Engineering Biology University of Bristol

Overview

University of Bristol's Engineering Biology programme has the potential to provide innovative solutions to these challenges by harnessing biology in new ways and creating biomimetic and engineered living systems capable of surpassing what is possible from single-discipline approaches.

The Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Engineering Biology (EngBio CDT) will provide bespoke cohort-based training with a focus on how synthetic biology concepts and technologies can be translated into products with real-world impact.

Career prospects

As this is a new course for 2024-25, there is no graduate destination data. However, for context, graduates of the Synthetic Biology programme which preceded this Engineering Biology cohort-based training programme, progressed into industry (50%), academia (40%), and startups (10%).

The EngBioCDT has strong links with leading academics and institutions worldwide. Our partners, including those we already approached at the J. Craig Venter Institute, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Rice University, Stanford University and at the Universities of Boston, Colorado Boulder, Ghent, Naples and Saarland, will provide:

• access to online training materials;

• guest lectures;

• student secondments;

• bespoke technical training in areas of specific expertise;

• co-mentoring on specific projects.