We are pleased to announce several PhD opportunities within the Advanced Radiotherapy group of Radiation Related Research (RRR) at the Manchester Cancer Research Centre (http://www.mcrc.manchester.ac.uk):

 –          Avoiding cardiac toxicity in lung cancer patients treated with curative-intent radiotherapy to improve survival (Lead supervisor: Professor Corinne Faivre-Finn)
http://www.crukcentre.manchester.ac.uk/Training/PhD-Training-Scheme/PhD-Projects-for-2018#CorinneFaivreFinn (clinical fellowship)

–          Using Hypoxia-MRI to guide adaptive radiotherapy (Lead supervisor: Dr James O’Connor)
http://www.crukcentre.manchester.ac.uk/Training/PhD-Training-Scheme/PhD-Projects-for-2018#JamesOConnor (clinical fellowship)

–          Optimising image guidance quality for high-accuracy proton therapy (Lead supervisor: Dr Marianne Aznar)
http://www.crukcentre.manchester.ac.uk/Training/PhD-Training-Scheme/PhD-Projects-for-2018#MarianneAznar (non-clinical studentship)

–          Biologically optimising Small Cell Lung Cancer radiotherapy using radiomics biomarkers in routine treatment guidance images (Lead supervisor: Dr Gareth Price)
http://www.crukcentre.manchester.ac.uk/Training/PhD-Training-Scheme/PhD-Projects-for-2018#GarethPrice (non-clinical studentship)

–          Advanced radiotherapy planning based on probabilistic concepts for photon and proton therapy (Lead supervisor: Professor Marcel van Herk) http://www.crukcentre.manchester.ac.uk/Training/PhD-Training-Scheme/PhD-Projects-for-2018#MarcelvanHerk (non-clinical studentship)

The studentships are for 4 years (clinical fellowships for 3) and come complete with a  generous stipend. Further details are given in the links above. Please feel free to contact the lead supervisors directly to discuss the projects.

 

 

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