PhD in Biomarkers for Cerebral Small Vessel Disease and Vascular Cognitive Impairment University of Cambridge in United Kingdom

Duke University School of Medicine is hiring a Postdoctoral Associate in the Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, United States . The postdoctoral project focuses on inherited metabolic disorders , especially glycogen storage diseases (GSDs) and GSD type II (Pompe disease) . Research topics include the role of the immune system, neurological manifestations of Pompe disease, evaluation of clinical treatment responses,...

PhD studentship at Aston University in Birmingham, United Kingdom, focused on how radiotherapy affects brain structure and function in children with brain tumours, and how these changes relate to cognition. The project combines longitudinal MRI data from the Imaging of Tumours (IOT) study with new data collected using Optically Pumped Magnetometer Magnetoencephalography (OPM-MEG). The research will compare children who received radiotherapy with those who did not, with the aim of identifying tre...

PhD opportunity at the University of Cambridge in Mathematical Modelling of Neurodegenerative Tauopathies – from systems to clinical impact. This project sits in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences and is supervised by Dr T Rittman . It builds on in silico mathematical models of neurodegenerative disorders associated with the tau protein and uses real-world cohort data from people with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy , Corticobasal Syndrome , and Frontotemporal Dementia . The research combin...

Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) is advertising a funded 3.5-year PhD studentship in the Department of Primary Care and Public Health , jointly funded by NIHR ARC Kent, Surrey and Sussex . The project asks whether linked data can help more women access NHS cancer screening . The research will investigate why some women are less likely to take up screening, combining linked health and care data , an evidence review , and qualitative research to better understand health inequalities and i...

PhD opportunity at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences on Fluid Biomarkers of Inflammation in Frontotemporal Dementia . This project focuses on neuroscience , neurology , neuroinflammation , frontotemporal dementia , and related neurodegenerative disorders, with additional relevance to Alzheimer’s disease , biomarkers , proteomics , neuroimaging , and clinical data analysis. The research aims to characterise inflammation signatures in blood and CSF from people...