Bioinformatics University of West London

Overview

The  Bioinformatics   course from the University of West London offers the opportunity to analyse biological data including DNA sequence fragments through high-performance computing to bring to light novel and previously unknown mechanisms in human, animal and plant health.

We invite applications for doctoral research in various bioinformatics topic areas, including:

• precision medicine

• pharmacogenomics

• drugs target discovery

• genomics

• epigenetics

• proteomics

• metabolomics

• metagenomics

• transcriptomics

• protein structure predictions

• RNA Biology

• multi-omics

• cardiovascular genomics

• human reproduction and pregnancy genomics

• Automatic disease recognition (ADR)

• AI manipulation of health and industrial big data,

• application of machine learning for prediction analysis,

• disease modelling for human, animal or plant health

• early disease prediction

• rare and Common Variant analysis

• clinical bioinformatics

Study & career progression

We will prepare you for a wide range of careers in healthcare, biotech industry, teaching and research – whether you want to work in the NHS, in academia, medical research laboratories, pharmaceutical research, the food industry, as a private therapist, in health education and public health or areas such as international aid and development.

Studying for a PhD enables you to develop an area of specialism that will give you an edge whether you are planning to work within the field of law or to develop expertise to teach in academia.

During your PhD, you will also be learning transferable core skills that apply to jobs both in and out of academia, including:

• written and oral communication

• research and information management

• public speaking   

• project management

• leadership

• critical Thinking

• collaboration

• analysis and problem-solving

• conflict resolution

• negotiation.