MRC Precision Medicine Doctoral training programme

Exciting Precision Medicine Projects at MRC Human Genetics Unit.

Applications for 2018/19 Precision Medicine Programme are now open. Deadline for applications - 5pm on Monday 16th April 2018.

For details of how to apply and to see other Precision Medicine PhD projects please visit

Precision Medicine Doctoral Training Programme

Human population genetic variation and disease causing alterations in microRNA processing

Professor Javier F. Caceres

Quantitative approaches to DNA-protein interactions using synthetic biology, high-throughput yeast one-hybrid assays and structural modelling of protein and DNA

Professor David FitzPatrick

Computational Methods for Predicting Changes in 3-D Chromosome Re-arrangement and Gene Deregulation in Human Disease

Professor Nick Gilbert

Gene-by-environment interactions in depression

Professor Chris Haley

Revealing the secrets of good and bad white adipose tissue stem cells through single-cell transcriptomic and epigenetic profiling

Professor Bob Hill

Identifying damaging mutations in ubiquitin signalling proteins

Dr Joe Marsh

Understanding dominant mutations that cause misassembly of cytoskeletal proteins: from patient genetics to cellular mechanisms

Dr Joe Marsh

Beyond Genomics: Using multiOmics data to explore disease causation

Dr Pau Navarro

Defining the landscape of gene-drug interactions for the 5-Nitrofuran anti-cancer drugs

Dr Liz Patton

Predictive models of cell state change in health and disease

Professor Chris Ponting

Using machine learning to understand the effects of mutations on the epigenome in cancer

Dr Duncan Sproul

Unmasking the ongoing and fine grained mutational spectra of pancreatic cancer

Professor Martin Taylor

Scalable Bayes for complex single-cell genomics data

Dr Catalina Vallejos