Last week was one of the busiest weeks since starting our PhDs so I’m afraid my blog is a little late this week! I will explain this a little more below though…
As my first blog I should really talk a little about my PhD project. The main focus of my project is to look at the metabolic profile of preterm infants and identify any prognostic markers that are associated with developing infants. I have a background in microbiology so I will be incorporating this into my project by investigating the host-microbial interactions also. I am very excited about my project (obviously) and hope that my previous knowledge/experience will come in handy. As one of my supervisors work at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, I head
over there once a week for journal club and other meetings. As Adam said, it’s great to have two groups with really helpful people with different expertise including clinicians, statisticians and pure scientists.
Anyway, back to our busy, caffeine filled week. So with half of us running experiments and the other half analysing data, we were also preparing ourselves for the first meeting with our funders. As STRATiGRAD students we are sponsored by a number of different funders who generously support our ‘blue-skies’ research. This first meeting was to introduce our projects and what we have been doing over the last six months. To say the least, we were a little worried (mainly due to the fact that we weren’t sure what to expect) but….
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