The School of Biosciences is actively engaged in finding new ways to combat the COVID-19 crisis.
The School has just announced four new projects suitable for one-year MSc by research students in this exciting area. Brief project descriptions are available by clicking on the first supervisor’s name. More detailed information is available by contacting the supervisor directly, or contact our PG coordinator for advice on how to apply.
The full portfolio of MSc by research projects offered by the School for September 2020 entry can be found here.
Please note that all our MSc by research projects incur an additional research cost of £1500.
- Generation of Coronavirus protein antigens for development of diagnostics and novel vaccine approaches
Professors Mark Smales and Martin Warren - Investigating the determinants of SARS Coronavirus-2 pathogenicity Dr Mark Wass and Professor Martin Michaelis
- Towards quinine analogs for novel Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2) therapeutics Dr Simon Moore and Dr Gary Robinson
- Investigating the effect of both symptomatic and asymptomatic COVID-19 infections in the diversity of the human gut microbiome Dr Anastasios Tsaousis and Dr Jeremy Rossman