Louise Hesketh

0+4 Student I graduated from King’s in July 2016 with a BSc Biomedical Sciences. Upon graduation, I was awarded the Layton Science Research Award for my work during my final year dissertation research project, which focussed on understanding the biochemical effects on...
Evita Otigbah

Evita Otigbah

Pathway Journey My PhD project was focused around better understanding the contribution of Endosomal Sorting Complex Required for Transport (ESCRT) machinery to nuclear envelope homeostasis. In my PhD research I have explored two poorly characterised ESCRT‐III binding...
Joe Barnby

Joe Barnby

Pathway Journey Psychopharmacological and computational investigation of the cognitive mechanisms supporting paranoia. My PhD project is “What is the relationship between dopamine modulation and social cognition and beliefs? Implications for the psychosis...
James Opzoomer

James Opzoomer

0+4 Student I graduated with a B.Sc in Biochemistry from McGill University in 2014, undertaking research placements in the labs of Prof. Benny Chain at UCL and Prof. Hidde Ploegh at MIT. Following this, I spent a year working at the biotech company DNA Electronics in...
Elisa Brann

Elisa Brann

0+4 Student My PhD is focused on the electrophysiological basis of auditory verbal hallucinations, in other words what is happening in the brain when people are hearing voices. Such hallucinatory experiences are often associated with psychiatric conditions, such as...
Dominic Oliver

Dominic Oliver

Pathway Journey PhD Project: Improving prediction of psychosis risk • Performed first international replication and first implementation study for transdiagnostic risk calculator for psychosis • Developed, digitally implemented and piloted novel multivariate...
Eilidh MacNicol

Eilidh MacNicol

Pathway Journey Characterising structural and functional brain changes associated with healthy ageing using longitudinal MRI in rats. Biography My PhD research as part of the MRC DTP used MRI to identify changes in brain networks related to healthy ageing. During this...
Alexandra Lautsrescu

Alexandra Lautsrescu

0+4 Student I am doing a 0+4 PhD in the department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, looking at the effect of maternal prenatal depression on fetal and neonatal brain development. My project is part of the Developing Human Connectome Project...
Adam Jones

Adam Jones

0+4 Student I graduated from KCL with a BSc in Anatomy, Developmental and Human Biology, during which I was also awarded two summer studentships: at KCL in the Randell Division, working on cloning and purification of deletion mutants of proteins; and at UCL in the...
Azalea Khan

Azalea Khan

0+4 Student I am doing 0+4 year PhD in theme 4. My project is about PET imaging of cancer nanomedicines. I am working with Dr Rafael Torres M. de Rosales at St Thomas’ Hospital. I chose the MRC DTP because of the wide range of projects it offers for people from...