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Wellcome Sanger Institute PhD Scholarship Programme 2023

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The application process for the 2023 intake of the Wellcome Sanger Institute 4-year PhD Programme is open and the closing date is Thursday 1st December 2022 (09:00 GMT).

Students apply to the programme rather than to specific Faculty members, and spend the first eight months of the programme undertaking three rotation projects in different research groups.

This ensures exposure to different disciplines in genomics, and allows the students to gain a better overall picture of the scientific nature of the Institute and the different technologies that are available. In particular, all students are required to carry out at least one informatics rotation and one experimental laboratory rotation.

This helps students to develop wide ranging skills both at the bench and in data analysis.

Students are required to write a short report or prepare a poster, and make a presentation to the group, at the end of each project.

Selection of the final PhD project laboratory is by mutual consent between the student and supervisor and takes place during the third rotation period.

Students at the Wellcome Sanger Institute are awarded a University of Cambridge PhD degree.

The Wellcome Sanger Institute was granted affiliation with the University of Cambridge as a ‘University Partner Institution’ in 1995.

All postgraduate students at the Institute are registered with the University and are members of a Cambridge College

Financial support

Our funded studentships provide full financial support, including University tuition fees, regardless of nationality. Visa and immigration health surcharge costs will be reimbursed for international students. Current tax-free stipends paid by the Wellcome Sanger Institute are shown below.

Financial support as of October 2022
YearStipend
1st year£22,000 p.a.
2nd year£22,000 p.a.
3rd year£24,000 p.a.
4th year£24,000 p.a.

How to apply

You have to apply to the programme rather than to specific Faculty members.

If you have any questions about the application process, please look at the FAQs below. If you need further assistance, contact the Graduate Programme Office.

Please note that the Graduate Programme Office is unable to comment on whether you are a suitable candidate for our 4-year PhD programme.

Academic requirements

Candidates are expected to hold, or be about to achieve, a 1st or a good 2:1 class degree or an equivalent overseas qualification.

If overseas applicants, who have not studied in the UK or EU, have GRE scores, they should include them in their application, as the results from this standardised test enable us to more easily compare applicants from different countries.

Competence in English

If your first language is not English you will need to meet the University of Cambridge’s English language requirements, although you do not have to fulfil this requirement before submitting your online application to the Wellcome Sanger Institute.

However, if you are offered a place on our programme, you will need to fulfil this requirement before you can be admitted to the University of Cambridge.

Application procedure

You need to complete the Wellcome Sanger Institute on-line application form.

Closing date for applications for the 2023 intake is Thursday 1st December 2022 (09:00 GMT)

When completing the on-line application form you will need to:

  • Provide details of your academic qualifications
  • Outline any relevant work experience (max 200 words)

  • Choose 3 Faculty members whose research area interests you (see our potential supervisors page for information on Faculty members and their research areas)

  • Outline your research interests and indicate how these fit with the research interests of the Sanger Institute (max 200 words)

  • Write a personal statement on your research experience, research interests and career goals, explaining why you wish to pursue postgraduate training at the Sanger Institute (max 400 words)

  • Provide details of two academic referees (one of these can be the supervisor of an industrial or research placement)
  • Upload your University transcript(s) (and GRE scores if available) as a PDF file

You should request and receive your transcript(s) from your institution (in a form that can be embedded in a document) before you begin your application so that you have them ready to upload.

If you are currently studying you should upload a transcript with the marks you have obtained so far.

Once you have completed the first page of the application form, a URL with a unique identifier will be generated, which you should bookmark.

If you want to continue the application process at a later time you can use this URL to return to your incomplete form.

Once you have submitted your completed application form:

  • You will receive a confirmation email
  • Your chosen referees will receive an email asking them to submit an online reference for you

Please ensure that you have provided the correct institutional email address for your referees and that they have agreed to provide a reference for you. Once a referee has submitted their reference:

  • Your referee will receive a confirmation email
  • You will receive a confirmation email

It is your responsibility to ensure your referees have submitted their reference by Thursday 8th December 2022 (09:00 GMT) at the latest.

The final deadline for the receipt of references is only one week after the application deadline. Therefore, please do not leave your application until the last minute as this does not leave much time for your referees to respond.

Please note that without references your application will not be processed.

If you are unable to upload your transcript(s), please contact the Graduate Programme Office and include your URL/unique identifier in the email.


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