Translational Medicine PhD

Overview

Our School of Biomedical Sciences offers excellent research opportunities in doctoral research in Translational Medicine to improve human health via a bench to bedside research approach.

Our doctoral training provides opportunity to transform scientific discoveries arising from laboratory, clinical or population studies into new clinical tools and applications that improve human health by reducing disease incidence, morbidity, and mortality.

We invite applications for doctoral research in various Translational Medicine topic areas, including:

• gene therapy
• cancer biology
• dementia care
• biomarker discoveries and response
• clinical diagnostic tool development
• human – computer user experience
• electronic sensing (nose) for disease detection and diagnosis
• clinical pharmacology
• knowledge discovery in patient records
• health technology testing
• health discovery implementation and evaluation
• health wearable design and evaluation
• cloud computing and healthcare
• cyber security in healthcare
• IoT in health
• blockchain and health and biological data

Career

We will prepare you for a wide range of careers in healthcare, biotech industry, teaching and research – whether you want to work in the NHS, in academia, medical research laboratories, pharmaceutical research, the food industry, as a private therapist, in health education and public health or areas such as international aid and development.

Studying for a PhD enables you to develop an area of specialism that will give you an edge whether you are planning to work within the field of law or to develop expertise to teach in academia.

During your PhD, you will also be learning transferable core skills that apply to jobs both in and out of academia, including:

• written and oral communication
• research and information management
• public speaking
• project management
• leadership
• critical Thinking
• collaboration
• analysis and problem-solving
• conflict resolution
• negotiation

By the end of your research degree, you will be able to articulately apply these skills to enhance your career path.

The minimum entry requirements for a research degree are a good first degree (First Class or Upper Second Class), or equivalent qualification in a relevant field, a masters degree (MA, MSc, MBA or MRes) with Merit, or equivalent postgraduate or research experience.