Broad project area in brief
Resilience is the capacity to withstand or recover from a significant stressful event. The longer we live the more chance we have of experiencing these stressors which can impact our mental and physical health. However, these stressful challenges do not affect everyone equally and understanding why some people can recover from stressful events more quickly than others could provide us with novel interventions to help improve resilience, increase health span, and reduce the burden on the health service. While several ‘resilience’ proteins have been identified in both clinical and pre-clinical models, their mechanism of action is unclear.
The successful candidate will work with a multidisciplinary international team of supervisors with expertise in resilience and either gastroenterology, musculo-skeletal biology, neuroscience or oncology. The goal of the project is to use cutting-edge technologies to identify a panel of resilience genes, proteins and/or lipids in pre-clinical models of diseases relevant to the interests of the applicant and has the potential for clinical impact by promoting resilience in humans. Additional training in scientific writing and communication, project management and teamwork will be provided through the Centre for Lifelong Health.
Applicants to this broad project area should first decide the system that they would like to work on (e.g. CNS, cancer, gastrointestinal or musculo-skeletal) and second how they’d like to explore this (e.g. looking at the genes, or proteins or lipids that instil resilience in the organism).
Key Facts
Location Moulsecoomb campus, 香港最快开奖现场直播资料
Research centre Centre for Lifelong Health
Project themes Resilience, cancer, mental health, irritable bowel, musculo-skeletal, proteomics, lipidomics
Deadline Thursday 29 February 2024 at 16.00 GMT
Interviews March 2024