Deadline: 2 November 2018
Full cost of UK/EU tuition fees, plus a stipend
PHD
Subject areas: Infectious Disease, Microbiology, Sepsis

Start date: January 2019

Bacterial sepsis (blood poisoning) is a huge concern to local Heath Boards in South West Wales and across the UK. Conservative estimates in Wales alone have suggested the equivalent of 1800 deaths and a cost of £125 million annually. To date the Micobiology and Infectious Disease (MID) group have established a collection of important E. coli bacteria that have been isolated from patients with sepsis and are investigating the differences between these isolates, both in their inherent genetic content and how they generate immune responses in laboratory models of sepsis and local infection in epithelial cells. This PhD project aims to identify important new early bacterial and immune biomarkers to predict ‘at risk’ groups in sepsis.

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