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4-year PhD studentships in Cardiovascular Epidemiology The Department of Public Health & Primary Care at the University of Cambridge is looking for applicants with strong quantitative skills who wish to undertake a PhD programme in Cardiovascular Epidemiology, commencing in October 2014. Successful applicants will enter the Quantitative Stream of the prestigious 4-year PhD programme in Cardiovascular Research funded by the British Heart Foundation. In the first year, the students will undertake the MPhil in Epidemiology with an 8-week research project in the third term. Successful candidates will then progress to a 3-year PhD thesis project in the area of Population Health & Genomics, linking human genetics, genomics and population health sciences to cardiovascular disease research. The programme will provide the opportunity to work with world-leading researchers from the School of Medicine, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the Institute of Public Health. Applicants will require a 2:1 degree or higher in a related quantitative subject, such as Maths, Statistics or similar. Support includes a stipend (currently £19,919 for years one and two, £21,542 for year three and £23,298 for year four), PhD registration fees at UK/EU student rate, research expenses and some travel costs. Before applying please check your eligibility under BHF residency requirements. Further Information & Applications Application details are available at: www-cardiovascular.medschl.cam.ac.uk/phd Informal enquiries should be directed to Dr Adam Butterworth at: [log in to unmask] Closing date 2nd January 2014. Short-listed candidates will be invited for interview w/c 20th January 2014. Please quote RH02325 on all correspondence. You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.