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PhD students will follow the four year CRUK CoLCentre PhD training programme.
Applications are now closed for the 2019 postgraduate training programme.
Although based in their primary supervisor’s research group, students will have the opportunity to work across the centre, for example when carrying out their research placements or accessing the Centre’s infrastructure cores.
The programme for will begin with an induction programme introducing fellows to the Centre, the training programme, their university of registration and to carrying out a PhD. Trainees will submit reports, give talks and meet with their thesis committees at specific points on the programme and be able to access a vast range of scientific and transferable skills training via the Centre partners and beyond. Early on in the programme, students will work with their supervisors to develop a customised training plan that is tailored to the students’s background and project requirements, and which includes multi-disciplinary skills training and three two-month research placements with other groups in the centre.
- Supervision, PhD registration and studentships
PhD students following the four-year CRUK CoL PhD training programme will be based in their primary supervisor’s research group, and have a secondary supervisor from one of the Centre’s other institutions. Students will register for their PhD at the primary supervisor’s university, or the secondary supervisor’s university if the primary supervisor is based at the Crick. All students will have a three-person thesis committee made up of Centre faculty, that they will meet with regularly to discuss progress and receive guidance and advice.
Successful candidates will receive a £21,000 tax-free student stipend (living allowance) per year for 4 years plus payment of university tuition fees.
- Eligibility
Due to funding body restrictions only UK / EU nationals are eligible to apply for this programme.
The standard CoL PhD programme and studentship academic eligibility criteria are:
- A first/upper second-class honours degree (or equivalent from a non-UK university) in a relevant subject.
- Appropriate research experience as part of, or outside of, an undergraduate or masters degree course in a relevant subject.
- Appropriate English language skills.
Projects
Project 1: The role of MSCs derived inflammation in the pathogenesis of Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN) and leukaemic transformation.
- Supervisors: Dr Dominique Bonnet (Crick) and Dr Shahram Kordasti (KCL)
Project 2: Targeted reversal of epigenetic silencing at specific tumour suppressor genes in lymphoma.
- Supervisors: Prof Richard Jenner (UCL) and Prof Jude Fitzgibbon (QMUL)
Project 3: Development of an absolute quantitation method for genetically modified cell therapy.
- Supervisors: Dr Sophie Papa (King's College London) and Dr Jane Sosabowski (QMUL)
Project 4: Development of a personalised immunotherapy combined with viro-therapy for treatment of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.
- Supervisors: Prof Yaohe Wang (QMUL) and Prof Farzin Farzeneh (King's College London)
Project 5: Modelling of functional and tumour heterogeneity in human AML arisen from different cells-of-origin.
- Supervisors: Prof Eric So (King's College London) and Prof Adrian Thrasher (UCL)
