Biomedical and Life Sciences

Postgraduate students are directly involved in the mainstream research of the division. Postgraduates receive specialised laboratory/field training and in addition are encouraged to take part in a range of courses organised by the University, such as teaching skills, statistical methods, computing and languages. They are encouraged to attend and present lectures and posters at major scientific conferences both within the UK and overseas. Recently students have attended conferences in the USA and Australia as well as various European countries.

Entry Requirements

Applicants should hold at least an upper second class honours degree, or its equivalent, in an appropriate subject.

If you are an Overseas Applicant, the deadline for submitting your application to study on our postgraduate programmes commencing in October 2012 in the Faculty of Health and Medicine, is Wednesday 15 August 2012, as from this date there will be insufficient time remaining before the start of the programme for us to be able to make a decision in time for you to apply for and obtain a Visa.

Applications from overseas candidates for study on postgraduate programmes with later or flexible start dates will continue to be accepted.

Funding

Research Councils, Lancaster University Doctoral Fellowships and charities. Specific PhD projects are advertised below.

PhD projects currently available

Stress-inducible transcription factors in the UVA dose rate effect observed in human skin cells

The potential role of copper in type 2 diabetes mellitus

The role of the decorin-dermatopontin complex in the extracellular matrix of cartilage

Growing an artificial cornea from adult stem cells

Signal transduction pathways in the trypanosome flagellum

Diagnosis of early osteoarthritis

Eukaryotic DNA damage responses: Double strand break repair and chromatin structure

Trypanosome morphogenesis and pathogenicity

Physiological basis of low frequency oscillations in endothelial cells

Elucidating the molecular mechanisms by which the Alzheimer's disease amyloid precursor protein regulates cellular copper efflux in the aging brain

Cellular responses to DNA damage, studies on the functional organization of the S phase checkpoint proteins at sites of stalled DNA replication

Ion channel function in fungal biology

Drosophila as a model system to study the effects of glucose on learning and memory

Cannabinoid interactions with gut microbiota and permeability function

Contacts

For further details on PhD research projects, please contact the relevant project supervisor direct.

Dr Paul McKean, Postgraduate Admissions Tutor, Division of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ.
E-mail:- shm-pg-admissions@lancaster.ac.uk
Phone:- 01524 592615