2018 intake
2017 intake
2016 intake
2015 intake
2014 intake
![]() |
Sarah Aitken (Histopathology) “Investigating the interplay between CTCF haploinsufficiency and DNA stability using genomic and proteomic approaches” Supervisor: Dr Duncan Odom (CRUK) |
![]() |
Ciaran Hill (Neurosurgery) “Traumatic axonal injury and the role of neuroinflammation in progressive neurodegeneration” Supervisor: Prof David Menon (Anaesthesia) |
![]() |
Imran Noorani (Neurosurgery) “Genome-wide screening for co-operative driver genes and chemotherapeutic resistance genes of glioblastoma using transposon and CRISPR-cas9 mediated mutagenesis” Supervisor: Prof Allan Bradley (Sanger) |
![]() |
Johannes Reinhold (Cardiology) “Mitochondrial regulation of inflammation in atherosclerosis” Supervisor: Prof Martin Bennett (Cardiovascular Medicine) |
![]() |
Stephen Sammut (Oncology) “The circulating genomic landscape of early stage breast cancer” Supervisor: Prof Carlos Caldas (CRUK) |
![]() |
Kirsten Scott (Neurology) “The role of B lymphocytes in the development of Parkinson’s disease and its associated dementia” Supervisor: Prof Roger Barker (Brain Repair) |
![]() |
Michelle Toleman (Medical Microbiology) “A comparison of standard infection control practice, whole-genome sequencing and infection tracking software to optimise the detection of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission in health care facilities” Supervisor: Prof Sharon Peacock (Medicine)/Prof Julian Parkhill (Sanger) |
2013 intake
![]() |
Faisal Basheer (Haematology) “The role of EZH2 in the induction and maintenance of acute myeloid leukaemia” Supervisor: Brian Huntly (CIMR) |
![]() |
Ranna El Khairi (Paediatric Endocrinology) “Use of human pluripotent stem cells to model monogenic diabetes” Supervisor: Ludovic Vallier (Sanger) |
![]() |
Saad Idris (Haematology) “The role of the B cell receptor and downstream signalling pathways in Non Hodgkins Lymphoma” Supervisor: Klaus Okkenhaug (Babraham)/Paul Kellam (Sanger) |
![]() |
Wajid Jawaid (Paediatric Surgery) “Resolving early mesodermal fate decisions at the single cell level to identify differentiation pathways and novel regulators” Supervisor: Prof Bertie Gottgens (CIMR) |
![]() |
Simon Johnston (Medical Oncology) “Biological characterisation of FoxA1 regulatory factors” Supervisor: Jason Carroll (CRUK)/Ultan McDermott (Sanger) |
![]() |
Oliver Mytton (Public Health) “Environmental approaches to walking and cycling: interventions, mechanisms and health benefits” Supervisor: David Ogilvie (MRC Epidemiology Unit) |
![]() |
Mabel Teng (Medical Oncology) “The genetic landscape of circulating tumour cells and disseminated tumour cells in breast cancer” Supervisor: Peter Campbell/Thierry Voet (Sanger) |
2012 intake
![]() |
Zaeem Cader (Gastroenterology) “Characterizing the role of GPR35 in inflammatory bowel disease” Supervisor: Arthur Kaser (Dept of Medicine/Sanger) |
![]() |
Cristina Dias (Clinical Genetics) “Unravelling the BAFopathies: high throughput molecular phenotyping of models of BAF complex mutations associated with intellectual disability” Supervisor: Darren Logan (Sanger) |
![]() |
Wendy Jones (Clinical Genetics) “From monogenic to oligogenic: expanding the search for inheritance models in intellectual disability” Supervisor: Jeff Barrett (Sanger) |
![]() |
Thomas McKerrell (Haematology) “The prevalence and significance of clonal selection in healthy haematopoietic stem cells and its relationship to myeloid leukaemogenesis” Supervisor: George Vassiliou (Sanger) |
![]() |
Marko Nikolic (Respiratory Medicine) “Developmental studies of murine and human lung development towards differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cells to lung epithelial progenitors” Supervisor: Emma Rawlins (Gurdon) |
![]() |
Rameen Shakur (Cardiology) “Elucidating the development of ventricular tachyarrhythmias in familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathies” Supervisor: Derek Stemple (Sanger) |
![]() |
Tom Turmezei (Radiology) “3D modelling of the hip joint from clinical imaging data” Supervisor: Graham Treece (Engineering)/Ken Poole (Dept of Medicine) |
2011 intake
![]() |
Constantine Alifrangis (Medical Oncology) “Evaluation of combinatorial drug strategies to combat de novo and acquired drug resistance to targeted molecular therapy” Supervisor: Ultan McDermott (Sanger) |
![]() |
Neil Barrett (Paediatric Oncology) “A study of the developmental biology of MLL-AF4 associated infantile leukaemia in a mouse model” Supervisor: Katrin Ottersbach (CIMR) |
![]() |
Sam Behjati (Paediatrics) “Genomic profile of radiation-induced cancer” Supervisor: Mike Stratton (Sanger) |
![]() |
Marc-Philip Hitz (Cardiovascular) “Genetic determinants in left ventricular outflow tract obstruction” Supervisor: Matthew Hurles (Sanger) |
![]() |
James (Jimmy) Peters (Rheumatology) “Regulation of gene expression in immune cell subsets in health and disease” Supervisor: Ken Smith (CIMR) |
![]() |
Clara Podmore (nee Kelliny) (Metabolism) “Iron metabolism and its association with type 2 diabetes” Supervisor: Claudia Langenberg (MRC Epidemiology Unit) |
![]() |
Lucy Yates (Clinical Oncology) “Characterisation of the evolving genomic landscape in cancer relapse and metastasis” Supervisor: Peter Campbell (Sanger) |