Sunday 25 October 2009

UK : 20 PhD Studentships at Institute of Cancer Research

20 PhD Studentships at Institute of Cancer Research, UK


Studentships


Applications are invited for PhD studentships in October 2010. 

The deadline for applications is Tuesday 1st December 2009. Available studentships are listed below. Any enquiries should be directed to registry@icr.ac.uk. To see projects suitable for applicants with backgrounds in the relevant subject areas click on the tiles below.

Biological Sciences 
Chemistry 
Maths, Statistics & Epidemiology 
Physics & Engineering 
Computer Sciences 

Funding 

Studentships funded by The Institute of Cancer Research will be supported for four years. The non-taxable stipend, for 2010/11 is £19,300 (inner London - Chester Beatty Laboratories, Fulham Road) or £18,000 (outer London - Sutton Campus). Higher stipends are available for students on the Wellcome Trust PhD Programme in Mechanism-based Drug Discovery.

Find below a complete list of Institute studentships: 

Intermediate phenotypes and mapping causal variants; IGFBP-2, IGFBP-5 and breast cancer risk 
Professor Alan Ashworth

The development of viral vectors for use in Gene-directed enzyme prodrug therapy (GDEPT) 
Professor Caroline Springer

Structural and chemical biology in the design of selective kinase inhibitors 
Professor Julian Blagg and Dr Richard Bayliss 

Identification and characterisation of novel therapeutic targets in breast cancer metastasis 
Professor Clare Isake

Prostate MR Spectroscopy in vivo 
Dr Geoffrey Payne and Professor Nandita DeSouza

Synthesis of targeted fragment libraries by iterative scaffold elaboration
Professor Julian Blagg

Development of specific RNase inhibitors for the treatment of haematological cancers 
Drs Faith Davies and Ian Collins

Ubiquitin-mediated signalling in apoptosis and cancer 
Professor Pascal Meier

Impact of p53 function on metabolic activation of environmental carcinogens 
Professor David Phillips

A systems genetics analysis of Rho-family GTPase signalling 
Dr Chris Bakal

A mechanism based classification of human prostate cancer 
Professor Colin Cooper

Quantification of pre-clinical PET and SPECT imaging 
Dr Glenn Flux

Inheritance and brain tumour risk 
Professor Richard Houlston

Inheritance and leukaemia risk 
Professor Richard Houlston

Pre-clinical evaluation of imaging biomarkers of neuroblastoma 
Drs Louis Chesler and Simon Robinson

Determining modifiers of cdk inhibitor sensitivity 
Professors Sibylle Mittnacht and Paul Workman

Exploring the mechanism of CCT using small molecule inhibitors 
Professors Keith Jones and Keith Willison

Non-invasive molecular profiling of breast cancer with optoacoustic imaging 
Dr Jeff Bamber, Professor Nandita deSouza and Dr Simon Robinson

Investigating the relationship between PI3K/AKT signalling and cell cycle checkpoints for cancer drug development 
Dr Michelle Garrett 

Identification and validation of target genes in cancer using the synthetic lethality approach 
Dr Spiros Linardopoulos

Information:
http://www.icr.ac.uk/education/phd_studentships/available_studentships/index.shtml
 

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