Tropical Medicine / Systems Biology PhD Studentships
University of Warwick
The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the Warwick Systems Biology Centre are inviting applications for distinguished four-year PhD studentships commencing September 2011. Up to six scholarships are available.
The course comprises a one-year MSc degree in Systems Biology followed by a three-year interdisciplinary PhD in Medical Systems Biology, co-supervised by scientists in the Liverpool School of Medicine and the Warwick Systems Biology Centre.
About tropical medicine: the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine takes the fight to infectious, debilitating and disabling diseases worldwide, to improve the health of the world's poorest people, with research and partnerships active in more than 70 countries worldwide. The Centre for Tropical and Infectious Diseases (CTID) provides a world-class lab facility to address new challenges in the treatment of infectious diseases through drug and vaccine design and development, initiation and management of clinical trials, pesticide and vector control design and development and cell and molecular biology pathogen research. Research takes a whole system approach, taking lab-based research to clinical trials and on to implementation of health systems, where evidence-based studies inform the next generation of research in the laboratory. The Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology group has major research interests in malaria, lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis), soil-transmitted helminthes (hookworms), trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), and leishmaniasis. The studentships will be in the exciting new areas of systems approaches to immunoparasitology and new chemotherapeutics.
About systems biology: the Warwick Systems Biology Centre is an internationally leading centre for the development of systems-level approaches to biological problems. The centre specializes in mathematical modelling, statistics, and bioinformatics to high-throughput proteomics and transcriptomics, as well as image acquisition and analysis. Not only are deep theoretical results developed that drive innovative data-analysis and experimental design techniques, but these new tools are applied, in collaborative efforts with experimental scientists, to concrete problems in such diverse fields as crop improvement, ueterine health, subcellular mechanics, neurocortical circuitry, diabetes, and immunology.
About interdisciplinary degrees: with co-supervisors in distinct disciplines, you become an expert in an experimental subject as well as in the mathematical modelling, statistics, and informatics required to design and analyse the experiments. Multidisciplinary graduates are highly employable, since advances in science and technology are increasingly interdisciplinary, and those individuals who are conversant with two or more disciplines are highly prized as hubs of multidisciplinary teams.
Eligibility: Due to funding restrictions, the studentships are open to UK/EU nationals only.
Applicants should hold, or expect to obtain, a first or upper second honours degree in a relevant subject, either in the biomedical sciences (biology, biochemistry, medicine, bioinformatics) with an interest in tropical medicine, parasitology, epidemiology etc., or in a field with a strong applied mathematics content such as physics, mathematics, statistics or engineering, with an interest in mathematical modelling in the life sciences.
For more information, please contact Professor Richard Pleass (Richard.Pleass@liverpool.ac.uk; science) or Dr Hugo van den Berg (hugo@maths.warwick.ac.uk; mathematics).
How to Apply: Go to http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/sbdtc/prospective_students/application/ quoting course code C1P9 and mentioning "Medical Systems Biology"
Deadline: 30 September 2011
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