We are offering at least five fully funded four-year PhD studentships commencing in October 2025.
Studentships must be based in the School of Clinical Medicine and fall under one of the following research themes.
- Data Science for Health
- Infections and Immunity
- Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Disease
- Neurosciences and Mental Health
The programme is structured as 0.5 + 3.5, and in the first 6 months students will undertake two 3-month rotations projects in different laboratories.
These projects will be in different disciplinary areas related to your field of research and will allow refinement of your PhD project in line with your emerging research interests as the programme progresses.
Prospective applicants can choose up to 3 projects of interest which are listed by research theme below.
As we approach the opening of applications, we invite you to check out this video where our Course Director, Guy Williams, answers some of the most frequently asked questions about the DTP in MR program.
Learn more about the Doctoral Training Programme
If you have any additional questions, feel free to reach out to us at dtp@medschl.cam.ac.uk. We're here to help you every step of the way!
Dr Elias Allara - Public Health and Primary Care
Professor Sir Simon Baron-Cohen - Psychiatry
Dr Jamie Blundell - Early Cancer Institute
Dr Xilin Jiang - Public Health and Primary Care
Dr Samuel Lambert - Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit / Public Health and Primary Care
Dr Amy Orben - MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Dr Andrew Conway Morris - Medicine
Dr Maria Duque-Correa - Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Professor Andres Floto - Medicine (HLRI)
Dr Akhilesh Jha - Medicine
Dr Stephen Kaptoge - Public Health and Primary Care
Dr Nicholas Matheson - Medicine
Professor Yorgo Modis - Medicine
Professor Julian Rayner - Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR)
Dr Jeanne Salje - Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR)
Professor Sarah Teichmann - Medicine / Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Professor Mike Weekes - Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR)
Professor Matthias Zilbauer - Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Dr Edward Avezov - Clinical neurosciences / UK Dementia Research institute
Dr Gabriel Balmus - Clinical neurosciences / UK Dementia Research institute
Professor Miguel Constancia - Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Professor Janet Deane - Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR)
Dr Laura Dearden - Institute of Metabolic Science / Clinical Biochemistry
Dr Melissa Gammons - Medical Genetics (CIMR)
Dr David Gershlick - Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR)
Dr Helle Jorgensen - Medicine
Professor Walid Khaled - Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Professor Elisa Laurenti - Haematology
Dr Jonathon Nixon-Abell - Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR)
Professor Susan Ozanne - Institute of Metabolic Science
Professor Sanjay Sinha - Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Dr Jelle van den Ameele - Clinical Neurosciences / MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit
Professor George Vassiliou - Haematology
Professor Antonio Vidal-Puig - Clinical Biochemistry / IMS
Professor Franklin Aigbirhio - Molecular Imaging Chemistry Laboratory
Dr Clemence Blouet - Clinical Biochemistry
Professor Michael Coleman - Clinical Neurosciences
Dr Nick Cunniffe - Clinical Neurosciences
Professor Karen Ersche - Psychiatry
Dr Simon Etkind - Public Health and Primary Care
François Guérit - MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Mr Adel Helmy - Clinical Neurosciences / Neurosurgery
Dr Joanne Jones - Clinical Neurosciences
Dr Janin Lautenschlaeger - Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR)
Dr Mary-Ellen Lynall - Psychiatry
Professor Tamar Makin - MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Dr Selena Milicevic Sephton - Clinical Neurosciences
Dr Virginia Newcombe - Medicine
Dr Emanuele Osimo - Psychiatry
Dr Mirabel Pelton - Psychiatry
Professor Stefano Pluchino - Clinical Neurosciences
Professor Chris Rodgers - Clinical Neurosciences
Professor James Rudd - Cardiovascular Medicine
Professor Mina Ryten - Clinical Neurosciences
Emmanuel A Stamatakis - Clinical Neurosciences
Dr Varun Warrier - Psychiatry
Integrating neuroimaging and genetics to identify drug targets for severe mental illness