全奖｜年薪20W，英国纽卡斯尔大学招收博士生

留德华叫兽 · 公众号 · · 2025-02-10 09:34

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职位信息

PhD Studentship – Anti-crystal Engineering to Prevent Drug Induced Nephrotoxicity

2025-02-13截止

简介

Our team stands as an example of excellence in pioneering and impactful advancements in pharmaceutical sciences with a track record in leading EPSRC and charity (Action Medical Research/LifeArc) funded projects.

We bring together complementary expertise in modelling supersaturating drug delivery systems alongside extensive experience with predictive in vitro tools which will contribute to a nuanced understanding of crystalluria and provide clinicians with a set of new tools (via Phase I/II trials) to prevent crystalluria.

薪资待遇

Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) is often diagnosed late, is ineffectively managed and has been recognised as a condition of global concern—we want to stop it from happening in the first place. We know that the kidney is particularly vulnerable to drug toxicity because of its ability to concentrate medicines, but we don't know how to modulate this concentrating effect in order to prevent this adverse drug reaction.

We are at an impasse. Complex descriptions of drug behaviour can only do so much, the clinician still needs to deliver a high dose of a drug to ensure therapeutic efficacy; and for some drugs, this dose happens to be very near that which causes kidney toxicity. Our focus is on one source of kidney toxicity, which emerges from drugs crystallising in the kidney (crystalluria), causing trauma and pain.

Synergising with our EPSRC funded study exploring the fundamentals of crystal growth in urine, this project aims to explore how simple small molecule inhibitors can facilitate these necessary high drug concentrations without inducing crystal growth.

We aim to deliberately modulate crystal growth behaviour by interrupting the bonding network in the crystals of these drugs. The student will build on our teams’ experience in crystal engineering to select a strategy to inhibit crystalluria for these drugs.

联系方式

A 2:1 honours degree, or international equivalent, in a relevant subject. A Masters with strong research training element would be highly advantageous.

This studentship funds applicants with a Home fee status (UK and EU applicants with pre-settled/settled status and meet the residency criteria). Successful international applicants will need to be able to pay the difference between home and international fees. More information：

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO900/phd-studentship-anti-crystal-engineering-to-prevent-drug-induced-nephrotoxicity

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