Funding & Scholarships
There are several funding opportunitities if you interested in undertaking a PhD at the Jenner Institute. While the Institute does not itself fund studentships, please study the below options and follow the application procedures indicated for each funding option.
Please remember to contact a potential supervisor well in advance of the deadline so there is time to review your CV and to agree on a possible project if your application is successful.
NDM Prize Studentship
As a part of the Nuffield Department of Medicine, the Institute offers doctoral studies through the NDM Prize Studentships. These are fully-funded awards and are open to outstanding candidates from any country without restriction. Both subject specific and generic training in research skills will be provided.
Specific training will be available in molecular biology, vector construction, virology, immunization techniques, a large variety of immunoassays, parasitology, statistical analysis of data and experimental design. The Institute's activities spanning vaccinology, immunology and human genetics will provide exposure to a broad range of research and development activities in the biomedical sciences.
To apply for an NDM studentship within one of the above themes, please send your CV to the relevant supervisor to express your interest and follow the application procedures indicated in this link.
Closing date for applications: 4 Jan 2013.
Below a selection of doctoral projects which can be undertaken at the Institute, however do contact the relevant supervisor to discuss possible options.
Adrian Hill: Designing and Testing More Potent Vaccines
Adrian Hill: Enhancing Antibody Immunogenicity of Malaria Vaccines
Arturo Reyes: A new P. vivax malaria vaccine using recombinant viruses expressing pre-erythrocytic transgenes
Helen McShane: Human mycobacterial challenge models
Arturo Reyes: A dengue vaccine using genetically engineered viruses expressing transgenes designed using bioinformatics algorithms
Lucy Dorrell: T cell immune correlates of HIV-1 control and their application to disease prevention and cure strategies
Tom Hanke: Construction of novel Env-based vaccines for HIV
Tom Hanke: Development of a dual vaccine against HIV and TB
Tom Hanke: Definition of HLA-associated peptidomes on HIV-infected cells
Sarah Rowland-Jones: The function of dendritic cells in HIV-2 infection
Sarah Rowland-Jones: The pathogenesis of previously undiagnosed vertical HIV-1 infection in HIV-infected adolescents in Zimbabwe
Persephone Borrow: Type 1 interferon-mediated control of HIV-1 replication during acute infection
Sarah Gilbert: Influenza vaccines – Out with the new, in with the old
Sarah Gilbert: Influenza vaccines – Targeting the ‘different ages of man’
Wellcome Trust 4-year rotational programme
This programme offers the PhD student the opportunity of working in three different laboratories, including the Jenner Institute, within the first year to tailor an individual student package. Students can then make an informed choice about where to undertake their thesis research project for the subsequent three years.
The choice of laboratories for the PhD is made from a list of over 40 world class supervisors.
To find out more and how to apply, please follow this link.
Closing date for applications: 4 Jan 2013.
NIH and Oxford Scholarship Program
Students undertake a collaborative Ph.D. project at the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD and at the Jenner Institute, conducting research at both locations and potentially other sites including field work in Africa and elsewhere around the world.
For more information and how to apply, please follow this link.
Closing date for applications: 2 Jan 2013.
Post-graduate studies at the University of Oxford
For general information on admissions procedures, please follow this link.
