CASE Programme

Looking for a PhD which gives you the opportunity to work with an industry partner?

Our CASE studentships offer the opportunity to work in partnership with industry, undertaking an industry placement and benefiting from an industrial supervisor as part of your supervisory team.

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CASE partners include
 PartnerProject TitleLead Supervisor 
 haleon

Deciphering Oral Movements in Health and Disease using MRI Imaging and Computer Vision

Mechanisms of Action of Sodium Bicarbonate on Oral Biofilms

Galina Pavovskaya

Stephen Heeb

 convatec Novel self-oxygenating and cell-instructive materials for chronic wound healing Babtunde Okesola
 ADHB Maedi-Visna Virus Variation in UK sheep flocks: implications for virus control Rachael Tarlinton
 Croda  Using virus-like particles to understand the key success criteria in dsRNA delivery for crop protection Hadrien Peyret
 topigs  Developmental consequences of heat stress on pre-elongating and gastrulating pig embryos Kevin Sinclair
 neupulse  Insula and cingulate contributions to the control of tic-like movements and other behaviours relevant to Tourette’s syndrome: integrative neuroscience studies in rats Tobias Bast
 abagri

The plasticity of insects’ microbiome and the impact of feeding to chickens 

The impacts of carbohydrate and protein interactions in novel feed ingredients on amino acid digestibility

 John Brameld

 

John Brameld

 Kemin Optimisation of protease feed additives for poultry to increase protein utilisation efficiency from locally produced sources  Emily Burton
 eregban Native mass spectrometry for the discovery of new anticancer agents Neil Oldham
AZ mRNA cap methylation – localisation and mechanisms in gene expression and RNA therapeutics.  Nathan Archer
peptimatrix

Engineering Biology approaches to functionalised hydrogel production 

Next-generation nanoparticle functionalisation for selective delivery to brain tumours 

Role of Extracellular Matrix in Hypoxic Metastasis 

Neil Thomas

Ruman Rahman

Kenton Arkill

Cairn The Fast and Non-Spurious: High-content screening without artefact in barrier tissues on a chip.  Kevin Webb
hydregeb From nature to industry: applying H2-metabolising enzymes to sustainable biocatalysis. Simone Morra
phyn

Machine Learning for predicting yeast phenotype from genotype for biotech applications 

Evolving novel yeast expression hosts for large scale biomaterial and biologic production

Markus Owen

 

Neil Thomas

Anglo American Does fertilizer placement play a key role in crop establishment?  Craig Sturrock
diageo

Evaluating impacts of elevated CO2 and temperature on yield and grain quality in cereals 

Strategies to understand and reduce the spoilage potential of low and non-alcoholic beverages

Guillermina Mendiondo

Chris Powell

manchester biogel Understanding mechanisms driving lung disease caused by environmental particulate matter Nick Hannan
NZN Optimising plant symbiotic bacteria through quorum-sensing and engineering biology approaches for delivery of climate-smart, sustainable nitrogen fertilizer for agriculture Klaus Winzer
Diamond Chromatin Regulator KAT6B and its Role in gene expression and DNA binding David Heery
syngenta To seal or not to seal. Characterization of root sealing regulatory mechanisms in plant colonised by microbes Gabriel Castrillo
ONT

Optimising translocation of Hel308 helicase for improved nanopore DNA sequencing

Structural and copy number variation analysis using adaptive long read sequencing

Thorsten Allers

 

Matt Loose

bactobio A chemistry-first approach to uncovering novel natural products from a proprietary strain collection of rare and unexplored bacteria Ellis O'Neill
ragt Exploiting wheat-wild relative introgression lines and synthetics for resistance to viral diseases under climate change Surbhi Grewal
ADAS The development of bacteriophage as bionanoparticles for gene therapy Kevin Gough
Unilever

Exploring the association between temperature and sweetness perception and the role of different composition on sweetness perception

Mathematical modelling of oral microbiome resilience

Novel utilisation of trigeminal stimulants as bioactive ingredients to design innovative and improved oral-care formulations in scientific and sustain

Qian Yang

 

Dov Stekel

Nicole Yang

Agrigum Encapsulating and cryoprotecting properties of natural composites based on gum acacia Vincenzo Di Bari
TdeltaS Ltd Synthetic biology for sustainable biomanufacturing John Heap
whetman Right place, right time: Targeted auxin delivery to improve tree cutting propagation Amanda Rasmussen
calysta Synthetic biology of methane oxidising bacteria for the production of high-quality feed protein Ying Zhang
arla A minimally invasive stable-isotope approach to determine nutrient handling across the life-course. Philip Atherton
bneuro Perineuronal Nets In Cognition And Behaviour Tobias Bast
OMASS Screening for anti-cancer agents against the smoothened receptor using novel mass spectrometry-based methodology Neil Oldham
CFF Diversifying world agriculture - a common framework for crop data comparison Guillermina Mendiondo
SWL Development and evaluation of a localised delivery system for the ant-cancer agent MTL-004 in the treatment of malilgnant brain tumours Ruman Rahman
Algaecytes Developing the Alga Euglena Gracilis as a source of vegan omega oils and other high value compounds Ellis O'Neill
     

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