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Social Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry
|MPhil/PhD
|Part Time, Full Time
RESEARCH PROFILE
- Established: 1995 by Professor Michael Rutter and Professor Robert Plomin
- Current number of students: 27 PhD students
- Current number of staff: More than 100 staff members, of which 28 academic faculty staff
- Current research projects include: Twins Early Development Study (TEDS) Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Cognitive-experimental and Genetic study of ADHD and Control Sibling Pairs (CEG) Genome-based Therapeutic Drugs for Depression (GENDEP).
- Facilities: The Centre moved into its new £25m building in 2003, which includes state-of-the-art molecular genetic laboratories
- Funding: To date, research programs have attracted more than $20 million in funding.
KEY FACTS
Head of group/division
Dr Sara Jaffee
Duration
For traditional PhD, expected to be three years FT, five-six years PT; for MSc and PhD, expected to be one and three years. Email iop.educationsupport@kcl.ac.uk for further information.
Location
King's Denmark Hill Campus
Student destinations
Students have become senior lecturers at the Institute or at other institutions; continued
research; gained MRC fellowships; become consultant psychiatrists; become professors.
Year of entry 2012
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