Funding

Funding is often secured through Wellcome Trust or MRC DTP Fellowships. Further information about this and specific projects studying under the supervision of Departmental supervisors who have obtained funding are advertised below.

For up-to-date information on tuition fees, please refer to the College's Fees and Funding pages. It should be noted that supervisors may charge an additional ‘bench fee’ from sponsors to cover the costs of laboratory expenses (consumables and equipment) for postgraduate research projects.

Integrative proteo-genomic analysis to investigative immune-mediated disease aetiology

Award

We are offering an exciting 3.5 year PhD studentship within the Department of Immunology and Inflammation at Imperial College London funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

This PhD will be a data science project, involving analysis of genomic and proteomic data. The project will provide the student excellent training in data science approaches including working with data at scale (both in terms of number of samples and number of features). In particular, the data will include two high-dimensional ‘-omic’ domains. Data skills developed will include coding, data wrangling, visualisation and advanced statistical analysis, particularly statistical genetics and causal inference using Mendelian randomisation. The supervisor, Dr Peters is a clinician scientist with formal training in computational biology and extensive experience in data science and multi-omics (former HDR UK Innovation Fellow). Thus the PhD will be interdisciplinary, bridging both biomedicine and data science.

• Full funding for tuition fees at home rate, overseas fees are not provided
• A stipend of £20,622 per annum for 3.5 years

Eligibility

• Applicants must hold (or obtain by September 2024) a first or upper-second-class honours degree or equivalent in Life Sciences, Computer Science or Applied Statistics.
• A Master’s degree in computational biology, genetic epidemiology, or health data science or similar is desirable but not essential. The ability to program using the R language is highly desirable. 
• Applicants must also meet Imperial College’s English language requirements – further details can be found here.
• All Imperial College London PhD entry requirements must be met and the successful applicant will subsequently need to apply online.

Application

• Applicants should submit their CV and a cover letter (max 1 page) outlining why they wish to undertake this studentship and any relevant previous experience, including full contact details of two referees, to James Peters (j.peters@imperial.ac.uk). 
• For further information about the research or queries about the application process please contact James Peters (j.peters@imperial.ac.uk)  We regret that due to the large volume of applications received, we are only able to notify those shortlisted for interview.

• The deadline for applications is 24 July 2024.

The President’s PhD Scholarship

Award

• Full funding for tuition fees
• A stipend of £25,150 per annum for 3.5 years
• A consumables fund of £2,000 per annum for the first 3 years of study

Eligibility

• Includes First Class UK degree or equivalent. If a Master's is held, it must be awarded with Distinction.
• The Department will consider one exceptional overseas student this year. Please check with Mojiba Khanum m.khanum@ic.ac.uk to confirm this is still available before applying.

• Prior to applying - Applicants must have made contact with a supervisor who has agreed to supervise their research project. Supervisors are limited to supervise one student at any time. Once you have a supervisor who has agreed to support you, please email Mojiba Khanum m.khanum@ic.ac.uk  so your PhD scholarship application can be prioritised for review and shortlisting.

Application

• Complete an online application by the deadline stated on the President’s PhD Scholarship webpage. 
• Prior to applying applicants must have made contact with a supervisor who has agreed to supervise their research project. Supervisors are limited to supervise one student at any time.

Read more about our current PhD funding opportunities

Imperial College’s Scholarships Search Tool

Other scholarships may be available for students with particular track records and nationalities, and it is advised that this tool is used to help search for available scholarships.