Graduate Entry Medicine & Health research areas

  • Musculoskeletal repair and frailty
  • Diabetes, obesity, chronic kidney disease, hypertension, vascular disease
  • Pancreatic disease, & gastrointestinal surgery
  • Reproductive biology: uterine physiology, polycystic ovarian syndrome, endometriosis
  • Paediatric pharmacology:drug efficacy & safety in children, non-invasive methods of studying drug metabolism
  • Rehabilitation & ageing: neuro-rehab, aids & devices and multidisciplinary work in complex severe disability
  • Medical education research group: leading UK research on graduate entry medicine and prosecuting local research to provide sound evidence for development and change in the Nottingham GEM programme

Current recent research project titles

  • Access and equity in genetic services: what can we learn from new national screening for common inherited disorders
  • Metabolic & haemodynamic interactions between insulin resistance, endothelial function and cardiovascular disease
  • Unlicensed and off label drug use in children
  • Endometrial ion channels as determinants of fertility
  • Mechanisms underlying the electrical quiescence of pregnancy
  • Pancreatic Disease
  • Metabolic aspects of peritoneal dialysis
  • Gene Networks Regulating Muscle Protein Degradation
  • Assessing needs and developing services for people with chronic and progressive disability
  • Sensitivity and responsiveness of human muscle protein turnover to essential amino acids in the elderly and patients with chronic disease resulting in sarcopenia
  • Human whole body fuel and protein metabolism, especially that in skeletal muscle and bone
  • Chronic kidney disease from paediatric to elderly and with early stage CKD, through to dialysis requiring CKD 5
  • Angiogenesis pathways in diabetic microvascular disease and peripheral vascular disease
  • Cold intolerance and Raynauds Phenomenon


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  2. Apply for this research opportunity

General enquiries

Key Facts
  • Patient-orientated research in partnership with the local Trust is strong
  • The musculoskeletal research, headed by Professor M Rennie, is internationally renowned


General research enquiries

Kelly Mitchell
Postgraduate Research Administrator
School of Graduate Entry Medicine and Health
The University of Nottingham
Royal Derby Hospital
Uttoxeter Road
Derby
UK
DE22 3DT

t: +44 (0)1332 724 676

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