within biomedicine phd, md and mphil, we focus on exploring: the mechanisms of disease understanding how disease impacts lives utilising new diagnostic techniques utilising new therapeutic techniques developing new treatments as part of the mphil, md and phd biomedicine, you'll register with a university research institute. you'll have a structured programme of supervision and training. this is via our faculty of medical sciences graduate school. areas of research we undertake the following areas of research and offer mphil, phd and md supervision in: applied immunobiology (including organ and haematogenous stem cell transplantation) newcastle hosts one of the most comprehensive organ transplant programmes in the world. this clinical expertise has developed with the applied immunobiology and transplantation research group. we are currently investigating aspects of: the immunology of autoimmune diseases cancer therapy transplant rejection. we also have themes to understand the interplay of the inflammatory and anti-inflammatory. this is via responses by a variety of pathways. we also look at how these are manipulated for therapeutic purposes. a further research theme focuses on primary immunodeficiency diseases.