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Leicester Cancer Research Centre offers supervision for the degrees of:

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - full-time and part-time

Master of Philosophy (MPhil) - full-time and part-time

We also offer supervision for the degree of Doctor of Medicine (MD).

We offer PhD, MD, and MPhil supervision in Cancer Studies in areas compatible with the research interests of our academic staff including:

Liquid biopsy for early detection and stratification of cancer

Personalised treatment in B cell malignancies

Personalised medicine

Pre-clinical models enabling drug and biomarker discovery

Cancer prevention

PhD description

PhD students complete an independent research project under the guidance of a supervisory team. The research is normally completed over a maximum period of 3.0-3.5 years (full-time) or 6.0-6.5 years (part-time).

A fourth year (full-time) or seventh year (part-time) or the remaining part of this can be used to prepare the thesis for examination. The thesis should not normally exceed 50,000 words and must make an original contribution to knowledge and contain work of publishable quality. The thesis must then be defended in a viva voce (oral) examination before a degree can be awarded.