Fully funded PhD project on biostatistical methods to improve early cancer detection in the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh to be supervised by Prof Ruth King, Dr Tom Bird and Dr Vanda Inacio.
The PhD project is concerned with the early detection of liver cancer, which is the second most common cause of cancer related death. Detection of early onset of cancer is important for treatment and reduction of mortality rate; however, at this stage it is often asymptomatic. Surveillance via imaging alone is suboptimal and is often supplemented with serum biomarkers. Previous work for localised Lothian data indicated that individual-based changes of biomarkers help in the early detection of Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Additional larger datasets will be considered and biostatistical techniques developed to optimise and validate automated serum biomarker analysis to improve early diagnoses.
Interested applicants should e-mail both Prof Ruth King ([log in to unmask]) and Dr Vanda Inacio ([log in to unmask]) with a note of interest, including a CV, before the 14th July. Due to funding reasons this PhD project is limited to UK applicants - under the EPSRC definition of eligibility of UK residents.
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