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About Medical Sciences Phd/mphil in Bangor University

Medical Sciences with specialisations in:

• Rheumatic diseases
• Inflammatory arthritis
• Systemic lupus erythematosus
• Behavioural neurology
• Sensorimotor integration (on eye and limb movements)
• Higher order sensory processing
• Neuro-ophthalmology
• Neuro-rehabilitation
• Cardiac imaging using fMRI
• Developing the use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Rendering
• Effects of antipsychotic medication on neutrophil morphology and oxidative stress
• Use of Quantitive Structural Activity Relations in cellular responses to antipsychotics
• History of Medicine
• Parkinson’s disease
• Dementia and neurodegenerative diseases
• Evidence based healthcare
• Translation of research evidence to practice
• Patient reported outcome following hip replacement surgery
• Smell and taste pathophysiology, assessment and management
• Assessment of Endoscopic Sinus Surgery
• Transnasal fibreoptic flexible laryngo oesophagoscopy
• Dizziness assessment and treatment
• Catabolic effects of rheumatic diseases and effect on muscle mass and function
• Autoimmune rheumatic diseases - prognosis, and assessment of treatment
• Assessment of novel anti rheumatic treatment
• Respiratory Medicine
• Orthopaedic surgery
• Sports and exercise medicine
• Cardiac imaging and intervention
• Cortical processes and cardiovascular
• output
• Cardiology and nuclear medicine
• Clinical research into the assessment and development of new anti-cancer drugs
• Assessment of the effects of chemotherapy
• Intensive care medicine
• Chronic disease patient care
• Cardio-vascular risk factors in the severely mentally ill
• Genetic predictors of antidepressant response
• Mental illness in primary care patients
• Diabetes and vascular disease

Basic Medical Research:

• The genetics and molecular aeteology of cancer development / oncogenesis
• Molecular mechanisms of disease related DNA repair pathways
• The molecular basis of the cell division cycle (using human cells and model systems)
• The molecular basis of cancer drug resistance
• Molecular mechanisms of chromosomal translocations Molecular regulation of telomere biology
• The role of human germ line genes in cancer development
• The identification of new cancer-specific drug targets
• The development of patient stratification strategies
• Human stem cell biology
• Human cancer stem cell biology
• The molecular basis for human gut homeostasis
• Molecular cancer immunology
• Molecular autoimmunity 

A list of academic staff within the School of Medical Sciences can be found here, alternatively, contact medsciences@bangor.ac.uk with an outline of your research proposal, including actual or prospective funding, and an appropriate academic will be identified within the school.

Academic qualification equivalents

• Good grades in Bachelor degree and a Masters degree. Previous research experience is essential.

English language requirements (one of the below):

• IELTS: Academic 6.0 or 6.5 This must include a minimum of 5.5 in Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing.
• PTE: 56 (51) - 62(58).

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Cost of living

International students are highly advised to have an idea of the expenses required to survive in a foreign land. While it is difficult to reveal an exact amount required, a rough estimated amount required for accommodation, travel and stay for aspirants looking to study in the UK is around 900 to 1100 GBP, per month for a single student living in Bangor. 

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