Department of Cardiovascular Sciences
Example MD projects
Self-funding students or students seeking MD studentship opportunities are encouraged to view the example projects offered below by supervisors in our department. If you are interested, please contact the relevant supervisor for each project.
In the case of supervisors or co-supervisors who work in other departments, their main department is denoted in parentheses following their name.
| Title | Supervisor | Co-supervisor |
|---|---|---|
| The novel application of clinical optical coherence tomography and pressure wire assessment to post-mortem computed tomography angiography | Professor David Adlam | Professor Bruno Morgan (Leicester Cancer Research Centre) |
| Cardiologists' knowledge, attitudes and application of risk towards Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators | Dr T R Betts | Professor G André Ng |
| Biomarkers in diastolic heart failure | Professor Leong Loke Ng | Professor Iain B Squire |
| Predictors of functional recovery and left ventricular remodelling following acute myocardial infarction | Professor Iain B Squire | Professor Matt Bown |
| The significance of glucose transporters in the abdominal aortic aneurysm pathogenesis | Professor Matt Bown | Professor Rob Sayers |
| An investigation into microRNA expression profiles in abdominal aortic aneurysm disease | Professor Matt Bown | Professor Rob Sayers |
| An investigation into genetic polymorphisms and abdominal aortic aneurysms | Professor Matt Bown | Dr P Stafford/Dr Fernando Soares Schlindwein (Department of Engineering) |
| An investigation into gene expression profiles in abdominal aortic aneurysms | Professor Rob Sayers | Professor Matt Bown |
| STARTREC – Simplifying technologies for peripheral arterial disease recognition | Professor Rob Sayers | Professor Matt Bown |
| The natural history of type II endoleaks after endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair | Professor Rob Sayers | Professor David G Lambert |
| The In Vitro Effects of Antiangiogenic Treatment on Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms | Mr E Choke | Professor Rob Sayers |
|
Endothelial homeostasis as a therapeutic modality in post-cardiac surgery inflammatory organ injury |
Professor Gavin J Murphy | Professor Gerry McCann |
| Investigating persistent atrial fibrillation using non-contact array and body surface potential mapping | Professor G André Ng | Dr P Stafford/Dr A Sandilands |
| ULTIMATE: Using Lifemap to Investigate Malignant Arrhythmia Therapy | Professor G André Ng | Dr Will Nicolson |
| Role of signal averaged P waves in predicting recurrence of AF after pulmonary vein isolation | Professor G André Ng | Dr P Stafford/Dr A Sandilands |
| Engineering of novel angiopoietin 2 trap | Professor Nick Brindle | Dr Peter Moody (Department of Molecular and Cell Biology) |
| Dissecting cell signalling pathways by incorporation of unnatural amino acids for synthetic biology | Professor Nick Brindle | Dr Ralf Schmid (Department of Molecular and Cell Biology) |