MBPhD Thesis Prize
The Cordwainers supports medical related causes linked to its original benefactors. Until 2020, it funded an annual award for the best MBPhD thesis.
Cordwainers Prize: MBPhD Thesis of the Year
2020
Ryan W.S. Wee
Hippocampal circuits for the state-dependent control of feeding behaviour
Supervisor: Dr Andrew F. MacAskill
2019
Richard D. Bartlett
Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine to repair the spinal cord
Supervisor: Dr James B. Phillips
Sam Ereira
A neurocomputational account of self-other distinction: from cell to society
Supervisor: Prof. Ray Dolan
2018
Vishal Rawji
Impulsivity in Parkinson's disease and Tourette syndrome, and human motor decision making
Supervisor: Prof John C Rothwell
2017
Sophie Adler
Cortical morphology and MRI signal intensity analysis in paediatric epilepsy
Supervisor: Prof. Torsten Baldeweg
2016
Rafael Di Marco Barros
Tissue-Specific Butyrophilin-like Molecules are Master Regulators of Intraepithelial γδ T cell Composition
Supervisor: Prof. Adrian Hayday
2015
Fergus O'Farrell
Pericyte-mediated Regulation of Cerebral and Coronary Blood Flow in Health and Disease
Supervisor: Prof. David Attwell
2014
Adam P. Levine
The genetics of inflammatory bowel disease in extended multiplex Ashkenazi Jewish kindreds
Supervisor: Prof. Tony Segal
2013
Christopher A McKinnon
The role of the ubiquitin-proteasome system in prion disease pathogenesis
Supervisor: Prof. Sarah Tabrizi
2012
Anna M. Rose
Transcriptional regulation of PRPF31: the role of variable gene expression in determining phenotype in retinitis pigmentosa
Supervisor: Prof. Shomi Bhattacharya
2011
Sean B. Knight
Lentiviral Vectors for Gene Therapy
Supervisor: Prof. Mary Collins
Alvin J X Lee
An Investigation of Chromosomal Instability Survival Mechanisms in Cancer
Supervisor: Prof. Charles Swanton
2010
Alex Rossdeutsch
The Role of Thymosin B4 in Vascular Development
Supervisor: Prof. Paul Riley
2009
Catherine Hyams
The role of the Streptococcus pneumoniae capsule in interactions with Coaplement and Phagocytes
Supervisor: Prof. Jeremy Brown
Panagiotis Kyrtatos
Cell Targeting and Imaging using Magnetic Nanoparticles
Supervisor: Prof. Mark Lythgoe
2008
Abhishek Das
Constraints on T Cell responsiveness in Chronic Hepatitis B Virus infection
Supervisor: Prof. Mala Maini
About the MBPhD
MBPhD
The MBPhD enables UCL MBBS students to conduct a major research project and gain a PhD.
