Fully Funded PhD Studentship In Medicine

The project will investigate how proteins such as growth factors or cytokines can direct lung repair. Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is one such condition where aberrant repair plays a role in disease. Synthetic messenger RNA will encode reparative factors to explore whether nucleic acids can promote wound healing. The studentship will be based in the Inflammation, Repair & Development Section which is within the Respiratory Division of the National Heart & Lung Institute and provides a stimulating environment of basic scientists and clinicians working across themes of airway regeneration, immunology, and translational lung research. The PhD candidate will have the opportunity to bring together multiple disciplines of epithelial cell biology, non-viral vector formulation and lung physiology.

The studentship has been made possible by the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI), and will be supervised by Dr Asha Patel and Professor Robert Snelgrove. We expect the PhD to begin 1st November 2022.

Studentships include funding for Home tuition fees plus stipend (£18,000 per annum).

• UK/EU/International candidates may apply.
• Successful non-UK candidates must pay the difference between Home and International tuition fees (this difference was £34,300 per year for the 3 years of study 2022/23). 

Eligibility:

• Be a new, international fee-status student
• Be holding an offer for a full-time postgraduate taught degree with a minimum course duration of one year
• Be starting your course in September 2022.