Tissue Repair Postgraduate Training Programme

Affiliated research centres

Five Research Centres across Edinburgh Medical School.

Aerial Little France

The Tissue Repair PhD programme involves 45 Principal Investigators based at five affiliated Research Centres across Edinburgh Medical School, at the Little France Campus in the south of Edinburgh.

Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences (CDBS)

Centre for Inflammation Research (CIR)

MRC Centre for Reproductive Health (CRH)

MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine (CRM)

University/BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Science (CVS)

Tissue Repair Research Topics Pie chart

Research topics 

Through the labs of the Tissue Repair affiliated supervisors students are exposed to a wide variety of research topics, experimental approaches, disease models and model organisms.

The pie chart on the right gives a flavour of the variety, depicting the main research topics of the labs that are participating in the programme. Our students thus have a wide choice when specifying their PhD research projects.

Facilities

Tissue Repair PhD programme students have access to a wide variety of state-of-the-art research facilities and equipment spread across the Edinburgh Medical School, as well as a wide range of support facilities and services provided by The University of Edinburgh.

Stem cells

Edinburgh Medical School research facilities accessible to Tissue Repair students include:

  • cell handling and culture suites
  • flow cytometry suites (incl FACS Aria)
  • imaging suites (incl high through-put spinning disk confocal platform and high-end multi-functional intra-vital imaging system)
  • in vivo, non-invasive imaging suite (incl MRI, ultrasound, optical and micro PET/CT)
  • pathogen-free animal and transgenic facilities (including rodents and zebrafish)
  • high-content cell assessment equipment (incl Operetta and Columbus Imaging systems)
  • physical fabrication equipment (incl an electrospinner and laser inscription system)
  • raman spectroscopy
  • bioinformatics
MRI imaging

Little France Campus

All five Tissue Repair programme affiliated Research Centres are located at the Little France Campus, 3 miles south of the city centre. Information on how to get there can be found on the page below.

Travelling to Little France Campus