MRC Students - Past and Current

Evie Maifoshie

Research in the Faculty of Medicine is enabled by world-class expertise and takes place in departments rated 5 and 5* in the last RAE. Research Projects are available across the Faculty's research themes.

Students who have received the MRC PhD Studentship are now participating in a wide variety of research topics throughout the Faculty of Medicine. These are just some of the activities and achievements of previous and current students.

Helen Jenkins 2006/07 intake
Division of Epidemiology, Public Health and Primary Care

Helen published a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine on 16 October 2008 on immunization against polio in Nigeria. According to the study, the recently introduced polio vaccine is four times more effective at protecting children than previous vaccines and has the potential to eradicate type 1 polio in Nigeria if it reaches enough children. For full details click here.  

Anne Corbett 2004/05 intake
Division of Investigative Science

Anne won joint first place in the prestigious MRC Max Perutz Science Writing Award for an essay she wrote about meningitis. Anne did her PhD in the Division of Investigative Science and her winning essay, "Behind enemy lines - discovering the stealth tactics of the meningococcus," describes her work on the human meningococcus pathogen. As part of her prize, Anne's essay was published in the Guardian newspaper. For full details click here.

Jimmy Kwok 2006/07 intake
Division of Surgery, Oncology, Reproductive Biology and Anaesthetics

Jimmy is working on breast cancer with Professor Eric Lam and has published the following paper:

Thiostrepton selectively targets breast cancer cells through inhibition of forkhead box M1 expression. Kwok JM, Myatt SS, Marson CM, Coombes RC, Constantinidou D, Lam EW.  [ ]1: Mol Cancer Ther. 2008 Jul;7(7):2022-32

Isobel Blake 2006/07 intake
Division of Epidemiology, Public Health and Primary Care

Isobel won 2nd prize for best poster presentation at ‘Research in Progress’ meeting of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 2007.

For more information about the research conducted by MRC Studentship recipients, please view the links down the right hand side.