Wellcome Funded Four-year PhD Studentships in Science

This scheme offers graduates outstanding training in scientific research.

Across the UK, Wellcome’s Four-year PhD Studentship Programmes are now recruiting.

You can apply for a studentship on one of Wellcome's four-year programmes if you're a graduate or student who has, or expects to obtain, at least an upper second-class degree (or equivalent for EU and overseas candidates) in a relevant subject.

Candidates with other relevant qualifications or research experience may also be eligible.

Who can apply

You can apply for a studentship on one of Wellcome's four-year programmes if you're a graduate or student who has, or expects to obtain, at least an upper second-class degree (or equivalent for EU and overseas candidates) in a relevant subject.

Candidates with other relevant qualifications or research experience may also be eligible.

For more information about eligibility, contact the individual programmes listed in the 'How to apply' section on our webpage.

For more information, contact the individual programmes listed in the 'How to apply' section on the Wellcome website.

Programmes

Health Data Research UK
The HDRUK/Turing Wellcome PhD Programme in Health Data Science

King's College London
Advanced Therapies for Regenerative Medicine
Neuro-Immune Interactions in Health and Disease

Queen Mary University of London
Health Data in Practice: Human-centred science

University College London
Optical Biology
UCL Wellcome 4-year PhD in Mental Health Science

University of Bristol
Dynamic Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular, Genetic and Lifecourse Epidemiology

University of Cambridge

Wellcome Four Year PhD Programme in Stem Cell Biology and Medicine

University of Dundee
Dundee Training Programme in Integrated Molecular, Cellular and Translational Biology

University of East Anglia
EDESIA: Plants, Food and Health: a cross-disciplinary PhD programme from Crop to Clinic

University of Edinburgh
Hosts, Pathogens and Global Health
Integrative Cell Mechanisms (iCM
One Health Models of Disease: Science, Ethics and Society
Translational Neuroscience 2 (TN2)

University of Glasgow
Integrative Infection Biology - Mechanisms and Control of Disease

University of Leicester
Genomic Epidemiology and Public Health Genomics

University of Manchester
Immunomatrix in Complex Disease (ICD)

University of Nottingham
Drug Discovery and Team Science

University of Oxford
Cellular Structural Biology
Chemistry in Cells – New Technologies to Probe Complex Biology and Medicine
Genomic Medicine and Statistics

University of Sheffield
Wellcome Trust Doctoral Training Centre in Public Health, Economics and Decision Science (PHEDS)