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PhD Student

Explore the kinds of work and module choices associated with this pathway.

These examples draw on the choices of previous students. Use your programme requirements and discuss your own choices with the programme team.

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PhD researchers develop research questions and design studies to investigate them, using laboratory, computational or other appropriate methods. View larger illustration

What do they do?

A PhD student is at the beginning of their career and might go into either academic or industry. Many of our former students have gone on to pursue doctoral study.

What modules are relevant?

A student wishing to pursue a PhD might want to consider the following combination of modules:

  • GM1 · Fundamentals of human genetics and genomics

  • GM3 · Omics technologies and their application to genomic medicine

  • GM12 · Genomics of common and rare inherited disease

  • GM7 · Molecular pathology of cancer and application of genomics in cancer

  • GM8 · Pharmacogenomics and stratified healthcare

  • GM5 · Bioinformatics, interpretation and data quality assurance in genomic analysis (formerly Advanced Bioinformatics)

  • GM10 · Epigenetics and disorders of the epigenome

  • GM2 · Research and statistical skills for genomic medicine

  • Research Project (clinically focused)

"A future PhD student wants to ensure that they learn a sufficiently wide variety of genetic and bioinformatic techniques, they want to prioritise courses that teach analysis methods"

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