Stratified Medicine Graduate Training Programme in Systems Medicine and Spectroscopic Profiling (STRATiGRAD) PhD Studentship Opportunities

Division of Integrated Systems Medicine and Digestive Diseases
Department of Surgery & Cancer
Imperial College London

As part of the Stratified Medicine Graduate Training Programme in Systems Medicine and Spectroscopic Profiling (STRATiGRAD). We are looking to recruit three PhD students to focus on metabolic profiling based projects in partnership with Industry.

STRATiGRAD PhD opportunities are funded in partnership with the MRC, NIHR and various industrial sources. The programme embodies a “blue-skies” approach to research with an analytical and modelling focus. Projects will be supervised by the Director of the STRATiGRAD Programme and an Industrial Scientist. The Division of Integrated Systems Medicine and Digestive Diseases is exceptionally well-equipped with state-of-the-art analytical platforms dedicated to metabolic analysis for patient journey phenotyping, stratified medicine, molecular epidemiology and real-time diagnostics.

Applications are invited for PhD projects exploring one of the following themes:

For the Servier Studentship:

• Development of a microbiomic functionality index
• Microbiome and drug metabolism
• Chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and the microbiome
• Gut microbial functionality as a modulator of individual colorectal cancer risk in response to the diet

For the two Nestle Studentships (In collaboration with Professor Gary Frost, Head of Nutrition Research:

• Microbiome across generations and the impact of dietary fibre
• Microbiome and Children
• Microbiome and nutritional driven metabolite profiles

These studentships will leverage the world-leading analytical capacity of the Division and advance its informatics and imaging capacity to provide a multi-window view into the microbe-host relationship and its contribution to health and disease.

Applicants must be Home OR EU nationals with leave to remain in the UK, and should hold or expect to obtain a Master’s degree in a relevant scientific discipline, ESPECIALLY biology, chemistry, biochemistry, or computational/mathematical sciences, as well as a first or upper-second class honours science degree or equivalent. All Imperial College PhD entry requirements must be met (see www3.imperial.ac.uk/entryrequirements/graduate).

Awards will cover tuition tuition fees at the Home/EU rates, a tax-free stipend of £18,500 per annum and project consumable costs.

To apply, please send a covering letter stating your project preference, full CV and contact details of two referees, one of whom must be academic, to Dr Isabel Garcia Perez (i.garcia-perez@imperial.ac.uk).

The deadline for applications is Friday 29st June 2018. Short-listed candidates will be informed by email and it is expected that interviews will take place the week commencing 23rd July 2018.