Wellcome Trust PhD Programme for Clinicians

UCL hosts a Wellcome Trust funded PhD Programme for Clinicians. This has been a flagship scheme aimed at supporting the most promising medically qualified clinicians who wish to undertake rigorous research training, leading to the award of a PhD.

The final round of recruitment to this programme was completed in 2021. There are no institutional programmes specifically for clinicians at present. Those wishing to undertake a clinical research training/doctoral fellowship at UCL should approach potential supervisors directly with a view to fellowship applications to NIHR (https://www.nihr.ac.uk/explore-nihr/academy-programmes/fellowship-programme.htm), MRC (https://mrc.ukri.org/skills-careers/fellowships/clinical-fellowships/clinical-research-training-fellowship-crtf/), or an appropriate charity that provides doctoral fellowship scheme.

Our Fellows

2021 Appointed Fellows

Harry Costello- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
Puja Mehta- Institute of Neurology
Clare Thakker- Division of Infection and Immunity
Olivia Lucas- Cancer Institute
Sanjay Budhdeo- Dept of Clinical and Movement Neurosciences

2020 Appointed Fellows

Thomas Callender- Respiratory Medicine
Maria Krutikov- Institute of Health Informatics
Priya Rajyaguru- Division of Psychiatry

2019 Appointed Fellows

Alasdair Warwick- Institute of Cardiovascular Science (Population Health)
William Scotton- Dementia Research Centre
Danielle Solomon- Institute for Global Health
George Collins- Infection and Immunity
Jonathan Rogers- Division of Psychiatry

2018 Appointed Fellows

Thomas Fox- Infection and Immunity
Robert Lever- Infection and Immunity
Sinead McGlacken-Byrne- Institute of Child Health
Matthew Nour - Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Aging Research
Nekisa Zakeri- Infection and Immunity

2017 Appointed Fellows

Angharad Davis - Division of Biosciences
Ehsan Ghorani- Cancer Institute
Neha Pathak- Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care
Adam Pennycuick- Centre for Respiratory Biology
Ramya Srinivasan- Division of Psychiatry

2016 Appointed Fellows

Deepak Chandrasekharan- Lungs for Living
Dami Collier- Division of Infection and Immunity
Douglas Fink - Division of Infection and Immunity
Constantinos Parisinos- Institute of Health Informatics
Emily Shaw-Wise- Division of Infection and Immunity

2015 Appointed Fellows

Anna Aryee- Institute of Health Informatics
Anob Chakrabati- UCL Genetics Institute (UGI)
Kate El Bouzadi- Division of Infection and Immunity
Neil Halliday- Division of Infection and Immunity
Valerie Kuan- Cell and Developmental Biology

2014 'Next Step' Appointed Fellows

Cordelia Coltart- Department of Infection and Population Health
Maryam Khosravi - Divison of Biosciences
Neelam Kumar- Divison of Medicine
Richard Rosch- Institute of Neurology
Taavi Tillman- Institute of Epidemiology and Health care

Programme Director

Mahdad Noursadeghi is Professor of Infectious Diseases and a Wellcome Trust Investigator, studying the immunology of human infectious diseases with a focus on tuberculosis. He has hosted clinical fellows in his group continuously since 2008 and provided academic mentorship for clinician scientists through the UCL Academic Careers Office since 2013, with the aim of encouraging and enabling inquisitive clinicians to break new ground in our understanding of health and disease through innovative and rigorous science.

Contacts: If you have any questions about the programme, please contact Jo Rickett j.rickett@ucl.ac.uk

Academic Careers Office:

Office of the Vice-Provost (Health)
University College London
1st Floor Maple House
149 Tottenham Court Road
London W1T 7NF

Supervisor profiles

The UCL WT clinical PhD Program attracts high calibre candidates. We are aiming to ensure our fellows have access to the widest possible pool of high-quality investigators who want to engage with the program as supervisors, and have the appropriate experience and resources. To achieve this, we offer a regularly updated list of approved supervisors across the many different Departments and Institutes at UCL, plus the Francis Crick Institute in which UCL is a founding partner.

Population Health

Medical Sciences

Professor Mahdad Noursadeghi
Professor David Lomas
Professor Hans Stauss
Professor Mala Maini
Professor Michael Hausser
Professor Alun Hughes
Professor Charles Swanton
Professor David Abraham
Professor Lucy Walker
Professor David Sansom
Professor Greg Towers
Professor Derek Gilroy
Professor Sam Janes
Professor John Wood
Professor Amit Nathwani
Professor Rachel Chambers
Dr Claire Roddie
Professor Jasmin Fisher
Dr Matthew Reeves
Professor Joe Standing
Professor Bart Vanhaesebroeck
Professor Elizabeth Jury
Professor Robert Heyderman
Professor Andrew Smith
Professor Stuart Taylor
Professor Charles Swanton
Dr Mariam Jamal-Hanjani
Dr Richard Hebber
Dr Liam Browne
Professor Jeremy Brown
Dr Clare Jolly
Dr Martin Pule
Professor Stephen Pereira
Professor Alastair Sutcliffe
Professor Michael Ehrenstein

Brain Sciences

Professor Nicholas Wood
Professor John Hardy
Professor Dimitri Kullmann
Professor Jonathan Roiser
Professor Raymond Dolan
Professor Sophie Scott
Professor Jason Warren
Professor Sarah Tabrizi
Professor Kenneth Harris
Professor Mike Cheetham
Professor Christiana Ruhrberg
Professor Elizabeth Fisher
Professor Glyn Lewis
Professor Michel Michaelides
Dr Nik Sharma
Dr Frances Wiseman
Professor David Osborn
Dr Stephen Fleming
Professor Pietro Fratta
Professor Anthony David
Professor Adrian Isaacs
Professor Giampietro Schiavo
Professor Rob Brownstone

Wellcome Trust PhD Programme for Clinicians

Population Health

Medical Sciences

Brain Sciences

Life Sciences

Francis Crick Institute