MRC Industrial CASE Studentships

Medical Research Council

The Medical Research Council is committed to developing and sustaining a close and productive alignment with industry in the UK. As part of that commitment the MRC will be funding approximately 30-35 individual Industry CASE PhD studentships in 2011/12, to be taken up in 2012. As previously we aim to award at least five of these to Small & Medium Sized Enterprises, which we successfully exceeded last year following the introduction of more flexible requirements for SME partners.

Each Industrial CASE student will have two committed PhD supervisors, one academic and one from the industry partner. They will offer their outstanding student an experience of two research cultures and access to a wider than usual range of technology, facilities and expertise. The student will benefit from a diversity of experimental approaches, while undertaking cutting-edge hypothesis driven research with a translational and perhaps clinical dimension.

On completing their PhD, the student will have gained advanced research and generic skills that should enhance their future employability. Many will become research leaders in the future.