Medical Sciences Doctoral Training Centre

Please click on the links to our programmes for further information.

Welcome to the Medical Sciences Doctoral Training Centre. Graduate students in Oxford are amongst the best of their generation and this is especially true of those supported by the Wellcome Trust and British Heart Foundation on these doctoral programmes.

There are eight programmes, each with a distinctive intellectual flavour. Students carry out research projects with scientists at the forefront of their fields in addition to receiving outstanding training, together with the necessary scientific background to allow them to understand the context of the research they will carry out. Conducting research in a responsible manner and communicating findings to other students, scientists and to the public is an increasingly important aspect of any research training. The Doctoral Training Centre exists to support students in the broader aspects of their development as scientists and the responsibility that comes with the privilege of carrying out research. Inevitably when enthusiastic and able students get together, new collaborations develop. The inter-disciplinary nature of the programmes at the Doctoral Training Centre are also seen as a means of stimulating cross-disciplinary initiatives, through scientific and social events co-ordinated through the Centre.

Director: Professor Anton Van Der Merwe (director@msdtc.ox.ac.uk)
Administrator: Mrs Lindsay Johnson (lindsay.johnson@msdtc.ox.ac.uk)
Enquiries: enquiries@msdtc.ox.ac.uk

Clinical Fellows 3 Year PhD Programme

Biomedical & Clinical Sciences - Training Fellowships for Clinicians in Basic Sciences

Find out more about the Training Fellowships

4 Year PhD Programmes

Successful applicants will be admitted to the Medical Sciences Doctoral Training Centre before being assigned a department.

The Division of Medical Sciences has a comprehensive divisional training infrastructure available to all its graduate students, and caters for a wide range of individuals’ needs through its Skills Training Programme. Courses include Writing and Presentation Skills, Intellectual Property, Project and Research Management, and Research Ethics (see the skills training website). Oxford has outstanding library provision, including the Bodleian copyright library, second in size only to the British Library, and a comprehensive subscription to electronic journals. Each student belongs to a College, which provides independent academic and pastoral advice, libraries and computing facilities, access to travel funds and other bursaries, and a diverse and international intellectual environment, in addition to accommodation and social facilities.

For the other University of Oxford Doctoral Training Centres, visit the Doctoral Training Centre Portal

Medical Sciences Division

Sections

Medical Sciences Doctoral Training Centre

Clinical Fellows 3 Year PhD Programme

Biomedical & Clinical Sciences - Training Fellowships for Clinicians in Basic Sciences

4 Year PhD Programmes

Cardiovascular Science

Chromosome and Developmental Biology: The Cell in Heredity and Development

Genomic Medicine and Statistics

Infection, Immunology and Translational Medicine

Neuroscience

OXION: Ion Channels & Disease Initiative

Structural Biology: From Molecules to Cells