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Three 2017 PhDs recognised as exceptional

Posted by on 20 December 2017 | Comments

The 2017 academic year has been a successful one for Microbiology and Immunology PhD students, with not one but three completed works being added to the Division of Health Sciences' List of Exceptional PhD theses, out of a total of nine from across the division. Congratulations to Dr Morad Remy Muhsin, Dr Adrian Patterson and Dr Kiel Hards.

The list comprises only those doctoral candidates whose research is assessed by examiners as being of an exceptional standard in every respect - research content, originality, quality of expression and accuracy of presentation - and is amongst the top 10% of theses examined.

View the full list of the division's exception theses

Dr Morad Remy Muhsin

Tumour extracellular vesicles in cancer metastasis & thrombosis
Primary Supervisor: Associate Professor Alexander McLellan

Dr Adrian Patterson

Multiple pathways regulate CRISPR-Cas immunity
Primary Supervisor: Associate Professor Peter Fineran

Dr Kiel Hards

Fundamental and applied investigations into mycobacterial bioenergetics
Primary Supervisor: Professor Gregory Cook