Project Titles for Health Sciences

Pharmacy     

• Modified Delivery Systems for controlled release of macromolecular actives
  Supervisor: Dr Deborah Lowry 
  Available for non-Home/EU students only - excellent applicants may apply for an international/overseas scholarship of £6,000 per year deducted from international/overseas fees   

• Mechanism of Supramolecule-Drug Complexation and Development of Novel Drug Delivery Systems
  Supervisor: Dr Defang Ouyang
  Enquiries to : Prof Yvonne Perrie 

• Mechanism of Gene-polycation Complexation and Development of a Novel Gene Delivery System
  Supervisor: Dr Defang Ouyang
  Enquiries to : Prof Yvonne Perrie

• Targeted drug delivery systems-design,assessment and optimisation using physiologically-based pharmacokineticmodelling
  Supervisor:Dr Raj Badhan

• Benchmarking Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics
  Supervisor: Dr Darren Flower
  

• Vaccine Antigen Discovery using Computational Techniques
  Supervisor: Dr Darren Flower 

• Pharmainformatics - a structured route to understanding process control
  Supervisor: Dr Andrew Ingham

• Protein drug stabilisation for long term shelf life
  Supervisor: Dr Andrew Ingham

•  Protein tablet powder properties 
  Supervisor: Dr Andrew Ingham

• Multiparticulate systems as solubilising and stability enhancing agents
  Supervisor: Dr Afzal Mohammed  

Ophthalmic Research 

• Sleep patterns and vascular health in low-vision patients
  Supervisors: Dr Doina Gherghel and Dr Dev Bhanerjee
  Available for non-Home/EU students only - excellent applicants may apply for an international/overseas scholarship of £6,000 per year deducted from international/overseas fees  

• Is the eye a window to the body’s vascular health?  Retinal vascular function in obese individuals before and after surgery induced weight-loss (bariatric surgery)
  Supervisors:  Dr Doina Gherghel and Dr Shahrad Taheri (MIDRU) 
   Available for non-Home/EU students only - excellent applicants may apply for an international/overseas scholarship of £6,000 per year deducted from international/overseas fees    

Health and Lifespan Psychology  

• Does dietary restraint predict eating behaviour in the lab and real life situations? 
  Supervisor: Dr Mike Green