PhD Bioinformatics

Our bioinformatics doctoral research prepares our graduates as high-calibre scientists with expertise in bioinformatics.

Our doctoral training in bioinformatics offers the opportunity to analyse biological data including DNA sequence fragments through high-performance computing to bring to light novel and previously unknown mechanisms in human, animal and plant health.

We invite applications for doctoral research in various bioinformatics topic areas, including- precision medicine, pharmacogenomics, drugs target discovery, genomics, epigenetics, proteomics, metabolomics, metagenomics, transcriptomics, protein structure predictions, RNA Biology, multi-omics, cardiovascular genomics, human reproduction and pregnancy genomics, Automatic disease recognition (ADR), AI manipulation of health and industrial big data,, application of machine learning for prediction analysis,, disease modelling for human, animal or plant health, early disease prediction, rare and Common Variant analysis, clinical bioinformatics.

The minimum entry requirements for a research degree are:

a good first degree (First Class or Upper Second Class), or equivalent qualification in a relevant field
a Masters Degree (MA, MSc, MBA or MRes) with Merit, or equivalent postgraduate or research experience.
The minimum entry requirements for a research degree are:

a good first degree (First Class or Upper Second Class), or equivalent qualification in a relevant field
a Masters Degree (MA, MSc, MBA or MRes) with Merit, or equivalent postgraduate or research experience.
Competence in written and spoken English is a pre-requisite for entrance to this programme.
An IELTS (International English Language Testing System) score of 6.5 (with no element under 6.0).