Cancer Institute MPhil/PhD

A full or part-time research degree at the UCL Cancer Institute offers an unrivalled foundation for building a career in cancer. World-class facilities, expert supervision and wide-ranging training opportunities will give you the skills and network to help shape cancer research and practice in academia, biomedicine, or healthcare. Research within the UCL Cancer Institute is diverse and spans various disciplines including molecular and cellular biology, cancer genetics, immunology, genetic engineering, cancer therapeutics and bioinformatics.Research students on this programme join one of four research departments within UCL's Cancer Institute: Cancer Biology and Pathology. Haematology. Oncology. Clinical Trials. You will develop your research hypothesis with your supervisors and undertake novel laboratory, bioinformatic or clinical research as part of their research team. You will regularly discuss your data and analyses with your supervisors and share your findings in a variety of forums, ideally leading to presentations at conferences and publication of your work. Knowledge and skills development is a core priority of the programme, and you will be supported in this area by a supervisory team. In addition to your principal supervisor, you will have a thesis committee which comprises a secondary (subsidiary) supervisor and between one and three thesis committee members. In your first year, you will have a compulsory training programme run by the Cancer Institute that will improve your research skills and provide networking opportunities. This is in addition to the optional research methods modules offered on the UCL Doctoral Skills Training Programme. This course will appeal to high achieving students who want to join a world-class centre in cancer research. It is suitable if you have a strong academic background as a clinician, scientist, or other profession focused on cancer. We welcome students come from around the world and your study will be based in London.

A minimum of an upper second-class UK Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard.