DPhil Genomic Medicine and Statistics

Directors: Professors Jonathan Flint, Gilean McVean, Richard Mott, and Chris Holmes

Duration: 4 years

This programme is funded by the Wellcome Trust and offers an excellent stipend and generous funding for research expenses. It aims to train students in the methodologies required to understand the molecular basis of complex disease.

Your first year will involves course work and rotation through two laboratories. After this you will select your project and supervisor for the remainder of the programme.

The programme is hosted by the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics. After the first year, you will work in the Department in which your main project is based.

Up to 5 places per year are available. Accepted students are typically fully funded, although some overseas students may have to find additional funding to cover the higher overseas fee.

This is 1 of 7 Wellcome Trust-funded PhD programmes in Oxford, overseen by the Medical Sciences Division Doctoral Training Centre.

Further details of this programme, the supervisors that offer projects and how to apply can be found at Related Links.

The application deadline for this programme is Friday 4 January 2013