DPhil Structural Biology

Directors: Professor Mark Sansom and Professor David Stuart

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 provide training in structural biology and the biochemical, genetic and cell biological approaches needed to understand molecular and cellular function.

Your first year will involve 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 Department of Biochemistry. 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 ther 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 the Related Links.

The application deadline for this programme is Friday 4 January 2013