Studentships 2012/13

The following students are available for 2012/13. Further studentships will be added soon.

Studentship 1:  A chemical alternative to phospho-specific antibodies: synthetic tools for phosphoproteome analysis (Professor Alan Spivey and Dr Rudiger Woscholski)

Studentship 2:  Chemical patho-metabolomics: metabolite driven molecular tools to dissect PI(4,5)P2 dependent signalling pathways (Professor Ramon Vilar and Dr Rudiger Woscholski) - Filled

Studentship 3:  Nanopatterned cell culture substrates to investigate Natural Killer cell receptor signalling (Dr Iain Dunlop and Professor Dan Davis) - Filled

Studentship 4:  Single-cell chemical proteomics: understanding protein modification in health and disease (Dr Ed Tate, Dr Oscar Ces and Professor David Klug) - Filled

Studentship 5:  Controlling protein-protein interactions by exploiting biological membranes as information highways (Dr Oscar Ces, Dr Sophia Yaliraki, Professor Paul Freemont and Dr Laura Barter) 

Studentship 6:  Bio-inspired routes to ¹¹C-labelled molecules for PET (Three-year PhD project with Professor Nick Long and Professor Tony Gee, Kings College London) 

Studentship 7:  Detection of binding and geometry determination of drug-protein interactions in a kinase binding site from EVV 2DIR Data (Professor David Klug, Professor Keith Willison and Dr Alex Breeze) - Filled

Studentship 8: Photocontrol of Ion Channels: Chemical Biology Tools for Drug Discovery (Professor Alan Armstrong and Dr Kenji Okuse) - Filled

Studentship 9: Diagnosing Cancer one Cell at a Time with Single Molecule Spectroscopy (Professor David Klug, Professor Charles Coombes, Professor Keith Willison and Professor Simak Ali)

This page will be constantly updated with all our current studentship vacancies. If you have any enquires, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Last updated: 8 February 2012.

Students Wishing to Apply for Studentships

PLEASE NOTE: PhD studentships are restricted to UK students with a good degree in the physical sciences (2.1 or above (or equivalent)). EU Students who have studied continuously in the UK for more than 3 years may also be elgible. Non-UK students are welcome to apply if they are able to self fund the 4 year programme.

PLEASE NOTE: Non-EU students are welcome to apply to any of our MRes courses if they are able to be self fund through the course.

MRes + PhD Chemical Biology of Health & Disease (1+3 years)

Please see the studentships listed above.

MRes Chemical Biology of Health & Disease - Offered as a 1 Year Standalone Course

Application for this MRes course is now open. Please see course information and application details. Places are available for international students who are able to self-fund.

MRes in Crop Sustainability and Protection

These scholarships are open to all students who have made an application for admission to study on the full time Master’s course MRes in Crop Sustainability and Protection. 

All students who wish to be considered for this scholarship should apply by submitting a copy of their CV by email to Institute of Chemical Biology (icbadmin@imperial.ac.uk) in addition to submitting a College Postgraduate Application Form.

Applications will be assessed by the course directors and scholarship(s) awarded on the basis of academic merit.