The MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR) PhD Funded Programme

Annual stipend: £18,522
Start Date: 1^st October 2024
Deadline for Applications: 7^th January 2024
Interview Date: 20^th February 2024

The MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR) is pleased to welcome applications for its prestigious four-year doctoral training programme.

The MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR) is pleased to welcome applications for its prestigious four-year doctoral training programme. There has never been a more important time to carry out research on viruses. Viral diseases kill many millions of people each year and are a significant global challenge to human health and prosperity. To meet this challenge, we have created a specialised MRC PhD programme to train and equip the next generation of leaders in virus research, recruiting students from the UK and internationally. Students will be fully funded for four years, including stipend, tuition fees and consumables.

Nurturing the next generation of leaders in virus research is a key mission of the CVR, and we offer training in virus research from leaders in their fields. Our interests range from classical human pathogens to emerging viruses and arboviruses, with research areas covering antiviral responses, virus-host interactions, molecular virology, structural virology, clinical virology, vector-biology, virus evolution and virus discovery.

We can provide training in disciplines from structural biology and molecular biology through to epidemiology, as well as offering projects in data-driven and computational approaches to virus research, including mathematical, machine learning and statistical approaches to understanding virology and modelling infection at different scales. Projects that span disciplines, such as applications of artificial intelligence to virus sequence and structural data, are supported and encouraged.

Our research addresses a wide range of important human and animal pathogens, from influenza viruses and SARS-CoV-2 to the arboviruses that cause dengue and Rift Valley fever.

Join us to learn how to apply your own talents, skills and experience to understanding, and controlling, some of the world’s most important pathogens.

Find out more about the CVR MRC PhD funded programme, the lab you could work in and the research you could be doing and the viruses we study. All this can be found here.

"The discoveries and therapies of the future are only possible if we nurture our promising talent in the present" - Massimo Palmarini - CVR Director