This industrial Collaborative Award in Science and Engineering (iCASE) studentship is offered by Warwick’s MRC Funded Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP). The training program involves an exciting one-year MSc in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research and then a three-year PhD project, co-supervised by experts from both academia and industry. The student will benefit from a comprehensive training programme that offers advanced workshops, career planning, transferable skills training and cohort learning events and conferences with ~50 other PhD students.
We strive to create a supportive and inclusive environment to help students achieve their best potential, through promoting equality and challenging discrimination. We want our students to feel heard and valued for their hard work and particularly welcome and encourage applications from minoritised groups that are under-represented in academia.
Project summary:
In collaboration with Janssen Pharmaceuticals, this PhD project will address important questions in the optimal design of clinical development programmes in oncology. You will develop statistical modelling methods that identify the main sources of uncertainty in oncology clinical trials. These will formally incorporate stakeholder views, including clinical trial statistical properties and patient preferences via multi-attribute utility functions. This will lead to strategies, including non-parametric Bayesian approaches, for optimal dynamic data-dependent updating of oncology clinical development programmes. As such the project offers the successful candidate an opportunity to undertake exciting and important research and development at the interface between academia and a large pharmaceutical company to optimise cancer treatment. The project would suit a student with a strong undergraduate degree in statistics, mathematics or related subject and who possesses a working understanding and interest in biology or biomedical science.
PROGRAMME CONTENT
Year One l MSc
Students undertake a series of taught modules, including Frontier Techniques in Biomedical Research, Physical Biology of the Cell, Microscopy and Imaging, Mathematical Modelling, Mass Spectrometry, and two laboratory-based research projects.
Years Two, Three and Four l PhD project
Student support
Students receive outstanding mentoring, careers and pastoral support throughout the programme.
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS, FUNDING AND HOW TO APPLY
Entry requirements
Candidates must have:
- An excellent undergraduate degree (2:i or above) in statistics, mathematics or a related discipline.
- A background in, or a working understanding of, biology, biomedicine or biochemistry.
How to apply
If you are interested in joining our DTP community, please apply by 5 June 2022. Interviews will take place in the week commencing 25 July 2022.
For further information please see warwick.ac.uk/mrcdtp.