Department of Cardiovascular Medicine

The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics

An EU-funded PhD Studentship is available to commence October 2007. The project will be supervised jointly by Prof. Martin Farrall and Dr. Andrew Morris within the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics at the University of Oxford. The studentship is open to UK and EU nationals. The studentship will provide a stipend, university and college fees, research and travel expenses.

A highly motivated research student is sought to join GABRIEL, a multidisciplinary EU-funded research programme to identify key factors in the development of asthma. The student will develop novel statistical methods to analyse genome-wide gene-association studies and apply them to map susceptibility for asthma and associated quantitative traits. Further details of the research project are available at http://www.well.ox.ac.uk/~mfarrall and http://www.gabriel-fp6.org.

Candidates must hold a good honours degree (first or upper second class for UK graduates or equivalent for EU applicants); statistics and/or maths graduates are encouraged to apply (training in population and quantitative genetics will be provided if necessary).

Application
Applications, quoting reference V6/EU/MF Studentship, to include a covering letter, c.v. and the names and addresses of two academic referees should be sent to:

Kathryn Smith
Room 5810
Dept. Cardiovascular Medicine
John Radcliffe Hospital
Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU

or by email to postmaster@cardiov.ox.ac.uk

Shortlisted applicants will be invited to complete an application form for graduate study at the University of Oxford. Informal enquiries to Prof. Farrall and Dr. Morris are encouraged (email mfarrallatwell.ox.ac.uk or amorrisatwell.ox.ac.uk). The closing date for applications is 30th April 2007 with interviews to be held in early May 2007.