Imperial College London
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
EU Funded PhD Studentships in "Stochastic modelling of radiation-induced cancer and the radiation-induced bystander effect"
Applications are invited for a 3-year PhD studentship starting November-December 2004. Applicants should have a first degree in statistics, mathematics, computer science, or related quantitative discipline, at least at the UK upper 2nd level, or equivalent. You must be a resident of the European Union. For UK residents the studentship will provide fees plus the standard MRC stipend, currently UKP 13,500 p.a., as well as contributions to research expenses and conference fees.
The PhD is funded as part of the Euratom RISC-RAD consortium, and will involve the student fitting stochastic carcinogenesis models (along the lines of those recently developed by Little and Wright Math. Biosci. 2003:183:111-34) to experimental data on cancer in radiation-exposed mice. The project will also entail developing models of the radiation-induced bystander effect and fitting them to in vitro cellular data. It will involve extensive collaboration with scientists in the UK, Finland, Germany, Holland and various other EU countries.
The successful applicants will be based within the Biostatistics group at the St Mary's, Paddington, campus of Imperial College. The group currently includes 5 academic staff, 9 post-doctoral research staff and 7 PhD students. More generally, Imperial College offers internationally-leading facilities and research environment, including a Bioinformatics Research Centre and Bioinformatics Support Service (www.bioinformatics.ic.ac.uk), and a range of computing facilities including the London E-science Centre (www.lesc.imperial.ac.uk).
For an informal discussion or further details please contact Mark Little:
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Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
Imperial College, St Mary's Campus
Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG
Phone +44 (0)20 7594 3312 Fax 7402 2150
For an application pack please contact postgraduate registry:
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Please also send a full CV, including contact details of two referees,
and a covering letter explaining your research interests, to Simon
Sheffield, either by e-mail, fax or post.
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Simon Sheffield,
Departmental Manager,
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health,
Imperial College Faculty of Medicine,
Norfolk Place ,London W2 1PG
Deadline for applications 27th August 2004
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