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University of Leeds

PhD in Neuroscience - Neurodegeneration

Name: PhD in Neuroscience - Neurodegeneration
Price: £5006 GBP

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Full time | Leeds, Main | 3 years | DEC-25

Study mode

Full time

Duration

3 years

Start date

DEC-25

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Qualification type

PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy

Subject areas

Neuroscience / Neurobiology

Course Summary

A research degree in the Faculty of Biological Sciences is an opportunity to gain and develop skills as an independent researcher in your chosen field. Under the supervision of your lead supervisor and one or more co-supervisors, you will get the chance to carry out cutting-edge research on a particular biological problem and to become part of a large research community using multi-disciplinary approaches to tackle today’s important research questions. Throughout your PhD you will not only strengthen your research skills and knowledge within your research area but also develop skills through our training programmes as well as through attendance as seminars and conferences.As we get older, our nervous system deteriorates causing reduction in our mental ability, making it harder to learn and remember, and changes our personality. In some individuals such changes are associated with a genetic cause and occur at an early age displaying profound differences in behaviour from the societal norm. Ongoing neurodegeneration leads to continuing decline in an individual’s mental and physical health. The resulting effects on such patients are huge, ultimately fatal and we currently have no cures or effective treatments for them. At Leeds we are working to understand some of molecular pathways involved in the disease progression and identify what the involvement of specific genes, and the genetic variation within them, is to the disease process. Our major goal is to determine how drugs that interfere with these pathways can protect the neurones from deteriorating and improve cognition within patients.

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£5,006

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£31,000

Entry requirements

Good first degree in a relevant subject

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