Sovan Sarkar

Dr.

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Dr Sarkar is interested in supervising doctoral research in the following areas:

The role and regulation of autophagy in human embryonic stem cells and in differentiated adult cell types
The molecular mechanisms of mammalian autophagy in its role in cellular homeostasis, neurodegeneration, aging and metabolism
Mechanisms of cellular degeneration and proteostasis in disease-relevant human cell types derived from disease-specific induced pluripotent stem cells
Drug discovery in human disease-affected cell types derived from disease-specific induced pluripotent stem cells

20022024

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Viktor I Korolchuk

  • Northern Institute for Cancer Research

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Rudolf Jaenisch

  • Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Yosef Buganim

  • Hebrew University
  • The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School

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Malkiel A Cohen

  • Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

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Gaurav Sahay

  • Oregon State University

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Haoyi Wang

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Farah H Siddiqi

  • University of Cambridge

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Elsje G. Otten

  • Northern Institute for Cancer Research

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Daniel G Anderson

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Joerg Gsponer

  • Michael Smith Laboratories

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Tetsushi Kataura

  • Northern Institute for Cancer Research

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Georgina W. Hughes

  • University of Birmingham

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Lucia Sedlackova

  • Northern Institute for Cancer Research

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Luiz F.S.E. Silva

  • University of Birmingham

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Jorge Torresi

  • University of Birmingham

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Margot Jarrige

  • I Stem
  • Université Paris-Saclay

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Graham R Smith

  • Newcastle University
  • Northern Institute for Cancer Research

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Xin Wang

  • University of Manchester

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Thiago Varga

  • University of Birmingham

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Sergey Trushin

  • Mayo Clinic

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Zeyn W Green-Thompson

  • University of Leeds

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Ramnik J Xavier

  • Harvard Medical School
  • Broad Institute

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Axel Sciauvaud

  • I Stem
  • Université Paris-Saclay

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Malgorzata Rak

  • Université Paris Descartes

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Shupei Zhang

  • Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

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Katherine Winter

  • University of Birmingham

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Erich R. Kuechler

  • Michael Smith Laboratories

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John A. Webster

  • Cool-Grind Technologies

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Jian Wang

  • Second People's Hospital of Chengdu

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Alejandro Huerta-Uribe

  • University of Glasgow

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Kevin J. Kauffman

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Oliver D K Maddocks

  • Cancer Research UK
  • University of Glasgow

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Gamze Kocak

  • University of Birmingham

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Laetitia Aubry

  • I Stem
  • Université Paris-Saclay

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Lee D Hamilton

  • University of Stirling
  • Deakin University

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Wei Li

  • Rolls Royce PLC
  • Institute of Education
  • Newcastle University
  • Tsinghua University
  • Department of Medicine

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Fu-Cheng Lin

  • National Institute of Occupational Health
  • Norwegian University of Sport and Physical Education

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Daniel R Moore

  • University of Toronto

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Andrew M Shaw

  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

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