Imperial College London is awarding 12 fully funded MRC PhD studentships for 3.5 or 4.5 Years to start in 2015-16. In the case of a 4.5 year studentship, the award may be linked to a Masters (MSc or MRes) studentship. The Masters course will be taken in the first year of the 4.5 year award, and should be in a discipline relevant to the PhD project. In the case of the 3.5 year studentship, the award is available for PhD in the first year.

Study Subject (s):
Studentships are awarded for MSc/MRes courses available within the Faculty of Medicine and Natural Sciences. Research projects fall within the College’s research themes, and for this programme, in the areas as listed below. Genomic Medicine (GM), Infection, Immunity and Immunology (I&I), Stratified Medicine (SM), Population Health (PH), PhD studies undertaken as part of this program, in the last two rounds, include: Optogenetic disruption of climbing fibre input to cerebellar cortex (SM) , Phylodynamic analysis of the transmission and evolution of poliovirus and other rna viruses (I&I), Genetics and epidemiology of schistosomiasis (PH/GM), Structure vs. function in the human brain (SM), Natural Variation of Epstein Barr Virus (I&I/GM), Investigating androgen and growth factor interaction in preantral follicle development (GM), Development of New Biomaterials for Biosensing (GM/SM), Non-Communicable Disease In Resource Poor Settings (PH).

Application deadline is November 24, 2014

Further details:
http://scholarship-positions.com