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Cell & Molecular Biophysics, Randall Division of
|MPhil/PhD, MD(Res)
|Part Time, Full Time
RESEARCH PROFILE
- 2008 RAE Divisional Results: 65 per cent of research activity in the Division was rated as world leading or internationally excellent in terms of originality, significance and rigour.
- Research income: £5m per year.
- Current number of academic staff: 30 principal investigators, 24 PhD supervisors.
- Current number of graduate research students: 32.
- Current number of post-doctoral research assistants: 69.
- PhD Success Rate: Over the last seven years the Division has had a 100 per cent success rate for students completing within four years.
- Recent publications include:
- The molecular basis of the steep force-calcium relation in heart muscle.
- The potential of optical proteomic technologies to individualise prognosis and guide rational treatment for cancer patients
- Adherens junctions connect stress fibers between adjacent endothelial cells
- PAK4: a pluripotent kinase that regulates prostate cancer cell adhesion
- Structural insight into M-band assembly and mechanics from the titin-obscurin-like-1 complex.
- Current research projects: Details of current research interests can be found on The Randall Division of Cell & Molecular Biophysics website. To discuss a possible project contact group leaders.
- Partner organisations:
- National Institute for Medical Research
- Imperial College London
- Zeiss
- Cardiovascular Research Division
- BHF Centre of Research Excellence
- Cancer Studies Division
- Dimbleby Cancer Care
- Division of Asthma, Allergy and Lung Biology
- MRC/Asthma UK Centre for Allergic Mechanisms in Asthma
- MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology
- Department of Physics
- Centre for Biophotonics
- Department of Mathematics
Systems Biomedicine Graduate Programme - NIHR Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre.
KEY FACTS
Head of group/division
Professor Malcolm Irving FRS
Awarding institution
King's College London
Duration
Expected to be three to four years full-time, four to six years part-time.
Location
Guy's Campus; some projects may take place on non-campus locations.
Student destinations
Most of our PhD graduates continue careers in science as post-docs in academic and industrial laboratories.
Year of entry 2013
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