Last chance - Wellcome Trust 4 Year PhD Studentship Programme

Application deadline: 5^th December 2019. Interviews to take place in January 2020.
Start date: 28^th September 2020.

PhD Studentships in the areas of Genomic Epidemiology and Public Health Genomics

This is a brand new programme for Leicester, with support from the Wellcome Trust, which can support up to eight students per year (5 intakes). Studentship projects will be available in the following areas:

1. Genomics for drug development & pharmacogenetics: drug target discovery, target validation, drug repurposing, enabled with established partnerships with leading pharmaceuticals.
2. Genomics for precision medicine in underserved populations: unique opportunities for novel research with our collaborators in South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Brazil and India.
3. Genetically informed causal inference in epidemiology: development of methods exploiting genetic data and relatedness to strengthen causal inference in observational research.
4. Ethical, legal and social implications of genomics and genomic epidemiology studies: bringing together our expertise in sociology, psychology, heath services research, medical law, and ethics. Genetically informed causal inference in epidemiology (Lead: Frank Dudbridge): development of methods exploiting genetic data and relatedness to strengthen causal inference in observational research.

Meet the Theme Leads

There will be unique opportunities to undertake research placements in Industry with partners: AstraZeneca; Genentech; GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer.

There are also opportunities for students to work with partners in lower-middle income countries.

This is a flexible trainee centred programme with a wide range of skills development, both subject specific and career enhancing.

There will also be 2-3 places for students to take a 1 year Masters (with UK fee waiver) followed by a fully funded 4 year PhD. Further details can be found here.

Available projects

Please see details of available projects

Alternatively, you may propose your own project. In this case we would strongly encourage you to co-develop a project with proposed supervisor(s) in advance of your application.

Further information about the Wellcome Trust PhD Programme can be found here.