Cancer Institute MPhil/PhD

Research within the UCL Cancer Institute is diverse and spans various disciplines including molecular and cellular biology, cancer genetics, immunology, genetic engineering, cancer therapeutics and bioinformatics.

Research students on this programme join one of five research departments within UCL‘s Cancer Institute:

• Cancer Biology
• Haematology
• Oncology
• Pathology
• Clinical Trials.

You will develop your research hypothesis with your supervisors and undertake novel laboratory, bioinformatic or clinical research as part of their research team. You will regularly discuss your data and analyses with your supervisors and share your findings in a variety of forums, ideally leading to presentations at conferences and publication of your work.

Knowledge and skills development is a core priority of the programme, and you will be supported in this area by a supervisory team. In addition to your principal supervisor, you will have a thesis committee which comprises a secondary (subsidiary) supervisor and between one and three thesis committee members.

In your first year, you will have a compulsory training programme run by the Cancer Institute that will improve your research skills and provide networking opportunities. This is in addition to the optional research methods modules offered on the UCL Doctoral Skills Training Programme.