PhD Studentships at the LRI (UK)

Doing a PhD is an exciting, challenging and stimulating experience that forms the foundation for your subsequent scientific career. Here at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute (LRI), the institute place great emphasis on our PhD student programme - graduate students are at the core of this scientific community.

The Institute has an international reputation for research into the basic biology of cancer and is committed to training the next generation of cancer research scientists. This commitment is reflected in the way we recruit and train our students, then prepare and advise them as they move on to the next stage in their career. Indeed, many of our former PhD students now head their own successful research laboratories at research institutes and universities throughout the world.

STIPENDS
LRI students are funded by four-year Cancer Research UK studentships. Students starting in 2009 will receive a non-taxable annual stipend of £19,060 (inner London - Lincoln's Inn Fields laboratories) or £17,740 (outer London - Clare Hall laboratories), with annual increments thereafter. University tuition fees (EU and non-EU) are also covered.

To find out more about the PhD programme, use the links on the left and download our PhD Programme Brochure (see Documents on the right).

To apply for entry to the 2009 PhD programme:
Read about the 2009 PhD places available (below).
Read the Application instructions 2009 (left hand link) carefully.
Complete your online application using the 'Apply Now' or 'Continue Application' buttons on the Application instructions 2009 page by 12.00 midnight GMT on Monday 24 November 2008.

Group Leaders recruiting PhD students to start in September 2009

Use the links below to find out more about their research and PhD projects, or download the PhD Project Descriptions document (see Documents on the right).

Clare Hall Laboratories
Vincenzo Costanzo - DNA damage and genome stability: Studying the role of ATM, ATR and the Mre11 complex in vertebrate organisms
John Diffley - DNA Replication Control in Cancer
Mark Petronczki - Dissecting the molecular mechanisms of cell division in mammalian cells using functional genomics
Jesper Svejstrup - Mechanisms connecting transcription to chromatin and the DNA damage response
Helle Ulrich - Control of genome stability by ubiquitin and SUMO

Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratories
Facundo Batista - Developing cutting-edge microscopy to visualize intra- and inter-cellular processes
Axel Behrens - Role of ATMIN in cancer
Julie Cooper - Telomere function through the cell cycle in fission yeast
Holger Gerhardt - Understanding the transcriptional control of endothelial cell-cell competition during sprouting angiogenesis
Caroline Hill - TGF-β signalling pathways in early vertebrate development and in tumorigenesis
David Ish-Horowicz - Transport and oscillators in Drosophila and vertebrate embryos
Taija Mäkinen - Identification of novel players involved in the development of the lymphatic vasculature
Peter Parker - Plasma membrane targets of MAPkinases in migration
Barry Thompson - Molecular Control of Epithelial Architecture
Takashi Toda - Mitotic spindle microtubules and genome stability control
Richard Treisman - Role of the SRF network in cell adhesion and metastasis
Banafshé Larijani - Molecular mechanisms of Protein Kinase B (PKB) activation
Frank Uhlmann - Chromosome segregation during mitosis
Helen Walden - Structural and functional studies of components of the ubiquitin pathway involved in cancer and neurodegeneration
Michael Way - The role of Kinase-Phosphatase signalling networks in the regulation of N-WASP -Arp2/3 complex dependent actin polymerization