Summer Vacation Scholarships
The ICR will be offering a limited number of undergraduate vacation placements in summer 2012. Students will complete a 6-8 week research project under the supervision of a research team at one of our sites in Chelsea (London) or Sutton (Surrey).
Placements will be offered to exceptional students in the middle years (i.e 2nd of 3, 2nd/3rd of 4) of their undergraduate degrees.
Available Placements
The following Research Teams are inviting applications from undergraduates interested in summer vacation projects in their Team:
- Cell Cycle Control
Division of Cancer Therapeutics
Team Leader: Michelle Garrett
Project suited to students with a background in biology subjects (biochemistry, medical biochemistry/pharmacology, cell biology) - Clinical Trials and Statistics Unit
Division of Clinical Studies
Team Leader: Dr Emma Hall
Project suited to students with a background in statistics and in particular medical statistics - Computational Biology and Chemogenomics
Division of Cancer Therapeutics
Team Leader: Dr Bissan Al-Lazikani
Project suited to students with a background in biology subjects (biochemistry, molecular biology, natural sciences) or with a background in organic chemistry or pharmacology - Medicinal Chemistry 1
Division of Cancer Therapeutics
Team Leader: Prof Julian Blagg
Contact Dr Sebastien Naud
Project suited to students with a background in Chemistry - Medicinal Chemistry 3
Division of Cancer Therapeutics
Team Leader: Prof Keith Jones
Project suited to students with a background in Chemistry - Pre-clinical Imaging Team
Division of Radiotherapy and Imaging
Team Leader: Dr Simon Robinson
Contact Dr Simon Robinson and Lauren Baker
Project suited to students with a background in biology subjects
How to apply
You must e-mail directly the Team Leader or contact person of the team in which you would like to undertake a summer vacation project. You should contact them by e-mail (please do not telephone), and do not contact the Team Leader if an alternative person is specified. Send your CV (include your year of study and whether you have had a summer placement before) and a brief summary of why you would like to undertake a project in their team.
If a Team Leader is willing to host you for a summer vacation project, they will submit an application for scholarship funding on your behalf. The deadline for submission of applications by supervisors is 24th February 2012, so please make contact well in advance of this date. Scholarship funding will be allocated through a competitive selection process, and applications that are successful will be announced in early April.
Demand for these scholarships will be high so we cannot guarantee that Team Leaders/contact persons will be able to respond to all enquiries they receive. If you have not been contacted by 24th February 2012 please assume that your application was not successful this time.
You can also contact Dr Angela McDonald for further information.
