WIMM Prize Studentships
- DPhil in Medical Sciences
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DPhil research opportunities 2021
- Translational cardiovascular research: cross-talk between adipose tissue and the cardiovascular system in humans
- Therapeutic targeting of chemokines in inflammation
- Functional coronary artery disease genetics - Defining the function of new causal atherosclerosis genes from CAD GWAS loci using in vitro and in vivo models
- Innate immune function in atherosclerosis and acute myocardial infarction
- Human fat distribution and metabolic disease
- Imaging in Preventive Cardiology Research
- Cardiac energetics & integrative physiology
- Myocardial functional T1 mapping – Advanced cardiac magnetic resonance imaging techniques
- Circadian control of energy metabolism and inflammation
- Adverse myocardial remodelling in cardiac fibrosis and atrial fibrillation
- Go with the flow---the why and how of cardiovascular disease
- Genetics of inherited cardiovascular disease
- Academic Endocrine Unit
- Human T Cell responses against viruses and cancer
- Iron and Immunity
- De Novo Mutations and Human Disease
- Laboratory of Gene Regulation
- Haematopoietic Stem Cell Biology
- Quantitative biology of cell fate and tissue dynamics
- Molecular dissection of blood cell fate determination
- Single Cell Biology of Hematopoietic Stem- and Progenitor Cells in Blood Cancer and Ageing
- Development of the hematopoietic/ immune system in the embryo
- Sauka-Spengler Group - Gene Regulatory Networks in Development and Disease
- Origins of Genotoxic metabolism and the DNA damage response in stem and cancer cells
- Deciphering the role of white and brown adipocytes in metabolic disease
- Genomics and Genome Editing
- T-cell Biology
- Recombination mechanisms in immunity and cancer
- Immunotherapy
- Non-invasive cardiac metabolism assessment using ultra-high field (7T) MR Spectroscopy
- How to apply
- Funding Options
- Meet the team
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Career Paths of Former Students
- Associate Professor - Universiti Putra Malaysia
- Freelance Copy Editor
- Wellcome Trust Research Fellow - Kennedy Institute, University of Oxford
- Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow - Stanford University
- Senior Scientist - Immunocore
- Postdoctoral Fellow - Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
- Assistant Head Teacher - West London Free School
- Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine - Queen Mary University London, Barts & The London School of Medicine and Dentistry
- University Research Lecturer & British Heart Foundation Research Fellow - Cardiovascular Medicine, RDM, University of Oxford
- Senior Policy Manager - Research Councils UK (RCUK)
- Skills and Training
The MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (WIMM) is an internationally renowned Institute that aims to unravel the mechanisms of disease and build on these findings to improve human health. For those who would like to work at the WIMM, the Institute offers a number of four year Prize Studentships to outstanding students of any nationality.
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The Prize Studentship is advertised in the October of each year for entry in the following October. For more details, please see the WIMM how to apply page.
WIMM Prize Studentships are offered at the same level as the RDM Scholars Programme: full University and College fees and a stipend of £18,000 per annum.
You can apply for both the WIMM Prize Studentship and the RDM Scholars Programme. Please see our how to apply page for more advice.