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Biological and Biomedical Sciences courses
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- Anatomy and Human Biology BSc (Hons)
- Anatomy and Human Biology MBiol
- Biochemistry BSc (Hons)
- Biochemistry MBiol
- Biological Sciences (with a Foundation Year) leading to BSc (Hons)
- Biological Sciences BSc (Hons)
- Biological Sciences MBiol
- Biomedical Sciences BSc (Hons)
- Biomedical Sciences MBiol
- Bioveterinary Science BSc (Hons)
- Bioveterinary Science MBiol
- Marine Biology BSc (Hons)
- Marine Biology with Oceanography BSc (Hons)
- Medicinal Chemistry with Pharmacology MChem
- Medicinal Chemistry with Pharmacology with a Year Abroad MChem
- Microbiology and Infection BSc (Hons)
- Microbiology and Infection MBiol
- Ocean Sciences BSc (Hons)
- Ocean Sciences MOSci
- Pharmacology BSc (Hons)
- Pharmacology MBiol
- Zoology BSc (Hons)
- Zoology MBiol
- Advanced Biological Sciences MRes
- Bioinformatics MSc
- Biomedical Engineering (Healthcare) MSc (Eng)
- Biomedical Engineering MSc (Eng)
- Biomedical Engineering with Management (Healthcare) MSc (Eng)
- Biomedical Engineering with Management MSc (Eng)
- Biomedical Sciences and Translational Medicine MRes
- Biotechnology MSc
- Cancer Biology and Therapy MSc
- Clinical Anatomy with Education PGCert
- Clinical Sciences MRes
- Emerging Infections and Pandemics MSc
- Infection and Immunity MSc
- Pharmacology and Toxicology MSc
- Biochemistry and Systems Biology (PhD’s by the department) MPhil / PhD
- Biological Sciences (Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour) MPhil / PhD
- Biological Sciences (Functional and Comparative Genomics) MPhil / PhD
- Biomedical Imaging and Biosensing MPhil / PhD / MD
- Biostatistics MPhil / PhD / MD
- Cancer Biology MPhil / PhD / MD
- Cell Biology MPhil / PhD / MD
- Cellular and Molecular Physiology MPhil / PhD / MD
- Critical Care MPhil / PhD / MD
- Dental Sciences MPhil / PhD
- Eye and Vision Sciences MPhil / PhD / MD
- Gastroenterology MPhil / PhD / MD
- Medical Microbiology MPhil / PhD / MD
- Musculoskeletal Biology MPhil / PhD / MD
- Neurobiology and Neurodegeneration MPhil / PhD / MD
- Ocular Oncology MPhil / PhD / MD
- Palliative Care MPhil / PhD / MD
- Pancreatology MPhil / PhD / MD
- Pathology MPhil / PhD / MD
- Pharmacology MPhil / PhD / MD
- Virology MPhil / PhD / MD
- A systems biology analysis of thioredoxin reductase inhibition to support discovery of a novel antifungal treatment
- A traits-based approach to predicting and mitigating the impacts of a devastating amphibian pathogen under climate change
- Ageing, epilepsy, and the microtubule cytoskeleton: a novel trio in brain research
- Application of OMICS to study the mechanism and impact of exercise and nutrition on the regulation of skeletal muscle mass, sarcopenia and frailty in older age and comorbidities (e.g., heart failure, dementia, COPD).
- Assessment of matrix metalloproteinase 9 inhibitor for the treatment of severe skin-blistering adverse drug reactions using in vitro and ex vivo skin models.
- Better diagnosis and intervention for sarcopenia and frailty, and multimorbidity (cardiovascular disease, heart failure, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)) utilizing metabolomic.
- Bioengineering a mucoadhesive composite for the delivery of chemotherapy to treat eye cancer
- Cardiovascular function around the clock: harnessing protective circadian mechanisms towards smarter design of novel retinoid therapies and lifestyle interventions
- Combining genome-scale metabolic models and multi-omics data for a system level understanding of bacteria
- Community approaches to preventing mosquito-borne viruses
- Community impacts of microbial inoculants on plant interactions with beneficial and pathogenic fungi
- DETECTIVE: Deciphering the molecular pathophysiology of CNO towards individualized treatment
- Deploying bioinformatic and molecular ecology approaches to determine the diversity and significance of arthropod parasites and partners
- Designing Early Detection AI Diagnostic Tools for Age-related Macular Degeneration
- Determining the biocompatibility of, novel, nano-silica coated surfaces on oral and gastrointestinal immune barriers
- Determining the role of mitochondrial DNA variation in hepatic pathways and its impact on physiology, pharmacology and toxicology: a combined in vitro and bioinformatic approach.
- Digital twins of clotting and lysis for precision medicine
- Do soil mobile genetic elements mitigate the impacts of climate change in natural ecosystems?
- Ecological and evolutionary consequences of nanoplastic pollution in the water flea, Daphnia magna
- Engineering more water-use efficient crops: functional genomics of CO2 fixation during Crassulacean acid metabolism
- Evaluation of novel therapeutics for the treatment of severe skin blistering adverse drug reactions.
- Evolutionary adaptation to climate change in native grasslands: genetic basis and ecological consequences
- Explaining the male fertility gap at high temperatures
- Exploring how complex glycans shape the human gut microbiota and its interaction with the host
- Fishing in hot water: will climate change alter the ecological effects of bottom trawling?
- Genomics of adaptation to environmental change in British Lepidoptera
- Hatching an egg-cellent plan: investigating vibrationally and chemically-cued hatching and development of marine invertebrate eggs in relation to natural and anthropogenic variation
- Hepatic Models to personalise cancer chemotherapy
- How do fish affect greenhouse gas emissions from small waterbodies?
- How does personality and environmental change affect pace-of-life in Arctic seabirds
- How quickly can agri-environment schemes lead to nature recovery?
- Imaging Plankton Dynamics in a Changing Arctic
- Impact of livestock and tourism on African savannah herbivores: long-term patterns and their causes
- Improving Photosynthetic Efficiency - Engineering and Evolution of Light-Harvesting Complexes via Synthetic Biology
- Improving chemical and immunological assessment to drive safer development of the new breed of drugs: PROTACs.
- Improving core outcome set uptake in trials
- Interaction between innate immune activation and endothelial cells, linked to adverse cardiovascular events
- Investigating synthetic teixobactins to tackle Multi-Drug Resistant MRSA Keratitis
- Investigating the axial underpinnings of mammalian locomotor and ecological diversity
- Investigating the role of Golga3 cleavage during SARS-CoV-2 infection
- Investigating the role of ethnicity and inflammation in intramural hematoma to understand disease progression and guide future treatment avenues
- Lateral Flow Test Development for Small Molecules
- Linking genomic diversity to symbiotic phenotypes in Wolbachia
- Matrix driven reprogramming of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) metabolism.
- Mechanisms controlling gene expression in hypoxia and inflammation
- Modelling non-standard longitudinal outcomes using fast Bayesian inference.
- Modelling the effect of biochar amendment on barley soil microbiomes
- Molecular characterisation of a novel transporter for the atypical antipsychotic clozapine
- Molecular mechanisms underlying age-related repair deficiencies of axonal microtubules: is EB1 phosphorylation the key?
- Multi-decadal perspectives on fish size distributions: understanding the role of environmental and management drivers in the UK fisheries
- Network-based predictive modelling of cardiovascular disease risk
- Niemann-Pick type C (NPC) disease: full characterization of pH on megamitochondria engulfing lysosome (MMEL) under hypoxia.
- Personalising cancer treatment with tumour evolution modelling using AI-based genomics biomarkers and PK/PD
- Population structure of liver fluke (Fasciola hepatica) in wild and domestic hosts
- Predicting and mitigating impacts of environmental change; evaluating barriers to zoonotic pathogen spillover
- Protecting cells from mechanical stress: A novel role of cell-surface receptor LRP1 in extracellular matrix- nuclei communication.
- Protecting speed or size? Impacts of warming on animal life histories
- Seeking improved outcomes in pancreatic cancer: Applying multi-omic data analysis approaches to explore the biology underpinning pancreatic cancer-related diabetes
- Sniffing for Answers: Rapid Profiling and Classification of Volatile Organic Compounds
- Spatial cognition in wide-ranging seabirds
- Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
- Sustainability & Shelter – a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the complex combination of benefits hedges provide
- THROMB-AI: Computational risk stratification of thrombus formation and lysis in post-stroke patients
- The INO80 chromatin remodeler in oncogenic transcription and replication stress: mechanism and functional implications in acute myeloid leukemia.
- The benefits of sociability in group-living small mammals
- The development and application of metabolomics tools to study human metabolism in health and disease
- The effect of free radicals on the pathogenesis of Alkaptonuria
- The immunobiology of parasitic nematode infection in wild rodents
- The importance of diatom biodiversity in the response of Southern Ocean ecosystems and biogeochemistry to climate change
- The power of fats in Arctic food webs and carbon sequestration
- Therapeutics for the next pandemic
- Translating protection of cell-surface receptor LRP1 into potential disease-modifying therapies for osteoarthritis.
- Understanding how uveal melanoma cells render themselves invisible to- and manipulate the immune system to survive within the eye and liver.
- Understanding thrombotic events in atrial fibrillation: how do neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs), cell-free histones and DNA contribute to poor outcomes
- Understanding why cardiovascular complications are the number one cause of death in patients with End-Stage Kidney Disease
- Unearthing the impacts of invasive plants on soil microbial communities
- Using Deep Learning-based tools to better understand the interactions of viral proteins with host cells
- Using single cell transcriptomic and blood proteomic data to understand how pancreatic cancer causes diabetes and to find ways to detect the cancer earlier.
- Why do cancers cells re-express meiotic SYCP1 protein?
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