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Materials science; Chemical engineering; Bioresponsives; Orthopaedic applications

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Chemistry; Fluorescence spectroscopy and microscopy

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Development of novel, functional materials which have the potential to be used in bone tissue engineering applications.

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Chemical Engineering; Novel Lithographic Techniques, Structural Nanotechnology, Structured Carbon Nanotubes & Graphene-Based Devices.

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Chemistry; Biomedical Applications of Nanotechnology 

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Bioinorganic chemistry; supramolecular chemistry; metal-based drugs; DNA recognition; biological chemistry and chemical biology 

Chemistry; New molecular and nano sized  markers and probes: Development of functional metal and silica nano particles with targeting vectors

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Bioinorganic chemistry and de novo peptide design. In particular, the development of novel metallopeptides with potential therapeutic applications. 

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Development and application of mass spectrometry techniques for the characterisation of bio molecular and non-biomolecular structures 

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Chemistry; simulation of solids, surfaces and clusters; modelling cluster growth and dynamics; nanoalloy clusters; electronic structures of inorganic and organic solids

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Chemistry; nanoscience and nanotechnology; biomimetic materials for studies of cell behaviour; applications in medical imaging and catalysis 

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Supramolecular chemistry; nanoscale materials science for (i) electron beam resists; (ii) assembly of inorganic/ organic hybrid nanoparticles with novel electro-optic, structural and medicinal properties (gene delivery); (iii) liquid crystals; (iv) surfaces used in technological applications 

Supramolecular chemistry; ferrocene chemistry; photochromic systems; hydrogen-bonding receptors 

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Development of new materials and techniques for nanofabrication, novel devices and nanopatterned surfaces 

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Microsystems engineering, Micro-Sensor arrays, Energy Harvesting, Focused Ion Beam microfabrication techniques. 

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Bio-medical Engineering, computational modelling and mechanical testing of connective tissues

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Computer science; physiological measurements; optical imaging; image reconstruction; molecular imaging

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Computer science; Image Analysis, Mass Spectrometry Imaging, and Intelligent data analysis & optimisation

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Computer Science; Computational vision 

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Computer science; multi spectral imaging, physics of image formation, quantitative fluorescence microscopy, biomedical image analysis, modelling

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Computer science; statistical machine learning; data mining; high dimensional data spaces; probabilistic modelling of data; Bayesian inference 

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Artificial intelligence; machine learning; neural networks; evolutionary computation; bioinformatics; computational biology; intelligent methods for pattern recognition; molecular biology, computational models of dynamical systems

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Cardiorespiratory science; actin dynamics; megakaryocytes; visualising the dynamics of proteins in live platelets for study of the cytoskeleton; actin nodules

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Medicine; immune senescence, chronic inflammation, leukaemia

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Medicine; Neurodegeneration and repair of the damaged and diseased central nervous system

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Medicine; haemodynamics, vascular biology, blood rheology

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Dentistry; ultrasonics, bio-effects; imaging of vibration characteristics; biological effects of low-frequency (kHz) ultrasonic instruments 

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Cardiovascular sciences and cellular pharmacology; physiological and pathological features and roles of platelets in activation by glycoprotein receptors; actin polymerisation; angiogenesis; cancer metastasis; major organ dysfunction; stem cell recruitment

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Child health; functional Imaging and metabolomics of childhood cancer; magnetic resonance spectroscopy metabolite profiles for characterising childhood tumours  

Stem cell biology; processes causing failures of stem cell regulation 

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Mechanistic cellular and genetic toxicology, toxic genomics and nanotoxicology in relation to both human health and the health of organisms in the aquatic environment. 

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Inflammation and inflammatory disease; predictive and therapeutic approaches to the treatment of inflammatory arthritis including roles of stromal fibroblast cells in regulating the switch to persistence 

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Cardiovascular sciences; novel molecular mechanisms of heart disease; controlled clinical trials to translate pathophysiological insights into new therapies for heart disease; the evaluation and improvement of clinical management of patients with heart disease, especially cardiomyopathies, heart failure, and arrhythmias 

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Dentistry; applied fractal principles to study morphological complexity; image segmentation; quantitative measurement and focusing

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Reproduction, genes and development; molecular mechanisms of transcription regulation in the vertebrate embryo; comparative and functional genomic tools to address the interaction specificity of transcription factors

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Surface interactions between mammalian cells and bacteria and biomaterials – especially titanium and hydroxyapatite, for bone repair and the prevention of infection

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Biomedical materials science with a particular interest in the behaviour of materials in physiological environments

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Inflammatory and metabolic mechanisms, skeletal muscle dysfunction and atrophy in chronic disease and understanding the functional role of non-coding RNAs in mediating inflammatory responses. 

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Neurobiochemistry and neuromonitoring of acute brain injury, early markers of tissue damage for the prevention of secondary injury after trauma and subarachnoid haemorrhage, patient stratification and drug discovery. 

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Dental pulp and bone cell biology, mesenchymal stem cells in tissue repair and regeneration, nerve repair and neuronal stem cell differentiation, therapeutic ultrasound and oral cancer.

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Tumour Immunology and Immune/Gene Therapy

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Novel mechanisms of heart disease and performs translational research towards mechanism-based therapies of cardiovascular diseases. 

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Molecular mechanisms of ion transport in the heart; heart failure, arrhythmias and cardiorenal syndrome.

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