Academic Foundation projects

Recent projects

Conveying statistics and research methods to surgeons and improving PROMs (patient reported outcome measures)

Making academic research skills accessible and using computerised adaptive testing (CAT) to improve PROMs

Tolerance in human kidney transplantation and using big data in orthopaedics

Examining T regulatory cells as inducers of tolerance in transplantation and outcomes following lower-limb surgeries across the last 25 years in the UK

Spatial antigen expression of Hepatitis C Virus Envelope-Glycoprotein (E1E2) vaccines

Developing a technique to investigate how much antigen produced from a vaccine candidate presents to the cell surface

Wearable devices in hospital inpatients and preventing cardiometabolic disease in the young

Researching the use of wearable devices for the detection and diagnosis of atrial fibrillation and working with large datasets to prevent cardiometabolic disease in the young

Dermatology, management and policy

Creating Trust-wide prescribing guidelines and setting up a dermatology service with embedded psychological support

Homelessness and mortality in Oxfordshire

Working with local homelessness services and the city council to evaluate mortality data

Ceramide-C16 and cardiovascular disease

Evaluating how Ceramide-C16 modulates myocardial and vascular endothelial insulin signalling and RedOx states

Addressing patient exclusion from research trials

Using EEG during sleep in stroke patients to determine changes in microarchitecture relevant to memory formation

Delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) reactions of the skin and drug development

Developing a framework to guide researchers on how to use the DTH response in drug development