Leeds partakes in the Medical Research Foundation PhD programme

The Medical Research Foundation, charitable arm of the Medical Research Council, has launched its first ever national antimicrobial resistance doctoral training programme.

Leeds is among the participating universities and will recruit fully-funded PhD students to specialise in research in the field. They will contribute to the drive to find new antibiotics or ways to improve diagnoses of infections.

Among the other partners in the £2.85 million programme are the University of Bristol, Imperial College London, the Nuffield Department of Medicine at Oxford.

Leeds will start to recruit new PhD students in November 2017 - January 2018 to start in October 2018.