[Lfm] Fwd: PhD opportunity

Mon Sep 4 12:49:32 BST 2017

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From: Joaquin De Navascues Melero <deNavascuesJ at cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:deNavascuesJ at cardiff.ac.uk>>
Subject: PhD opportunity
Date: 4 September 2017 at 12:36:20 BST
Cc: "jedi at fly-jedi.org<mailto:jedi at fly-jedi.org> JEDI" <jedi at fly-jedi.org<mailto:jedi at fly-jedi.org>>, Richard Clarkson <ClarksonR at cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:ClarksonR at cardiff.ac.uk>>, Helen White-Cooper <White-CooperH at cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:White-CooperH at cardiff.ac.uk>>, Michael Taylor <TaylorMV at cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:TaylorMV at cardiff.ac.uk>>, Sonia Lopez De Quinto <LopezdeQuintoS at cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:LopezdeQuintoS at cardiff.ac.uk>>, Wynand Van Der Goes Van Naters <VanDerGoesVanNatersWM at cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:VanDerGoesVanNatersWM at cardiff.ac.uk>>, Alfonso Martinez Arias <ama11 at hermes.cam.ac.uk<mailto:ama11 at hermes.cam.ac.uk>>, "c.okane at gen.cam.ac.uk<mailto:c.okane at gen.cam.ac.uk>" <c.okane at gen.cam.ac.uk<mailto:c.okane at gen.cam.ac.uk>>, Marisa Segal <ms433 at cam.ac.uk<mailto:ms433 at cam.ac.uk>>, Matt Smalley <SmalleyMJ at cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:SmalleyMJ at cardiff.ac.uk>>, "l.masuda-nakagawa at gen.cam.ac.uk<mailto:l.masuda-nakagawa at gen.cam.ac.uk>" <l.masuda-nakagawa at gen.cam.ac.uk<mailto:l.masuda-nakagawa at gen.cam.ac.uk>>, "Lee Parry" <ParryL3 at cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:ParryL3 at cardiff.ac.uk>>, Toby Phesse <PhesseT at cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:PhesseT at cardiff.ac.uk>>, "Isabel Palacios" <mip22 at cam.ac.uk<mailto:mip22 at cam.ac.uk>>, Isabel Martinez Garay <MartinezGarayI at cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:MartinezGarayI at cardiff.ac.uk>>, Bruce Caterson <Caterson at cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:Caterson at cardiff.ac.uk>>, "rita.sousa-nunes at kcl.ac.uk<mailto:rita.sousa-nunes at kcl.ac.uk>" <rita.sousa-nunes at kcl.ac.uk<mailto:rita.sousa-nunes at kcl.ac.uk>>, Claudia Barros <claudia.barros at plymouth.ac.uk<mailto:claudia.barros at plymouth.ac.uk>>, Torsten Bossing <torsten.bossing at plymouth.ac.uk<mailto:torsten.bossing at plymouth.ac.uk>>, Tony Southall <tds1978 at gmail.com<mailto:tds1978 at gmail.com>>, "paul martin" <paul.martin at bristol.ac.uk<mailto:paul.martin at bristol.ac.uk>>, William Wood <w.wood at bristol.ac.uk<mailto:w.wood at bristol.ac.uk>>, Neil Rodrigues <RodriguesN at cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:RodriguesN at cardiff.ac.uk>>

Dear friends and colleagues,

I have a project on offer at the GW4 BioMed Doctoral Training Partnership of the MRC/GW4 alliance:
http://www.gw4biomed.ac.uk/files/2017/08/A-Drosophila-in-vivo-platform-for-the-study-of-chronic-radiation-injury-1.docx<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gw4biomed.ac.uk%2Ffiles%2F2017%2F08%2FA-Drosophila-in-vivo-platform-for-the-study-of-chronic-radiation-injury-1.docx&data=01%7C01%7Crita.sousa-nunes%40kcl.ac.uk%7C82ee03eb764446b6b70f08d4f3892b7d%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=TXjfpEyP9%2FIYJsZvCw5QLu2TRjqKt4c%2BaCZs5Yk2kns%3D&reserved=0>

This is open to both UK and EU students.

Details on eligibility:
http://www.gw4biomed.ac.uk/eligibility/<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gw4biomed.ac.uk%2Feligibility%2F&data=01%7C01%7Crita.sousa-nunes%40kcl.ac.uk%7C82ee03eb764446b6b70f08d4f3892b7d%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=JNARAkM%2BdhgPsGPqVySz414vnAjVGy42abDTV5qkMuw%3D&reserved=0>

How to apply:
http://www.gw4biomed.ac.uk/projects-2/for-students<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gw4biomed.ac.uk%2Fprojects-2%2Ffor-students&data=01%7C01%7Crita.sousa-nunes%40kcl.ac.uk%7C82ee03eb764446b6b70f08d4f3892b7d%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=VtGNmxxNUdYq7Qa2%2F0dFy4%2BQf7dFLMdLqNFk70%2B3cQA%3D&reserved=0>

I would be grateful if you could pass this to any potentially interested students.

Thanks,
JQ

Joaquín de Navascués, PhD
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Research Fellow, European Cancer Stem Cell Research Institute
School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Hadyn Ellis Building, Maindy Road
Cardiff CF24 4HQ (Wales, UK)
email: deNavascuesJ at cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:deNavascuesJ at cardiff.ac.uk>
twitter: @jdenavascues

Cymrawd Ymchwil, Y Sefydliad Ymchwil Bôngelloedd Canser Ewropeaidd
Ysgol y Biowyddorau, Prifysgol Caerdydd
Adeilad Hadyn Ellis, Heol Maindy
Caerdydd, CF24 4HQ (Cymru, TU)
ebost: deNavascuesJ at caerdydd.ac.uk<mailto:deNavascuesJ at caerdydd.ac.uk>
twitter: @jdenavascues

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Title
A Drosophila in vivo platform for the study of chronic radiation injury
Description
Radiotherapy is an essential component of cancer treatment, indicated to ~50% of all patients, responsible for 40% of cures, and taking only 5% of the cancer care costs. Its efficacy is limited by ionising radiation injury to the normal tissue, which can become chronic. These late effects may be very serious and can affect the quality of life of cancer survivors, years after treatment. With an increasing population of cancer survivors (2M in the UK), chronic radiation injury is a mounting health care concern. Radiotherapy doses are generally defined so that less than 5% of patients will suffer serious late toxicity. The better understanding of the genetics underlying radiation sensitivity in patients would allow their stratification, prescribing stronger radiation doses to resistant patients and milder ones to those susceptible of suffering from late toxicity. Likewise, insights into the nature of late toxicity could lead to co-treatments to ameliorate these side effects. The project aims at identifying genes involved in the predisposition to chronic radiation injury, using Drosophila melanogaster and assays that model late radiation injury in the fly intestine, developed in JdN’s lab. Identified genes could point at human homologs as potential biomarkers of susceptibility, and provide useful mechanistic understanding for the design of better treatments.

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Rita Sousa-Nunes PhD
Cancer Research UK Career Development Fellow
Neurogenesis and Cancer Lab
Centre for Developmental Neurobiology
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King's College London
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
Guy's Campus
London SE1 1UL
United Kingdom

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