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PhD Studentship Computational Optimisation of Biopharmaceutical Drug Development Warwick Business School Operational Research and Management Sciences Group Apply before: 1 February 2018 The current “one-size-fits-all” approach to drug development is being challenged by a growing ability to treat patients as individuals, with patient populations identified for treatment by genetic pre-screening and diagnostics linked to a companion drug molecule; so-called stratified medicine. A major driver behind this development is the quickly growing biopharmaceutical industry. But as the technology is maturing, the ability to implement processes efficiently becomes increasingly critical for a company’s success in this new market. To address the manufacturing, business and regulatory challenges and to ensure that new targeted biological medicines can be developed quickly and manufactured at a cost affordable to society, EPSRC has recently funded a £10Mio Future Targeted Manufactuing Healthcare Hub (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/biochemeng/research/hub). Associated with this Hub, Warwick Business School is offering one fully-funded PhD scholarship in the area of computational optimisation of biopharmaceutical drug development. The successful applicant will be working with a first class team of researchers at Warwick and other leading universities in the UK. An MSc/MEng in a relevant area is required. We expect excellent communication skills and experience in programming. The studentship is open to Home/EU and international/overseas students for 4 years from October 2018. It covers fees at home/EU student rates (which is estimated as £4,270 for 2018 entry), and a stipend to cover living cost of ca. £14,296 per annum. Applicants who will be liable for fees at the international rate are welcome, but will have to make up the difference between home/EU and overseas fees. More information can be found at https://www.wbs.ac.uk/wbs2012/assets/PDF/downloads/doctoral/PhD_scholarship_in_computational_optimisation_ORMS_group.pdf The application for this scholarship will remain open until a suitable candidate has been identified. Reviewing will begin on Thursday 1 February 2018. For questions about the project, please feel free to contact Prof Juergen Branke, University of Warwick, [log in to unmask]