About Medical Sciences Phd/mphil in Bangor University

Medical Sciences with specialisations in:

• Rheumatic diseases
• Inflammatory arthritis
• Systemic lupus erythematosus
• Behavioural neurology
• Sensorimotor integration (on eye and limb movements)
• Higher order sensory processing
• Neuro-ophthalmology
• Neuro-rehabilitation
• Cardiac imaging using fMRI
• Developing the use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Rendering
• Effects of antipsychotic medication on neutrophil morphology and oxidative stress
• Use of Quantitive Structural Activity Relations in cellular responses to antipsychotics
• History of Medicine
• Parkinson’s disease
• Dementia and neurodegenerative diseases
• Evidence based healthcare
• Translation of research evidence to practice
• Patient reported outcome following hip replacement surgery
• Smell and taste pathophysiology, assessment and management
• Assessment of Endoscopic Sinus Surgery
• Transnasal fibreoptic flexible laryngo oesophagoscopy
• Dizziness assessment and treatment
• Catabolic effects of rheumatic diseases and effect on muscle mass and function
• Autoimmune rheumatic diseases - prognosis, and assessment of treatment
• Assessment of novel anti rheumatic treatment
• Respiratory Medicine
• Orthopaedic surgery
• Sports and exercise medicine
• Cardiac imaging and intervention
• Cortical processes and cardiovascular
• output
• Cardiology and nuclear medicine
• Clinical research into the assessment and development of new anti-cancer drugs
• Assessment of the effects of chemotherapy
• Intensive care medicine
• Chronic disease patient care
• Cardio-vascular risk factors in the severely mentally ill
• Genetic predictors of antidepressant response
• Mental illness in primary care patients
• Diabetes and vascular disease

Basic Medical Research:

• The genetics and molecular aeteology of cancer development / oncogenesis
• Molecular mechanisms of disease related DNA repair pathways
• The molecular basis of the cell division cycle (using human cells and model systems)
• The molecular basis of cancer drug resistance
• Molecular mechanisms of chromosomal translocations Molecular regulation of telomere biology
• The role of human germ line genes in cancer development
• The identification of new cancer-specific drug targets
• The development of patient stratification strategies
• Human stem cell biology
• Human cancer stem cell biology
• The molecular basis for human gut homeostasis
• Molecular cancer immunology
• Molecular autoimmunity 

A list of academic staff within the School of Medical Sciences can be found here, alternatively, contact medsciences@bangor.ac.uk with an outline of your research proposal, including actual or prospective funding, and an appropriate academic will be identified within the school.

Academic qualification equivalents

• Good grades in Bachelor degree and a Masters degree. Previous research experience is essential.

English language requirements (one of the below):

• IELTS: Academic 6.0 or 6.5 This must include a minimum of 5.5 in Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing.
• PTE: 56 (51) - 62(58).

Bangor University Highlights

Bangor University Cost of Attendance

Bangor University Tuition Fee

Fee for the available programs varies for different courses as per their level and type. Tuition fee for some of the popular courses has been compiled as follows:

Undergraduate Courses

Graduate Courses (2020 intake)

Cost of living

International students are highly advised to have an idea of the expenses required to survive in a foreign land. While it is difficult to reveal an exact amount required, a rough estimated amount required for accommodation, travel and stay for aspirants looking to study in the UK is around 900 to 1100 GBP, per month for a single student living in Bangor. 

A detailed list of expenses would look something like as has been tabulated below: