lianne Castle, Department of Oncology & CRUK/MRC Institute for Radiation Oncology
- Targeting Rad18 in NSCLC to sensitise tumours to platinum drugs and defend against acquired drug resistance
- Dr Peter McHugh, Dr Geoff Higgins and Dr Denis Talbot
Alex Gordon-Weeks, CRUK/MRC Institute for Radiation Oncology
- Liver Metastasis: Host-Tumour Interactions
- Professor Ruth Muschel
Aaron Leiblich, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences
- The Drosophila Accessory Gland as a Novel Model for Prostate Cancer
- Professor Freddie Hamdy