Participants

2025 Research Scholarships and Expeditions Participants

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Abdelrahman Ghonaim

  • The CARP Study
  • MBBS (NUMed)

Ahmad Ilyasa Basheer Ahmad

  • Aetiology of Bone Tumours in Children and Young Adults
  • MBBS (NUMed)

Anesh Tahir

  • Assessing the Cost of Hydrogen Import vs Local Production in the UK
  • MEng Hons Chemical Engineering

Beth Rogers

  • A Physiologically Relevent In Vitro Gut Barrier Model
  • MRes Medical and Molecular Biosciences, intercalating MBBS student

Carmen Benbow, Max Liu, Rowan Dawson and Lydia Loughran

  • Investigating the environmental and anthropogenic interactions in the mangrove and dune systems of the Preguiça’s River estuary
  • BSc Hons Physical Geography and BSc Hons Geography

Eleanor Sparke

  • Optical Fibers for Advanced Temperature and Strain Sensing
  • MPhys Physics with Astrophysics

Ellie Shambrook, Emma Ashwell, Oliver Davies and Kaitlyn Paton

  • Interdisciplinary Approaches to Perceptualizing Intangible Phenomena through Sound and Listening
  • MPhys Physics with Astrophysics, BA Hons Music and BA Hons Fine Art

Ethan Shanks

  • Jewish Impact on the Development of the Team Valley Industrial Estate
  • BA Hons History with Placement

Fayrouz Maher Kamel Elshenawy

  • Exploring the usability of wearable digital technology to monitor medication adherence and mobility in people with Parkinson’s Disease via a survey questionnaire
  • MBBS (NUMed)

Finlay Cromack

  • Investigating the prevalence and severity of post-burns complications amongst different Fitzpatrick skin types and first aid administrations
  • MBBS

Hannah Bevan

  • Risk factors associated with longitudinal poor health outcomes in Parkinson’s Disease
  • BSc Hons Psychology with Professional Placement

Harry Abel

  • Enhancing the National Early Warning Score 2 Using Observational Patient Data and Machine Learning
  • MBBS

Heather McGregor

  • A Study of Symmetric Unions and the Knot Invariant
  • BSc Hons Mathematics

Hoiling Tang

  • Investigating the significance of apicoplast RNA polymerase gene duplications in Malaria through immunofluorescence microscopy
  • BSc Hons Biomedical Sciences

Joshua Foxton

  • Hydrodynamic Ion Transport in 2D Nanochannels
  • MPhys Physics with Honours

Kathryn Smith

  • The Intersectional Identities of Queer Creatives in Newcastle
  • BA Hons Geography

Kate Eley

  • Development and optimisation of a liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry assay for the qauntification of fludarabine in human Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
  • BSc Hons Pharmacology

Kieran Gill

  • Cognitive function in older adults with myocardial infarction
  • MBBS

Laurence Breen

  • Assessing the effects of Brexit on British Artists in European Music Festivals
  • BSc Marketing

Leah Kelly

  • Detection of GD2 negative cells in bone marrow from patients with high-risk neuroblastoma using machine learning
  • MSci Biomedical Sciences

Lee Chak Hei Jeremey

  • Shape Memory Alloy Compositing using Gallium-gold putty for use in medical implants
  • MBBS

Lucy Bulmer

  • The Perceived Impact of Financial Constraints on Academic Performance Among Medical Students
  • MBBS

Mollie O’Connor

  • Why Students use AI: Exploring the Motivating Factors in Students’ use of Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • BSc Hons Psychology with Professional Placement

Muhammad Mustafa Khwaja

  • Engineering an Protein Aggregate Model to Study Autophagy Pathways in Human Cells
  • MBBS (NUMed)

Muzuki Ueda and Tom Adamson

  • Developing the evidence base for the specialised foundation programme: a mixed methods study
  • MRes Neuroscience and MBBS

New Zealand Expedition

  • A geomorphological analysis of the Aoraki/Mount Cook region
  • BSc Hons Physical Geography and BSc Hons Geography

Ong Paul Sherng and Lim Xin Yan

  • Development and Evaluation of Prototype Transdisciplinary Biophysical 3D Visualisation Resources for Enhancing Medical and Physics Interprofessional Student Learning
  • MBBS (NUMed)

Othman Zuhir

  • Lived Experiences of Typically Developing Adolescents with Siblings Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Malaysia
  • MBBS (NUMed)

Reece Browne

  • Investigating Neutrophil Plasticity in Circulation: An analysis of Phenotypic Differentiation in Response to Sepsis Patient Serum
  • MBBS

Reema Haifa Hameed Sulthan

  • Clozapine Therapy Optimisation: A Comprehensive Review of its Pharmacokinetics to Guide Modelling Strategies
  • MBBS

Sadif Rahman

  • The Syntax of Codeswitching in the Bangla Verbal Domain
  • BA Hons English Language and Literature

Shi Yuan Ng

  • Uncovering the key steps for GALK1 allosteric inhibition
  • BSc Hons Biochemistry

Tess Baker

  • Development of a Stereodivergent Route to Glycosylated Amino Acids
  • MChem with Honours in Medicinal Chemistry

Thomas Darron

  • Automatic farmland biodiversity monitoring of farmland birds through AI
  • BSc Hons Zoology

Win Hay Mar

  • Ultrasound-paired Surface Electromyography as a Non-invasive Tool to Assess Muscle Structure and Function
  • MBBS (NUMed)