Overview

The tight interaction with the KICancer and the Cancer Research KI networks offers meeting venues for tutors and researchers (national and international), identifies issues that are relevant in the field, discusses the need of infrastructures or the use of the current ones, favors collaboration between different disciplines, including epidemiology, patient-oriented clinical research and basic biomedical research.

Features

This Tumour Biology and Oncology programme at Karolinska Institute is supervised and integrated with the Cancer Research KI.
The programme promotes interactive research, favours a good environment for the doctoral studies, with the long-term vision to prepare the students for their future career.
Doctoral courses are key components and tailored to knowledge acquisition (basic and advanced) and development of critical thinking.
A national school for clinical cancer research students was initiated from the network, and its very good outcomes inspires the FoTO-programme to analyse this as a concept for the whole programme.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Tumor Biology and Oncology
Tumor Histopathology
Tumor Immunology and Immune Therapy of Cancer
Tumor Microenvironment
Cancer Cell Metabolism
Artificial Intelligence in Cancer Precision Medicine
Advanced Cancer Biology
Genome Instability in Cancer Development and Therapy

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

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Language

English

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90

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62

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IELTS

6.5

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Credits

240 ECTS

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Stockholm, Sweden

Disciplines

Biology Medicine View 14 other PhDs in Biology in Sweden

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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90

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PTE Academic

62

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IELTS

6.5

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Other requirements

General requirements

A prospective doctoral student meets the general entry requirement for doctoral education if he or she:

has been awarded a degree at advanced (equivalent to second-cycle in Sweden) level, or,
has satisfied the requirements for courses comprising at least 240 credits (ECTS) of which at least 60 credits (ECTS) were awarded at advanced level, or
has acquired substantially equivalent knowledge in some other way in Sweden or abroad.

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Tuition Fees

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Free
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Free

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PhD students are not charged tuition fees.

Living costs

Stockholm

Sweden

9668 - 17248 SEK / month

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