Details This project envisions revolutionizing endoluminal catheterization through the integration of soft robotics, embodied intelligence, and artificial intelligence. This innovation aims to enable minimally invasive… Read More »PhD Versatile Soft Catheter System for Advanced Endoluminal and Tissue Navigation
The opportunity A fantastic opportunity at the University of Plymouth for PhD students planning to develop a research career in dementia research who are passionate… Read More »Alzheimer’s Society I-Care DTC PhD Studentships at University of Plymouth
Details The Challenge By 2030, the UK will generate approximately 1 million tons of decommissioned solar panels annually. Current recycling methods are energy-intensive, economically unviable… Read More »PhD Flash Joule Heating Technology for Sustainable Solar Panel Recycling
Project Overview Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) is a debilitating psychiatric disorder accompanied by intense symptoms of anxiety, depression, cognitive deficits and pain in the final… Read More »PhD Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder Links Between Mental, Hormonal and Cortical Health
Details This PhD, supported by Vertex, will develop a next-generation Glomerulus-on-a-Chip platform that integrates engineering design, microfluidics, mechanobiology and biomaterials to recreate the biomechanical and… Read More »PhD Developing an Advanced Glomerulus-on-a-Chip Model to Study Inflammation in the Kidney
Details Asthma is a chronic lung condition and currently there are 7.2million people in the UK with the disease. Asthma is an inflammatory disease of… Read More »PhD Targeting Inflammatory Pathways in Asthma Utilising an Alveolar Lung-on-a-Chip Model
Details Skin toxicity remains one of the most challenging dose-limiting side effects of oncology drugs, especially targeted therapies. Existing in vitro and animal models lack… Read More »PhD Development of a Dual-use Skin-on-a-Chip Model for Assessment of Oncology Drug Toxicity
Details While healthy adipose tissue (AT) is key for energy storage and heat generation, its dysfunction contributes to the development of metabolic and cardiovascular diseases… Read More »PhD Development of an Immune-Infiltrated Adipose Tissue-on-a-Chip Model for Interactions Between Inflammation and Dysfunction
Details This project aims to engineer an organ-on-chip model that enables the co-culture of healthy neural cells with glioblastoma spheroids on a scale (millimetres) that… Read More »PhD Development of Brain Tumour Margin-on-a-Chip Model for Treatment of Tumour Recurrence
Details Organ-chip models offer exciting opportunity to unlock discovery science and pre-clinical testing, by providing more human-relevant models of disease. However, the design of appropriate… Read More »PhD 3D Printing Complex Microenvironments for Next Generation Musculoskeletal Organ-Chips