This PhD programme, available full-time or part-time, provides you with research training in basic and translational science from internationally recognised leaders in infection and immunity. Develop your research skills in world-class facilities, as part of a research team dedicated to improving prevention, diagnosis, intervention, and treatment of disease. Learning from world-leading researchers, you will study the mechanisms that cause and spread pathogens, and work in close collaboration with scientists who are helping to improve prevention, diagnosis, intervention, and treatment of infectious and immunological diseases on a global scale. Our graduate training spans human immunology, cancer immunology, pathogen biology and the host-pathogen interaction. The UCL Division of Infection and Immunity is an internationally renowned centre of research excellence. It includes the Research Department of Infection and the Institute of Immunity and Transplantation, based at the Pears building. We have strong international links with American, European, and developing world research centres, including the African Health Research Institute in Durban (South Africa). One of our key strengths is our work at the interface between basic research and clinical medicine, fostered by UCL Partners, a consortium linking UCL with local major hospital trusts. Our infection and immunology research is helping to advance knowledge and support clinical services in many of the hospitals UCL is linked to. We regularly train clinician scientists, supported by fellowships from the Wellcome Trust, Medical Research Council (MRC), Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Rosetrees Trust and others. You will join a dynamic community of postgraduate students, and benefit from career development advice from supervisors and thesis committees throughout your programme. This programme is suitable if you have a relevant undergraduate or postgraduate degree and a keen interest in infection and immunology research. Admission to the programme is highly competitive with a mix of UK and international students. To gain a place, you will need to have some research experience and to have excelled academically, including in your dissertation research project.
