WIMM Prize Studentships
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- DPhil in Medical Sciences
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DPhil research opportunities 2024
- Cross-talk between adipose tissue and the cardiovascular system in humans: Using Artificial Intelligence to design precision Imaging diagnostics and discover novel therapeutic targets
- Functional coronary artery disease genetics - defining the function of new causal atherosclerosis genes
- Human fat distribution and metabolic disease
- Inflammatory infiltration induces cancer-associated fibroblast differentiation
- Imaging in Preventive Cardiology Research
- Adverse myocardial remodelling in cardiac fibrosis and atrial fibrillation
- Why does turbulent blood flow cause cardiovascular disease?
- Watkins Group – Various projects relating to inherited heart muscle disease
- Iron and Immunity
- De Novo Mutations and Human Disease
- Understanding the principles of gene expression in health and disease.
- Inflammation in p53 mutant myeloproliferative neoplasms
- Developing improved models of normal and malignant blood cell development
- New Immune Therapies For Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML) And Myeloid Blood Cancers.
- Building the skull – normal and abnormal development
- Single Cell Biology of Hematopoietic Stem- and Progenitor Cells in Blood Cancer and Ageing
- Genomics and Genome Editing
- Therapeutic opportunities emerging from studies of immune checkpoints
- Design of advanced haematopoietic stem cell and T cell therapies
- Non-invasive cardiac metabolism assessment using ultra-high field (7T) MR Spectroscopy
- 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
- Hyde Group - Airway Gene Therapy - Engineering Lentiviral Vectors for Lung Cell-Specific Targeting
- Characterising spatial tissue niches in human immune system development and disease using computational biology, machine learning and multi-omics approaches
- Applications of multi-omics and AI to decode T cell recognition code in time and space
- Kini Group - A network approach to identifying novel genes causing neurodevelopmental disorders- The SATB pathway
- Imaging-based analysis of signalling pathways triggered by immune checkpoint receptors
- Generating extracellular vesicles for therapeutic Immunomodulation and building tools to determine their diagnostic potential.
- Development and Application of Hyperpolarized Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Study of the Diseased Heart
- Homologous recombination in genome maintenance and cancer prevention
- Impact of endogenous DNA damage and repair in early haematopoiesis
- Non-invasive tests for the prediction of clinical outcomes in people with metabolic dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease
- Development and combination of advanced neuroimaging to understand functional changes in Multiple Sclerosis
- How do protein making factories prevent cardiovascular disease?
- Development of genetic therapies for cardiomyopathy: creating an evidence base for ethical and clinical implementation.
- Advanced early detection of lytic bone disease using multi-modal computational analysis of bone marrow biopsies and skeletal imaging
- Occult hepatitis B virus infection (OBI) in people who donate blood: virology, immunology and liver health (OPAL)
- Characterising Human Intestinal Development and Dysregulation in Childhood Diseases
- Single Cell Biology, Molecular Mechanisms And Genetics of Transformation of Clonal Haemopoiesis to Myeloid Blood Cancer (MDS and AML)
- Developing new echocardiography diagnostics with AI
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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.