The University of Cambridge Graduate Training Programme in Medicinal Chemistry has been awarded a grant worth approximately £3M from the cancer charity Cancer Research UK.
The University of Cambridge Graduate Training Programme in Medicinal Chemistry has been awarded a grant worth approximately £3M from the cancer charity Cancer Research UK.
The Programme will link the University’s world-renowned Department of Chemistry with the new Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute at Addenbrooke's Hospital and an array of other research departments and institutes that operate across the Cambridge Biomedical Campus including Oncology, Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Pathology.
Linking departments in this inter-disciplinary way presents a great opportunity for students who seek an integrated PhD training across chemistry and cancer biology.
Cancer Research UK is awarding £10M in total for a Medicinal Chemistry Training Programme funding for five UK universities. Each university and research institute will receive a grant that will allow them to fund, in total, 60 PhD studentships in medicinal chemistry over the next five years.
Professor Alison Richard, Vice Chancellor at the University of Cambridge said:
“One of the distinctive features of Cambridge University is our strength across the range of academic disciplines. Close inter-departmental collaboration such as this adds an exceptional dimension to teaching and research – and this newly-funded partnership between Cambridge's science departments and Clinical School could not be more important.”
Cancer Research UK is also funding the Northern Institute for Cancer Research, University of Newcastle upon Tyne; University of Edinburgh and University of St Andrews; Imperial College, London; and University of Oxford.
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