CSC-CAMS-Oxford Scholarship Awarded DPhil Projects
Below are details of the awarded projects from 2018 onwards
2022 INTAKE
| Project | Supervisor | Student |
| Immunopathogenesis of COVID-19 in the lung | William James | Xu Liu |
2021 INTAKE
| Project | Supervisor | Student |
| Analyses of paired host-virus genomic data to understand disease heterogeneity of viral infections | Azim Ansari | Zhiqing Wang |
| Asymmetric cell division and metabolism in antigen-specific / old/ young human T cells | Katya Simon / Teresa Lambe | Lin Luo |
| A multi-omic approach to investigating the host response to severe infection | Julian Knight | Hanyu Qin |
2020 INTAKE
| Project | Supervisor | Student |
| The role of zinc in immune function | Richard Cornall | Jie Yan |
| Measuring lung inhomogeneity using a novel non-invasive technique to phenotype airways diseases | Ian Pavord | Haopeng Xu |
| Personalised immunotherapy treatment to manage malignant pleural effusion progression (the TAILOR study) | Najib Rahman / Nikolaos Kanellakis | Yu Zhao |
| Modelling of non-typeable haemophilus influenzae / rhinovirus interactions in lower airways inflammation in mouse and human | Tim Hinks | Yuqing Long |
| Describing peripheral T cell responses to immunotherapy | Mark Middleton | Fei Gao |
| Study of broadly protective human monoclonal antibodies to influenza neuraminidases | Alain Townsend / Pramila Rijal | Leiyan Wei |
| Exploring the basis of cardiac remodelling in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: the role of the immune system | Hugh Watkins | Anan Huang |
| Defining the relationship between DNA repair deficiency, STING and ENPP1 | Eileen Parkes | Songliang Du |
2019 Intake
| Project | Supervisor | Student |
| The threshold of B cell activation | Richard Cornall | Jianwei Cui |
| Elucidating the role of tissue-resident immune cells in alveolar epithelial regeneration and lung fibrosis | Ling-Pei Ho | Tian Hu |
| Regulating the tumour microenvironment by p53 signalling pathways | Xin Lu | Yu Jin |
| Characterisation of sympathetic neurons and cardiomyocytes derived from human pluripotent stem cells and their therapeutic mechanism | David Paterson | Ni Li |
| Genomics of host susceptibility to severe infection | Julian Knight | Weifeng Li |
| Development of a universal vaccine protecting from dengue and zika viruses infection | Gavin Screaton | Chang Liu |
| HLA-E restricted HIV-specific CD8 T cells | Andrew McMichael | Hong Sun |
| Alteration in stress granule assembly in motor neurons carrying TDP-43 mutations | Kevin Talbot | Yinyan Xu |
| Super-resolution imaging and CRISPR-CAS9 targeting of the abnormal bone marrow microenvironment in myeloproliferative neoplasms | Adam Mead | Zhiyan Xu |
| Unbiased Molecular Definition of Epithelial Barrier Defects Driving Inflammatory Bowel Disease | Alison Simmons | Zinan Yin |
2018 Intake
| Project | Supervisor | Student |
| Study of antigen processing and presentation of Tumor antigen recognised by spontaneous T cell responses in cancer patients. | Tao Dong |
Wenbo Wang |
| Role of ubiquitination in regulating the inflammasome. | Benedikt Kessler | Zhu Liang |
| The genomic analysis of biomedical big data. | Gil McVean | Yidong Zhang |
| Globin gene regulation and thalassaemia therapy | Doug Higgs | Siyu Liu |
| Chromatin Remodelling and Gene Expression | Richard Gibbons | Yuqi Shen |