Advanced Therapies for Regenerative Medicine
WELLCOME TRUST PHD TRAINING PROGRAMME
About the Programme
The newly funded Wellcome Trust ’Advanced Therapies for Regenerative Medicine’ programme will train a new generation of researchers in advanced therapies that underpin regenerative medicine. This programme builds on the success of our previous PhD programme ‘Cell Therapies and Regenerative Medicine’.
Our programme is designed for students, who wish to carry out high quality lab-based fundamental research and find solutions to challenging medical problems.
The programme provides an interdisciplinary training. PhD supervisors have been selected across departments from King’s campuses, for their expertise in core areas of relevance to regenerative medicine, including cell transplantation, gene therapy and endogenous tissue repair.
Supervisors also have expertise in stem cell and developmental biology and knowledge of bioengineering, disease modelling, drug screens and cell tracking in patients.
#ReimagineResearch
Students will appreciate the creative possibilities of working at the interface between different fields in a positive research culture.
Leadership & Supervisors
Collectively, the supervisors provide knowledge in diseases of unmet clinical need, in innate and adaptive immunity, in organ transplantation and clinical trials of cell and gene therapies.
Supervisors also have scientific expertise in relevant models of endogenous tissue repair, and knowledge of bioengineering, disease modelling, drug screens and cell tracking in patients.
Researchers from the Centre for Gene Therapy & Regenerative Medicine answer questions about the future of stem cell research from King’s College London.
Students of this programme will have access to King’s world class resources:
This programme will equip students to further translate science into regenerative medicine so that they graduate with excellent career prospects.
Filmed at the Centre for Gene Therapy & Regenerative Medicine (CGTRM) before lockdown, Maria Andrews documents a snippet of cell counting methods used by PhD student Ana Maria Cujba (Cohort 2016) to prepare cultured cells to be differentiated into pancreatic organoids.
This film was made as part of the Illuminations collaboration between artists from Chisenhale Studios and scientists from the CGTRM at King’s College London (KCL) and Imperial College London.
Cohort 2023
Applications are now CLOSED for Cohort 2023.
A Song of Fire and Ice by Peter Harley (Cohort 2017)
Explanation: We directed stem cells to become motor neurons (blue=Tubb3) and astrocytes (orange=GFAP). Normally astrocytes provide a comfortable environment for the neurons to live, but in a number of diseases, such as motor neuron disease, they can create a toxic environment that kills the neurons.
Congratulations to King's Wellcome PhD Programme students
Congratulations to our students who have successfully published review articles with Professor Fiona Watt and/or Professor Francesca Spagnoli. Find out more about their work below.
