Students who joined the Row Fogo Centre Research as part of their final year study programme research projects. At the Row Fogo Centre for Research into Ageing and the Brain, we aim to nurture a new generation of world-class researchers in the area of SVDs. Students are offered the experience to work as part of our professional research teams, and deliver results contributing to scientific discoveries as part of their Honours project, futher publishd in leading scientific journals. Current students Academic year 2021 / 2022 Alba Saenz de Villaverde - MBCHB Medicine Project title: "Neuroimaging of nasal and paranasal sinus inflammation", supervised by Dr Maria Valdes-Hernandez Yufeng Zhang - BEng in Electronics and Computer Science Project title: "Machine Learning for Neuroimaging Assessment of Stroke Brain Lesions" supervised by Dr Chen Qin (School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh) and Dr Maria Valdez-Hernandez Anna Beletski - MscR in Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Repair Project title: "Where is ATP11B localised in brain endothelial cells and what are the effects of knockout in endothelial cells?", supervised by Professor Anna Williams Publication: Loss of the heterogeneous expression of flippase ATP11B leads to cerebral small vessel disease in a normotensive rat model Publication link Hazel Mason -BMedSci Health Sciences (Honours) Project title: "Cerebral Small Vessel Disease in educational videos", - supervised by Dr Maria Valdes-Hernandez Manyi Yang - MSc in Biomedical Sciences Project title: "Pathophysiology-Symptoms Correspondence Throughout the Continuum of Progression to Vascular Dementia for the Development of a Personalized Digital Monitoring Solution", supervised by Dr Maria Valdes-Hernandez Yongshuo Zong - Centre for Doctoral Training in Biomedical Artificial Intelligence (MScR) Project title: "Continual Learning for Efficient Assessment of Brain Lesions in MRI" - supervised by Dr Maria Valdes-Hernandez and Dr Chen Qin (School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh) Kristin Arblaster - BSc (Hons) Reproductive Biology Project title: "Cerebral Small Vessel Disease in education videos", supervised by Dr Maria Valdes-Hernandez Maude Adams - Bsc (Hons) Medical Sciences Project title: “An investigation of the longitudinal relationship between renal function and brain imaging markers of small vessel disease”, supervised by Dr Susana Muñoz Maniega and Dr Francesca Chappell David Rosie - BMedSci Health Sciences Honours Project title: "Cerebral Small Vessel Disease in educational videos", supervised by Dr Maria Valdes-Hernandez Maria Hernández Martínez - Bsc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences Project title: "Are the Brain Health Index and the White Matter Damage Metric sensitive indicators of cognitive decline?", supervised by Dr Maria Valdes-Hernandez Hannah Smith - Year 1 of the Wellcome Trust Translational PhD Programme Project title: “Retinopathy in SVD and relationships with WMH and PVS”, supervised by Dr Stewart Wiseman, Dr Tom MacGillivray, Dr Charlene Hamid; additional scientific support from Dr Fergus Doubal, Dr Maria Valdes-Hernandez and Professor Joanna Wardlaw. Wellcome Trust Translational Neuroscience PhD Programme website (external link) Past students View our previous students who completed their research projects with the SVD Research, including project titles, supervisors and associated publications. Academic year 2020 / 2021 Students who joined the SVD Research to complete their Honours projects between January - May 2021 Academic year 2019 / 2020 Short-term students who joined the Row Fogo Centre in the Academic Year 2019/2020. This article was published on 2024-06-04
