The Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine offers at least five studentships on their Doctoral Training Programme in Medical Research (SCM DTP-MR), commencing in October 2022. Each studentship is fully-funded for four years with a stipend of £18,000 p.a. and includes all course fees, plus a research training support grant. You can find more information about this studentship here

Five Industrial MRC CASE (iCASE) studentships will be available for doctoral study at Cambridge, to start in October 2022. Each studentship is fully-funded for four years with a stipend of £18,000 p.a, and includes all course fees, plus a research training support grant. You can find more information about this studentship, including how to apply here.

The Experimental Medicine Initiative to Explore New Therapies (EMINENT) is a unique partnership between UK academia and GSK to increase our understanding of disease mechanisms through experimental medicine.  EMINENT represents a unique collaborative network, funded up to £8M by the MRC matched in-kind by GSK. Bringing together investigators from University College London (UCL), the University of Cambridge, the University of Glasgow, the University of Newcastle, Imperial College London and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), with unprecedented access to GSK’s unlicenced clinic-ready asset portfolio to enable experimental medicine studies aimed at enhancing understanding of disease mechanisms and accelerating development of novel therapeutics for patients in under-served disease areas. PECAT provides the administrative support at Cambridge and posts are advertised here as they come online. For further information please click here.

Open to US citizens only – the NIH OxCam Scholars Program is a collaborative 4-year PhD doctoral programme for students seeking to pursue a career in biomedical research. You can find out more about NIH OxCam here.

The Cambridge Trust offers a number of scholarships for postgraduate students. You do not need to apply to the Trust directly for funding, rather a request for funding can be made as part of your application for admission to the University. You can find out more about The Cambridge Trust here.

The Gates Cambridge Scholarship programme offers full-cost scholarships to outstanding applicants from countries outside the UK to pursue a full-time postgraduate degree in any subject available at the University of Cambridge. You can find out more about the programme here

The EMI offers fully funded PhD Studentship posts of 3-3½ years in length depending on the experience of the candidate. Funding for these posts is provided jointly by the EMI programme and the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Centre, and covers the student’s stipend, university tuition and college fees as well as a fixed amount towards relevant education, training and travel. You can find out more about the EMI here.

The Harding Scholars Programme offers at least 25 full-funded scholarships each year. The aim of the Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholars Programme (HDPSP) is to support academically outstanding University of Cambridge PhD students from any part of the world, and in any discipline, to contribute to society by producing intellectually rigorous research which makes a positive difference to the academic community and beyond. You can find out more about the programme, including how to apply here.

To be eligible to apply for the fellowships, you must be qualified in clinical, dental or veterinary medicine, or be a non-medical health professional registered with a national professional regulatory body in the UK (please see FAQs for eligibility). In addition, medical, dental and veterinary applicants must be in a training grade (i.e., not a Consultant, University Faculty or equivalent position). Up to seven fellowships are offered each year with a single round of admissions. Find out more here, including the eligibility criteria

The CRUK Cambridge Centre runs an innovative MRes/PhD programme comprising of a first year MRes degree with three components:

-Two 15 week research rotations

-A weekly ‘Lectures in Cancer Studies’ series and 1 week intensive teaching in genomic medicine, to cover the wide breadth of basic and applied cancer biology

-A 1-2 week placement in a patient-facing setting to give insight into the rewards andchallenges of cancer research

Successful completion of the 1 year MRes programme, including assessment of rotation project write-ups and defence of a PhD proposal, will lead on to a 3 year PhD, usually in one of the rotation project host laboratories. Five CRUK Cambridge Centre MRes + PhD studentships are available for non-clinical applicants, to commence in October 2023. The CRUK Cambridge Centre MRes + PhD studentships include full funding from Cancer Research UK to cover the University Composition Fee (at Home/EU rate), a travel and consumables budget, and a generous stipend, which is currently £19,000 per annum. In addition, the CRUK Cambridge Centre and the Cambridge Commonwealth, European and International Trust provide joint funding for two overseas non-clinical student each academic year.

Research projects and more information about the programme can be found here.

Students apply directly via the Postgraduate Applicant Portal.

Cancer Research UK (CRUK) has developed a new programme aimed at students from Black heritage backgrounds pursuing a PhD in cancer-related fields.

This scheme is open to people who self-identify as being from a Black heritage background, including a mixed background, for example: Black African, Black Caribbean, Black Other, Mixed background (to include Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black backgrounds).

Two studentships are to be held at the CRUK Cambridge Centre being part of the existing MRes/PhD programme in Cancer Biology. In addition to the support offered by the training programme, as a postgraduate student on this scheme you will offered a comprehensive programme of mentoring, career support, leadership training and networking led by the Windsor Fellowship and Black in Cancer.

Successful completion of the 1 year MRes programme, including assessments of two rotation project write-ups and defence of a PhD proposal, will lead on to a 3 year PhD, usually in one of the rotation project host laboratories.

Two CRUK Cambridge Centre MRes + PhD studentships are available for non-clinical applicants in this scheme, to commence in October 2023. The CRUK Cambridge Centre MRes + PhD studentships include full funding from Cancer Research UK to cover the University Composition Fee(at Home/EU rate), a travel and consumables budget, and a generous stipend, which is currently£19,000 per annum. In addition, the CRUK Cambridge Centre and the Cambridge Commonwealth, European and International Trust provide joint funding for two overseas non-clinical student each academic year.

Research projects and more information about the programme can be found here.

Students apply directly via the Postgraduate Applicant Portal.

One of the main principles of the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre is the open exchange of scientific knowledge and skills across the many disciplines involved in cancer science, creating a culture of continuous learning and development for all members. In keeping with this aim, the Centre also supports a broad programme of formal education and training designed to nurture the next generation of cancer researchers and clinicians.

We provide funding for Clinical Research Training Fellowships comprising of a 3-year PhD for candidates who have completed their medical training.

By being part of the CRUK Cambridge Centre, clinical students will also have the opportunity to attend a number of lecture series, workshops and meetings aimed at facilitating and strengthening collaborations between complementary disciplines and across different departments and institutes.

Find out more.