36 monthsProgramme duration
36,500 GBPTuition Fee/year
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Medicine
Degree
PhD
Study Level
PHD
Study Mode
On Campus
Research degree studies at the UCL Cancer Institute provide students with a supportive yet intellectually rigorous environment to develop their research skills, subject knowledge and critical review abilities. Excellent facilities, supervision and training opportunities prepare students for careers in academia, industry, business, biomedicine and healthcare.
Research within the UCL Cancer Institute is diverse and entails various disciplines such as molecular and cellular biology, cancer genetics, immunology, genetic engineering, cancer therapeutics and bioinformatics. There are five research departments within the Cancer Institute:
- Cancer Biology
- Haematology
- Oncology
- Pathology
- Clinical Trials Centre
Research areas:
- Antibody-based therapeutics for imaging and treatment of cancer
- Brain cancer and stem cells
- Cellular and gene therapy for cancer and other blood-related disorders
- Chromosomal DNA replication and cancer
- Effects of tumour biology on therapeutic response, tumour immunology
- Epigenetic changes and cancer
- Genetics of sarcoma, acute leukaemia, chronic leukaemia and myoproliferative diseases
- Medical genomics, cancer systems, science and biomedical informatics
- Signalling networks
- Stratified/personalised cancer medicine
- Therapeutic drug-DNA interactions
- Translational projects, clinical trials and epidemiology
- Viral oncology.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Medicine
Degree
PhD
Study Level
PHD
Study Mode
On Campus
Research degree studies at the UCL Cancer Institute provide students with a supportive yet intellectually rigorous environment to develop their research skills, subject knowledge and critical review abilities. Excellent facilities, supervision and training opportunities prepare students for careers in academia, industry, business, biomedicine and healthcare.
Research within the UCL Cancer Institute is diverse and entails various disciplines such as molecular and cellular biology, cancer genetics, immunology, genetic engineering, cancer therapeutics and bioinformatics. There are five research departments within the Cancer Institute:
- Cancer Biology
- Haematology
- Oncology
- Pathology
- Clinical Trials Centre
Research areas:
- Antibody-based therapeutics for imaging and treatment of cancer
- Brain cancer and stem cells
- Cellular and gene therapy for cancer and other blood-related disorders
- Chromosomal DNA replication and cancer
- Effects of tumour biology on therapeutic response, tumour immunology
- Epigenetic changes and cancer
- Genetics of sarcoma, acute leukaemia, chronic leukaemia and myoproliferative diseases
- Medical genomics, cancer systems, science and biomedical informatics
- Signalling networks
- Stratified/personalised cancer medicine
- Therapeutic drug-DNA interactions
- Translational projects, clinical trials and epidemiology
- Viral oncology.
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