Joint Basic and Clinical PhD Programmes

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Purpose

This is a flagship scheme aimed at supporting the most promising basic or medically qualified clinicians who wish to undertake both rigorous basic and clinical science research training.

Successful candidates will develop their potential to become leading academics of the future within a structured and mentored training environment. Programmes will provide the individual trainee with opportunities to sample high-quality research environments before they develop a research proposal that is tailored to their individual interests.

Clinical PhD Programmes and the Translational Medicine and Therapeutics Programmes provide further research training opportunities for clinicians.

Programmes

Two Programmes have been established based in centres of excellence at Birmingham and the Institute of Cancer Research.

Both Programmes have been structured to reflect the expertise of individual institutions, and together they offer a unique opportunity for academic training in the UK.

University of Birmingham
Directors: Professor Paul Stewart and Professor John Gordon

The Institute for Cancer Research, London
Director: Professor Paul Workman

What's included

Support is provided for four years and includes:

a stipend for basic candidates
a clinical salary for medically qualified candidates
PhD registration fees at UK/EU student rate
research expenses
contribution towards travel
contribution towards transferable-skills training.

Eligibility

Basic science applicants should have, or expect to obtain, a first- or upper-second-class honours degree or equivalent.

Clinically qualified candidates should have demonstrated the potential to pursue a career as an academic clinician. It is anticipated that many applicants will have already commenced their specialist training but this is not essential.

Application process

Students are recruited annually by the individual Programmes. Recruitment begins in the preceding January.

If you are interested in applying you should contact the relevant Programme directly. Please see their websites for more details (listed under the ‘Programmes’ tab).

Deadlines

Students are recruited annually by the individual Programmes. Recruitment begins in the preceding January.

Contacts

Any general enquiries should be directed to the relevant Programme. Please see their websites for more details (listed under the ‘Programmes’ tab).

Any policy enquiries should be emailed to clinicalphd@wellcome.ac.uk or John Williams: j.williams@wellcome.ac.uk.