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The program is offering at least five fully funded PhD studentships commencing in October 2022. Applicants should identify a group leader whose area of research falls into one of the following themes:
- Neurosciences and Mental Health
- Infections and Immunity
- Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Disease
- Data Science for Health
Applicants will be expected to approach the group leader, and agree on a suitable research proposal for consideration.
Students on the SCM DTP-MR will complete 2 rotations in the first two terms. These projects will be in different disciplinary areas related to your field of research, and will allow refinement of your PhD project in line with your emerging research interests as the programme progresses. The SCM DTP-MR studentships must be based in a department, unit or Institute of the School of Clinical Medicine. Please refer here.
You will need to successfully complete the first year to be able to progress into your second year of studies.
This is an annual competition, and the opening and closing dates will be advertised on FindaPhD.com and on the SCM DTP-MR website. For further details on the application process, please refer to here.
In addition, five Industrial MRC CASE (iCASE) studentships will be available for doctoral study at Cambridge, to start in October 2022. These studentships allow postgraduate research students to receive high quality research training, with the additional benefit of working closely with an industrial partner. These collaborations will provide MRC iCASE students with unique technical and transferable skills, as well as an insight into how commercial science is conducted, and entrepreneurial opportunities.
The industry partner specifies a research project that will be of importance to them, and provides a placement at their premises for the student of at least 3 months, together with an additional non-academic supervisor. Projects for MRC iCASE studentships will be advertised in Oct 2022, and can be based in either the School of Clinical Medicine, or the School of Biological Science. For further details on the application process, please refer to the MRC DTP website.
Each studentship (MRC iCASE and SCM DTP-MR), is fully-funded for four years with a stipend of £18,000 p.a., and includes all course fees, plus a research training support grant.
Open Days
The Postgraduate Virtual Open Day usually takes place at the beginning of November. It’s a great opportunity to ask questions to admissions staff and academics, explore the Colleges virtually, and to find out more about courses, the application process and funding opportunities. Visit the Postgraduate Open Day page for more details.
Departments
This course is advertised in the following departments:
- Department of Biochemistry
- Department of Genetics
- Department of Pathology
- Department of Pharmacology
- Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
- Department of Plant Sciences
- Department of Psychology
- Department of Zoology
- Department of Veterinary Medicine
- Babraham Research Institute
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry
- Department of Clinical Neurosciences
- Department of Haematology
- Department of Medical Genetics
- Department of Medicine
- Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- Department of Oncology
- Department of Paediatrics
- Department of Psychiatry
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care
- Department of Radiology
- Department of Surgery