7 PhD fellowships Wellcome Trust Clinical PhD Programme

Cambridge Institute for Medical Research

Limit of tenure: 3 years

The University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute are offering 7 PhD fellowships, covering the broad themes of genetic medicine, infection and immunity, neuroscience and mental health, structural and cell biology applied to medicine, cardiovascular medicine, developmental biology, and epidemiology, public health and primary care, to start in October 2009.

Candidates should have the potential to pursue a career as an academic clinician. It is anticipated that many will have already commenced their specialist training, but this is not essential. The most important criteria we are looking for in applicants for this programme are academic excellence and the potential to pursue a career in academic medicine.

Further details about the position can be found at http://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/study/wtclinicians.html

Please apply in writing with current CV, and a 1 page statement on why you would like to join our programme, including whether you would consider a fellowship based at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, together with the names and email addresses of three academic referees to Miss Sonia Lyne, PhD Administrator, CIMR, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0XY, email SLL62@cam.ac.uk

Quote Reference: SA04202, Closing Date: 17 November 2008

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