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This DTP programme leverages the strengths and acumen of Imperial College and Royal Holloway to deliver a cohort of scientists with the necessary training to address major social and economic challenges identified by the BBSRC.
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The British Heart Foundation (BHF) Centre of Research Excellence at Imperial aims to promote innovative, world-leading cardiovascular research and training at the interface of science, technology and medicine.
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The Centre for Neurotechnology is hosted by Imperial's Institute of Biomedical Engineering. It aims to foster collaborative research at the interface of neuroscience and engineering across the Faculties of Engineering, Medicine and Natural Sciences, as well as with satellites at Oxford and the Crick Institute.
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The DST CDT brings together a consortium of eight universities – Warwick, Aberystwyth, Bristol, Cardiff, Imperial, Newcastle, Oxford, and Strathclyde – and forty academic partners who provide the necessary complementary research excellence and breadth to enable transformative breakthroughs in DST.
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Addressing questions about matter and energy, such as the origin of mass and the observed asymmetry between matter and anti-matter. Much of the Imperial HEP programme is directed at discovering where the Standard Model will break down, since theoretical expectations imply that it cannot be the final story.
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The Institute of Chemical Biology Centre for Doctoral Training (ICB CDT) trains PhD students in the art of multidisciplinary Chemical Biology research through a combination of taught courses and research and empowers students to become future leaders in this field.
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A comprehensive PhD programme in Medical Imaging, specifically designed to meet the challenges in healthcare and medical imaging. Imperial collaborates with King's College London to create an interdisciplinary training approach specifically designed to provide a unique PhD experience.
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Promoting and support stronger collaboration between Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, with industrial partners AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Syngenta and Lilly.
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The research prominence of Imperial's Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics (AMMP) section, and its national and international standing, hinges on the success of its doctoral training environment and vibrant research environment.
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Advancing the frontiers of our knowledge in biomedical and biological engineering and biomimetics. Our PhD students foster the intellectual capabilities and practical skills needed to work with engineers, clinicians and scientists from varied academic backgrounds.
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Training with a focus on ecosystems and relevant evolutionary processes, linking theory with data collection, assimilation, analysis, interpretation and visualisation, leading to prediction, with modelling at its core.
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Based at the Grantham Institute, this innovative and prestigious NERC-funded programme trains and inspires a new generation of environmental experts and leaders to tackle some of the toughest challenges of our time.
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The Wellcome Trust programme provides an outstanding opportunity for PhD students to train in areas of basic science that have direct relevance to the development of novel approaches to the prevention and treatment of infection.
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View a list of projects conducted by our postgraduate students.
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View the Agri Futures Lab postgraduate projects archive.