WIMM Prize Studentships
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- DPhil in Medical Sciences
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DPhil research opportunities 2023
- Cross-talk between adipose tissue and the cardiovascular system in humans: From novel imaging biomarkers development to drug target discovery
- Functional coronary artery disease genetics - defining the function of new causal atherosclerosis genes from CAD GWAS loci using in vitro and in vivo models
- Human fat distribution and metabolic disease
- Cholangiocarcinoma epigenetics for target evaluation
- Imaging in Preventive Cardiology Research
- Realising the therapeutic potential of creatine and homoarginine in heart disease
- Myocardial functional T1 mapping – Advanced cardiac magnetic resonance imaging techniques
- Adverse myocardial remodelling in cardiac fibrosis and atrial fibrillation
- Go with the flow---the why and how of cardiovascular disease
- Creating genetic therapies for inherited heart muscle disease
- Iron and Immunity
- De Novo Mutations and Human Disease
- Laboratory of Gene Regulation
- Unravelling mechanisms of disease progression in Myeloproliferative Neoplasms
- Nucleic Acid Sensing During Virus Infection
- Building the skull – normal and abnormal development
- Single Cell Biology of Hematopoietic Stem- and Progenitor Cells in Blood Cancer and Ageing
- 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
- Therapeutic opportunities emerging from studies of immune checkpoints
- Genome Diversification in Cancer and Adaptive Immunity
- Design of advanced haematopoietic stem cell and T cell therapies
- Non-invasive cardiac metabolism assessment using ultra-high field (7T) MR Spectroscopy
- From basic biology to novel translational applications of haematopoietic stem cells
- Understanding how glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP1) and gastric inhibitory polypeptide (GIP) receptors contribute to metabolism in complex tissues
- Elucidating the role of disease modifying gene variants in inherited cardiomyopathies using induced pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes and CRISPR/Cas-9.
- Computational biology and machine learning for characterising spatial tissue niches and cellular signalling across space and time of human immune system development
- Applications of multi-omics and AI to better understand T cell immunity and antigen-specificity
- Imaging Cardiac Metabolism Using Hyperpolarized MRI
- Kini Group - A network approach to identifying novel genes causing neurodevelopmental disorders- The SATB pathway
- Akbar Group - Generating extracellular vesicles for therapeutic Immunomodulation and building tools to determine their diagnostic potential.
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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 provide a stipend and full University fees.
You can apply for both the WIMM Prize Studentship and the RDM Scholars Programme. Please see our how to apply page for more advice.