Complement UK / Alexion

PhD Studentships

APPLICATION FORM

Deadline: midnight, Friday, 17th January 2014

Personal Details

Family name / Forenames / Title (e.g. Mr, Mrs, Miss, Dr)
Nationality / Current Country of Residence / Date of residence in that country
E-Mail Address / Telephone

Education and Qualifications

Secondary/High School Education (Only include A level grades, or equivalent).
Subject / Date / School / Grades
Higher Education: Undergraduate and Masters (or equivalent)
Institution / Degree
(eg BSc) / Subject(s) / Class/
Grade / Award Month
and Year

Prizes and Other Outstanding Achievements

Award Year / Details

Employment/Work Experience

List any relevant posts you have held, including vacation work, starting with the most recent.
Employer / From (mm/yy) / To (mm/yy) / Position Held
Describe your current activities or position
(Please limit your response to 300 words or less)
Outline your research experience (e.g. final year project, sandwich year, vacation work.
(Please limit your response to 1000 words or less)
Please list and publications and presentations, include date

Supporting statement

Please explain your reasons for applying for a Complement Uk PhD studentship
(Please limit your response to 500 words or less)

Other Information

Please detail any other information which you consider relevant to your application
(Please limit your response to 300 words or less)

Referees (will be contacted only for shortlisted students)

Please provide the names and contact information of two academic referees.
Referee 1 / Referee 2
Name / Name
Address / Address
Tel. / Tel.
Email / Email
Relationship to you / Relationship to you

Project Preferences

Please indicate those projects in which you are particularly interested. These choices are not binding at this stage, successful candidates will make their final choice after interview.
1 - Investigating whether complement activation inside the eye is more important than complement activation in the systemic circulation in the pathogenesis of age-related macular degeneration, using a cell culture model.
Professor Andrew Lotery
Faculty of Medicine
University of Southampton / 2 - Improved conjugate vaccines derived from a bacterial immunomodulatory protein
Dr Keith Marchbank
Institute of Cellular Medicine
Newcastle University / 3 - Genetic variations in complement and impact on eculizumab efficacy.
ProfessorPeter Hillmen
Section of Experimental Haematology
University of Leeds
4 - Activation and inactivation of complement anaphylatoxins and their receptors during neutrophil dominated inflammation of the cystic fibrosis airway.
Dr Eamon McGreal
Institute of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, Cardiff University / 5 - Genetic variants of terminal pathway components in age-related macular degeneration and atypical haemolytic uraemic syndrome.
Professor BPaul Morgan
Infection and Immunity
Cardiff University / 6 - Factor H activation-a new strategy for therapeutic complement inhibition.
Professor Paul Barlow
School of Chemistry
University of Edinburgh
7 - Molecular mechanisms for aHUS using a combined bioinformatics-molecular interactions strategy for the disease-associated complement genes.
Professor Stephen Perkins
Dept of Structural and Molecular Biology
University College London / 8 - Unravelling the structural and functional defects in naturally occurring diseaseassociated variants of mannan-binding lectin.
Dr Russell Wallis
Dept of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester / 9 - Optimising recombinant mouse factor H constructs for therapy in murine models of kidney disease.
Dr David Kavanagh
Institute of Genetic Medicine
Newcastle University

Monitoring

How did you hear about the Complement-UK PhD Opportunities?
Email from my university/course organiser / FindAPhD.com / Other (please indicate)

Declaration

a) I certify that the information given in this form is complete, up-to-date and correct.
b) I understand that in signing below I agree to King’s College London processing my personal data (as defined by the Data Protection Act 1998) and sharing that data necessary for administrative purposes with other Universities included in the Complement UK research organisation
Type your name here to certify. You will be required to sign this form if invited for an interview. / Date

Thank you for completing the application form!

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