Overview :
- Applications are invited for 4-year PhD studentship based in the Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge and the new AstraZeneca Discovery Centre at Cambridge.
- The student will be working on a collaborative project jointly supervised by Professor Zoe Kourtzi at Department of Psychology Cambridge in collaboration with AstraZeneca’s Neuroscience (Dr Keith Tan, Dr Andrew Lowe) and Data Science & AI (Dr Philip Teare, Dr Gayathri Mohankumar) teams and will have the opportunity to work across the two sites.
- The project, entitled ‘Multimodal AI-guided tools for early prediction of disease progression in neurodegenerative disorders’ is in the field of AI for Neuroscience that has generated much excitement in both academia and industry.
- The project focuses on the development and implementation of AI-guided approaches for early prediction of neurodegenerative disorders.
- In particular, we aim to develop an innovative data-driven approach that capitalises on state-of-the-art algorithms from artificial intelligence (foundational models) to mine multimodal data from polygenic risk scores, MRI scans, biomarkers and cognitive tasks for early prediction of disease progression.
- Using this cross-disciplinary approach, we will develop AI-guided tools that predict individualised disease trajectories.
- We will optimise and validate these tools using large-scale research data and real-world data from clinical trials to assess their efficacy in identifying the right patients for the right treatment.
Deadline :
- 20 November 2023.
Apply :
- Full details of the University’s entrance requirements and scholarships are specified on the following link: https://www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/
