Submitting a Project Proposal

Information on the project proposal process

Our vision is to train the next generation of research leaders expert in informatics-based approaches and biomedical technologies who are thus able to unravel disease mechanisms and devise new therapies.  Projects must be designed to equip the student with quantitative skills (e.g. statistics, computation, bioinformatics) in the context of their work which may involve one or more data sources. 

Prior to recruitment each year we run a project call whereby potential supervisors are invited to submit project proposals. All project proposals will be reviewed by at least two members of the Precision Medicine Academic Steering Committee and the final list of projects for advertisment will be decided by the DTP leadership group. 

Staff are asked to submit an application form requesting information including:

• Supervisor(s) information
• Project Description
• Project Timeplan
• Alignment with MRC DTP Themes
• Information on collaborative nature of project

Projects that cross institutions or that include Industry are strongly encouraged, and these elements are scored positively during the internal review process. The programme aims by its end for 30% of projects to feature a Karolinska co-supervisor.  iCASE proposals are also particularly welcomed.  The requirements of industrial partners in iCASE projects are summarised here:

iCase non-academic partner responsibilities (135.26 KB PDF)

The application form for 2024 entry can be found here as an example:

PM DTP Project Call Form (2.63 MB Word)

All project proposals will be reviewed by two members of the Precision Medicine Academic Steering Committee and the final list of projects for advertisement decided by the Committee. 

Timeline