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