PhD Medical Sciences

at Bangor University

Program structure

Medical Sciences with specialisations in:

• Rheumatic diseases

• Inflammatory arthritis

• Systemic lupus erythematosus

• Behavioural neurology

• Sensorimotor integration (on eye and limb movements)

• Higher order sensory processing

• Neuro-ophthalmology

• Neuro-rehabilitation

• Cardiac imaging using fMRI

• Developing the use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Rendering

• Effects of antipsychotic medication on neutrophil morphology and oxidative stress

• Use of Quantitive Structural Activity Relations in cellular responses to antipsychotics

• History of Medicine

• Parkinson’s disease

• Dementia and neurodegenerative diseases

• Evidence based healthcare

• Translation of research evidence to practice

• Patient reported outcome following hip replacement surgery

• Smell and taste pathophysiology, assessment and management

• Assessment of Endoscopic Sinus Surgery

• Transnasal fibreoptic flexible laryngo oesophagoscopy

• Dizziness assessment and treatment

• Catabolic effects of rheumatic diseases and effect on muscle mass and function

• Autoimmune rheumatic diseases - prognosis, and assessment of treatment

• Assessment of novel anti rheumatic treatment

• Respiratory Medicine

• Orthopaedic surgery

• Sports and exercise medicine

• Cardiac imaging and intervention

• Cortical processes and cardiovascular

• output

• Cardiology and nuclear medicine

• Clinical research into the assessment and development of new anti-cancer drugs

• Assessment of the effects of chemotherapy

• Intensive care medicine

• Chronic disease patient care

• Cardio-vascular risk factors in the severely mentally ill

• Genetic predictors of antidepressant response

• Mental illness in primary care patients

• Diabetes and vascular disease

Basic Medical Research:

• The genetics and molecular aeteology of cancer development / oncogenesis

• Molecular mechanisms of disease related DNA repair pathways

• The molecular basis of the cell division cycle (using human cells and model systems)

• The molecular basis of cancer drug resistance

• Molecular mechanisms of chromosomal translocations Molecular regulation of telomere biology

• The role of human germ line genes in cancer development

• The identification of new cancer-specific drug targets

• The development of patient stratification strategies

• Human stem cell biology

• Human cancer stem cell biology

• The molecular basis for human gut homeostasis

• Molecular cancer immunology

• Molecular autoimmunity