项目介绍

2021年8月10日

Overview

The Division of Infection & Immunity is an internationally renowned centre for research and graduate training in human immunology, pathogen biology and the host-pathogen interaction. The division includes the Research Department of Infection and the Institute of Immunity & Transplantation. It has strong international links with American, European, and developing world research centres, including the newly established African Health Research Institute in Durban. We are commited to research-based teaching and host a dynamic community of postgraduate students. Our PhD programme provides research training in basic and translational science and the offering reflects our broad-ranging research expertise. We also have a strong track record in training clinician scientists, supported by fellowships from the Wellcome Trust, MRC and BBSRC.

Research areas

Principal research areas are:

• Autoimmune diabetes
• Cancer and Leukaemia/Gene therapy
• Computational immunology and bioinformatics
• Herpes viruses
• HIV and retroviruses
• Host-pathogen interaction
• Immune regulation
• Immunity to hepatitis
• Immunology of ageing
• Innate immunity
• Primary immune deficiency
• Tuberculosis
• Virus evolution and drug resistance

More information can be found on the department website: Infection and Immunity MPhil/PhD

About this degree

Additional costs

For more information on additional costs for prospective students please go to our estimated cost of essential expenditure at Accommodation and living costs.

Accessibility

Details of the accessibility of UCL buildings can be obtained from AccessAble accessable.co.uk. Further information can also be obtained from the UCL Student Support & Wellbeing team.

Funding

UK/EU students can apply to MRC studentships to do a PhD in the Division of Infection & Immunity via the UCL-Birbeck MRC Doctoral Training programme.

In addition, we welcome applications from overseas students who have won competitive scholarships to train abroad.

For a comprehensive list of the funding opportunities available at UCL, including funding relevant to your nationality, please visit the Scholarships and Funding website.

Careers

Recent graduates have secured postdoctoral positions in universities or research institutions in the UK, Europe, the US and Middle East. Others are working in research and development for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies or in scientific journalism, patent law, health consultancy and management.

Employability

A strength of the Division is its position at the interface between basic research and clinical medicine, fostered by UCL Partners, a consortium bringing together UCL with major hospital trusts in the area. Basic research in infection and immunology is also strong in the Division. About 60% of our graduates carry on in academia and another 25% choose the medical field as clinician scientists or research scientists in translational research areas. UCL’s reputation also benefits those graduates who choose to enter clinical trial management, science writing/publishing, biotech/pharma, or intellectual/property/patent law.

Networking

Doctoral research training is always supervised by leading international experts in their fields, and the research is routinely presented at the major international meetings in each discipline. As a result, students are provided with direct personal contacts to the key people in their areas of expertise, and regularly obtain postdoctoral appointments at the most prestigious research centres (for example, Harvard and Stanford). The opportunity to spend periods of time in other laboratories worldwide (recent examples include Yale, Stanford and Cape Town) also offers strong opportunities to broaden the student contact base.

Why study this degree at UCL?

In addition to a vibrant and collaborative research community, we have weekly internal seminars and a yearly PhD colloquium where PhD students present their results. A postgraduate club runs on a termly basis where invited speakers, who are leaders in their field (academia, pharma, biotech, law, politics, etc.), discuss their career experience. These initiatives facilitate networking and help students to become part of a community in the division.

In addition to the primary supervisor, there is a thesis community composed of more than two senior staff members with expertise in the area of the project. Through regular meetings with the student, the thesis committee provides advice and support.

Department: Division of Infection & Immunity

Application and next steps

Applications

Students are advised to apply as early as possible due to competition for places. Those applying for scholarship funding (particularly overseas applicants) should take note of application deadlines.

This programme requires two references. Further information regarding references can be found in our How to apply section.

Application deadlines

All applicants30 July 2021

UK/EU/EEA nationals who have been resident in the UK for a period of 3 years or more prior to application may apply to the Birbeck-UCL MRC Doctoral training programme within the themes of “Fundamental mechanism of Disease” or “Experimental and Personalised Medicine”. Successful applicants will be able to take a PhD in the Division of Infection & Immunity. This scheme will be open to applicants in October 2017, with shortlisting taking place in December and interviews in January/February 2018. Applications to other PhD schemes may start at any time of the year. In this case, dailiness are dictated by individual funding arrangements. PhD students typically start in September. For more information see our How to apply page.

For more information see our Applications page.

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