Immune and therapeutic implications of intratumour bacteria

Project Code MRCIIAR24Br Koh Research Theme Infection, Immunity, Antimicrobial Resistance and Repair Full Project Description Please download the below document for a full project description and to see the full supervisory team. Summary Intratumour microbiota (i.e. bacteria living inside tumour…

How do tumour cells respond to infiltrated T cells and what factors are involved in the response?

Project Code MRCIIAR24Br Itasaki Research Theme Infection, Immunity, Antimicrobial Resistance and Repair Full Project Description Please download the below document for a full project description and to see the full supervisory team. Summary Tumour infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) are lymphocytes that…

Unlocking immune cells with tick-borne pathogens

Project Code MRCIIAR24Br Cadby Research Theme Infection, Immunity, Antimicrobial Resistance and Repair Full Project Description Please download the below document for a full project description and to see the full supervisory team. Summary Tick-borne Anaplasma are bacteria that infect the…

Theranostics and Multimodal Imaging with Near-Infrared Emitting Peptide Nucleic Acids

Project Code MRCIIAR24Ba Pascu Research Theme Infection, Immunity, Antimicrobial Resistance and Repair Full Project Description Please download the below document for a full project description and to see the full supervisory team. Summary The cancer incidence number is expected to…

Developing new weapons to fight drug-resistant superbugs – targeting lipoteichoic acid biosynthesis

Project Code MRCIIAR24Ba Laabei Research Theme Infection, Immunity, Antimicrobial Resistance and Repair Full Project Description Please download the below document for a full project description and to see the full supervisory team. Summary Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat…

Genetic signatures of parasitism in clinically important strains of a gastrointestinal parasite

Project Code MRCIIAR24Ba Hunt Research Theme Infection, Immunity, Antimicrobial Resistance and Repair Full Project Description Please download the below document for a full project description and to see the full supervisory team. Summary Strongyloides stercoralis is an intestinal parasite infecting…

Evolution of antimicrobial resistance in bacterial microbiomes

Project Code MRCIIAR24Ba Jones Research Theme Infection, Immunity, Antimicrobial Resistance and Repair Full Project Description Please download the below document for a full project description and to see the full supervisory team. Summary Biocides are broad spectrum antimicrobial agents used…

How are changing environments on our farms driving antifungal resistance in clinical fungal pathogens?

Project Code MRCIIAR24Ba Brown Research Theme Infection, Immunity, Antimicrobial Resistance and Repair Full Project Description Please download the below document for a full project description and to see the full supervisory team. Summary Fungal pathogens cause deadly human infections, destroy…