Participating Research Groups
Students will be able to chose from projects in groups with interests spanning bacteriology, paratisology, immunology and virology from the Departments of Pathology, Biochemistry, Medicine, Physics, Plant Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, plus the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.
The following list of supervisors offered projects in 2024, 2025, and 2026. Please note this list is illustrative and not all research groups will be available each year.
| Supervisor | Department | Research Topic |
| Adrian Liston | Department of Pathology | Immunotherapeutics to fight infection and neuroinflammation |
| Akhilesh Jha | Department of Medicine | Epithelial–Immune Crosstalk in the Human Airway |
| Alexandre Almeida | Department of Veterinary Medicine | Genetics of the human gut microbiome |
| Andrew Firth | Department of Pathology | RNA virus molecular biology, gene expression, translational control, comparative genomics, and NGS analysis |
| Arwen Altenburg | Department of Pathology | MHC-I antigen processing and presentation in virus immune detection and evasion |
| Ben Luisi | Department of Biochemistry | Structure and mechanism of bacterial multi-drug efflux pumps |
| Benjamin Krishna | Department of Medicine | Human cytomegalovirus biology in hypoxic environments |
| Betty Chung | Department of Pathology | Translational control in the context of infection |
| Brian Ferguson | Department of Pathology | Development of synthetic oncolytic poxviruses |
| Camilla Godlee | Department of Biochemistry / Pathology | Alteration of cellular membranes by bacterial virulence proteins |
| Catherine Merrick | Department of Pathology | Studying the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum |
| Christina Zielinski | Department of Pathology | Fate decisions of human T cells accross the body |
| Cinzia Cantacessi | Department of Veterinary Medicine | Gastrointestinal helminths, host-parasite interactions and high-throughput sequencing technologies |
| Clare Bryant | Department of Veterinary Medicine | Host recognition of infection |
| Colin Crump | Department of Pathology | How viruses interact with and modify host cells during different stages of their infection cycles |
| Dami Collier | Department of Pathology | Within-host evolution of HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 |
| Emma Poole | Department of Pathology | Molecular mechanisms that control human cytomegalovirus latency |
| Hendrik van Veen | Department of Pharmacology | Phospholipid transporters in antimicrobial resistance |
| Ioanna Mela | Department of Pharmacology | DNA Nanostructure Development and Aptamer Selection |
| James Thaventhiran | Department of MRC Toxicology | Improvement of vaccine efficacy and toxicity in mice and humans |
| Jeanne Salje | Department of Pathology / Biochemistry | The cell biology of obligate intracellular bacteria |
| John Doorbar | Department of Pathology | How HPV infection leads to disease |
| John McCafferty | Department of Medicine | Recombinant antibody technology |
| Kate Baker | Department of Genetics | Bacterial genetics and antimicrobial resistance |
| Klaus Okkenhaug | Department of Pathology | PI3 kinases in immunity, infection and cancer |
| Louise Boyle | Department of Pathology | Molecular mechanisms controlling peptide selection for immune recognition |
| Maria Adelaida Duque-Correa | Department of Stem Cell Institute | Tissue damage, regeneration and stem cell perturbation by parasitic worms |
| Mark Wills | Department of Pathology | Immunological mechanisms regulating human cytomegalovirus infection |
| Nerea Irigoyen | Department of Pathology | Role of virus protein translation in pathogenicity and disease |
| Nick Matheson | Department of Medicine | HIV and immunometabolism |
| Rahul Roychoudhuri | Department of Pathology | Immune Regulation in Inflammation and Cancer |
| Roger Rubio Sánchez | Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology | Exploiting synthetic cell platforms to develop next-generation antimicrobials |
| Ross Waller | Department of Biochemistry | Investigating molecular function, diversity and evolution in cells |
| Sam Wilson | Department of Medicine | Innate Immune Barriers to the Emergence and Pathogenesis of Pandemic Viruses |
| Somenath Bakshi | Department of Engineering | Microfludics platforms to study bacteria and virus infections |
| Stephen Graham | Department of Pathology | Molecular mechanisms by which viruses remodel the composition and architecture of host membranes during infection |
| Tim Halim | Department of Pathology | Early cancer and immune co-evolution |
| Vasilis Kosmoliaptsis | Department of Surgery | Molecular mechanisms of immune mediated ischaemia-reperfusion injury in the transplantation context |
| Virginia Pedicord | Department of Medicine | Interaction between the microbiome and immune cell function |
| Yorgo Modis | Department of Medicine | Cellular mechanisms of viral gene sensing and silencing |