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

PhD Studentship Opportunities in systems medicine and artificial intelligence

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 two PhD students to focus on systems medicine and artificial intelligence based projects in partnership with AstraZeneca.

These STRATiGRAD PhD opportunities are funded in partnership with the MRC, NIHR, AstraZeneca and other industrial sources. The Programme embodies a “blue-skies” approach to research with an analytical and modelling focus. The Programme is led by Professor Gary Frost and students will be supervised by a team of high caliber scientists including an industrial co-supervisor. Each project will have a common training core and with elements of translatable skills. 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:

• Clinical informatics and systems pharmacology
• Pattern recognition, artificial intelligence and multi-Omics integration
• Personalized medicine and biomarker research

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 therapeutic areas like oncology, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine.

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, computational/mathematical sciences and chemistry or analytical sciences, as well as a first or upper-second class honours science degree or equivalent. All Imperial College PhD entry requirements must be met.

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.

The deadline for applications is 23rd November 2018. Short-listed candidates will be informed by email and it is expected that interviews will take place the week commencing 3rd December 2018.