Regenerative Medicine

Our Regenerative Medicine PhD students at the University of Brighton are based within, and members of, our specialist research Centre for Regenerative Medicine and Devices.

University of Brighton has a long-standing reputation for pioneering, patient-driven treatments and technological innovation in regenerative medicine.

Key facts

As a Regenerative Medicine PhD student, you will benefit from

• being embedded in a key project theme within the Centre for Regenerative Medicine and Devices

• state-of-the-art research facilities, specific to your work, on the university’s Moulsecoomb campus. These include for example, geochemical and geotechnical laboratories, microscopy laboratories (optical and scanning electron microscopes), specialist microbial and water quality laboratories

• a supervisory team comprising two or sometimes three members of academic staff. Depending on your research specialism you may also have an additional external supervisor from another school, research institution, or industry.

• desk space and access to a desktop PC, either in one of the postgraduate offices on the sixth floor of the award-winning Cockcroft Building.

• access to a range of electronic resources via the university’s Online Library, as well as to the physical book and journal collections housed within the Aldrich Library and other campus libraries.

Research projects can encompass:

• the use of electrochemistry in biomedical research

• bacterial responses to biomaterials

• genomic analysis of gut microflora

• computational modelling of drug delivery systems and carbon capture by inorganic complexes