Non-clinician DPhil Studentships
The CRUK Oxford Centre non-clincian DPhil Studentships have been awarded to academically excellent students with the best proven and future potential since 2011. On average, five Prize Studentships are awarded each year and the Centre consistently seeks to leverage against other scholarships and awards to maximise the impact of our funding.
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 students:
Jan Brauner, AIMS CDT
- Advancing safe and robust artificial intelligence to benefit cancer patients world-wide.
Chee Kin Then, Department of Oncology
- DNA damage signalling and repair factors in bladder cancer to develop new radiotherapy-based treatments
- Supervisor: Anne Kiltie
Cornelius Emde, Big Data Institute
- Health Data Science CDT
George Atkinson, SABS CDT
- Determining hypoxia regions and behaviour based on vessel network geometry
- Supervisor: Helen Byrne and Philip Maini
Giulia Celora , SABS CDT
- Effect of cycling hypoxia on tumour and response to therapies
- Supervisor: Helen Byrne and Philip Maini
Michael Selby, Department of Chemistry
- Theory and Modelling in Chemical Sciences (TMCS) CDT
Natalia Garcia-Martin, Department of Statistics
- Oxford-Warwick Statistics Programme (OxWaSP) CDT
Felix Jackson, Department of Statistics
- Systems Approaches to Biomedical Science (SABS) DTC
Rhydian Windsor, Department of Engineering
- Autonomous and Intelligent Machine Systems (AIMS) CDT
Chung Chau, Department of Engineering
- Synthetic Biology (SynBio) CDT
Vineethkrishna Chandrasekar, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
- Identifying new immunomodulatory factors as potential drug targets for cancer therapy
- Supervisors: Prof. Benoit van den Eynde, Prof. Sebastian Nijman
Ruichong Ma, Radcliffe Department of Medicine
- A dissection of the immune environment in glioblastoma
- Supervisors: Prof. Graham Ogg, Dr Puneet Plaha
Xanita Saayman, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology
- Investigating the role of homologous recombination in health and disease
- Supervisor: Prof. Fumiko Esahi
Biao Ma, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
- Mechanisms governing ubiquitin signalling in inflammation
- Supervisor: Mads Gyrd-Hansen
Sylvana Hassanieh, Wellcome Trust Centre for Humn Genetics
- DNA double-strand break repair in tumour suppression and oncogenesis
- Supervisor: Dr Ross Chapman
Axel Almet, Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology
- The Role of Stromal Cells in the Healthy and Diseased Gut
- Supervisors: Prof Philip Maini, Prof Alison Simmons, Prof Helen Byrne
Andrew Dhawan, Department of Oncology
- Deciphering the hypoxia transcriptome in cancer using next generation sequencing
- Supervisors: Dr Francesca Buffa, Prof Adrian Harris
Yun Feng, Nuffield Department of Medicine
- Integrative cancer genomics for a next generation sequencing enabled clinic
- Supervisors: Prof Chris Yau, Prof Ian Tomlinson
Wenjun Huang, Nuffield Department of Medicine
- The function of DNA modifications in cancer
- Supervisors: Prof Skirmantas Kriaucionis, Prof Colin Goding
Zeynep Kaya, Department of Oncology
- The role of cofactor JMY in cancer
- Supervisors: Prof Nick La Thangue, Dr Amanda Coutts
Dharamveer Tatwavedi, Radcliffe Department of Medicine
- CRISPR-Cas9-based modelling of the myelodysplastic syndromes
- Supervisors: Prof Jacqueline Boultwood, Dr Andrea Pellagatti, Dr Hamid Dolatshad
Ulku Uzun, Department of Biochemistry
- Pervasive transcription as a novel gene regulatory mechanism in health and disease
- Supervisor: Prof Jane Mellor
Siu Shing Wong, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
- Crosstalk between the tumour suppressor p53 and inflammation pathways
- Supervisor: Prof Xin Lu
Eleanor Scott, Department of Oncology
- Exploiting pre-existing CD8 T cell responses to target cancer cells
- Supervisors: Prof Len Seymour
Javian Malcolm, Department of Oncology
- A radiobiologically based model for combining external beam (EBRT) and molecularly targeted radiotherapy (mTRT)
- Supervisors: Prof Kate Vallis
Alba Rodriguez Meira, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine
- Single cell analysis of coding and non-coding RNAs during normal and malignant haematopoiesis
- Supervisors: Prof Adam Mead
Sarah Faulkner, Department of Chemistry
- Synthetic proteins as probes of oncological disease and disease mechanism
- Supervisors: Prof Ben Davis, Prof Ruth Muschel
James Coates, Department of Oncology
- Investigating the effects of radiosensitising drugs when combined with particle radiation
- Supervisors: Dr Geoff Higgins & Professor Gillies Mckenna
Caillan Crowe-McAuliffe, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology
- Regulation of gene expression by transcriptional gene silencing in human cells
- Supervisor: Professor Monika Gullerova
Nadiya Ishnavzarova, Department of Biochemistry
- Investigating the molecular mechanisms that prevent pathology during DNA replication termination
- Supervisor: Professor Matthew Whitby
Kristie McCormick , Department of Physiology, Genetics and Anatomy
- Regulation of exosome secretion by the endolysosomal, nutrient-dependent mTORC1 signalling in cancer cells
- Supervisors: Dr Deborah Goberdhan, Dr Clive Wilson, Professor Adrian Harris
Arseniy Yuzhalin, CRUK/MRC Institute for Radiation Oncology
- Mechanisms of metastasis- investigation of extracellular matrix proteome in liver metastasis
- Supervisor: Professor Ruth Muschel
Alex Diwa, Division of Structural Biology, Nuffield Department of Medicine
- Structural biology of cell surface receptors
- Supervisor: Professor Yvonne Jones
Delia Koennig, CRUK/MRC Institute for Radiation Oncology
- Investigation of RASSF1 and hippo pathway signalling in normal and malignant brain stem cells
- Supervisor: Dr Eric O’Neill
Fanny Franchini, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences
- Investigation of the role of regulatory T cells in tissue repair processes occurring during inflammation and colorectal cancer
- Supervisor: Professor Fiona Powrie
Hannah Baddock, Department of Oncology
- Mechanism of replication-coupled DNA interstrand cross-link repair
- Supervisor: Dr Peter McHugh
Jessica Goodchild, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology
- Alternative polyadenylation and cancer development
- Supervisor: Professor Chris Norbury
Johannes Walker, Department of Chemistry
- Pyridine containing thiopeptide natural products as leads for potent anti-tumour agents
- Supervisor: Professor Timothy J. Donohoe
Giacomo Pirovano, Department of Oncology
- What is the role of DNA Polymerase theta in cancer?
- Supervisors: Professor Gillies McKenna & Dr Thomas Ashton
Catherine Coffey, Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health
- Role of screening and other factors on cervical cancer incidence
- Supervisor: Professor Dame Valerie Beral
Erin Shepherd, Department of Chemistry
- Studies on P-glycoprotein inhibitors
- Supervisor: Professor Jonathan Burton
Hans Friedrichsen, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Nuffield Department of Medicine
- Epigenetic inheritance in cancer stem cells and their normal counterparts
- Supervisor: Professor Colin Goding
Iosifina Foskolou, CRUK/MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology
- Role of homologous recombination activities in telomere replication
- Supervisor: Dr Madalena Tarsounas
Johanna Ramroth, Clinical Trials Service Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health
- Survival, morbidity and mortality after cancer cure
- Supervisor: Professor Sarah Darby
Serena Lucotti, CRUK/MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology
- Metastasis mechanisms and novel therapeutic targets for cancer
- Supervisor: Professor Ruth Muschel
Laura Barker, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine
- Increased frequency of IL-10 secreting neutrophils in cancer patients
- Supervisor: Professor Vincenzo Cerundolo and Professor Mark Middleton
James Egleton, Department of Chemistry
- Small Molecule Colorimetric Probes for Specific Protein Detection
- Supervisor: Dr Angela Russell
Fatemeh Ghari, Department of Oncology
- Interplay between histone deacetylase and proteasome activity: a new mechanism for tumour cell killing
- Supervisor: Professor Nick La Thangue