Oxford, UK: Clinical Research Training Fellowships (epidemiology), British Heart Foundation (BHF) Centre of Research Excellence, Oxford University

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Clinical Research Training Fellowships

The British Heart Foundation (BHF) Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) at Oxford provides an outstanding research training environment and brings together 32 research groups in ten University Departments and Centres.

A number of Clinical Research Training Fellowships will be funded, on a competitive basis, by the BHF CRE in Oxford. Applications are invited from clinicians wishing to undertake a DPhil with a focus on cardiovascular science. Applicants must have a strong academic record (2:1 minimum) and must comply with BHF residency
requirements i.e. should normally be a national of the EEA.

Potential supervisors are listed under eight research themes:

Large-scale Randomised Evidence: reliable assessment of the treatment and prevention of cardiovascular disease
Prof Rory Collins, Prof Jane Armitage and Prof Colin Baigent

Large-scale Observational Epidemiology: reliable assessment of the main determinants of cardiovascular disease
Prof Zheng-Ming Chen, Prof Valerie Beral, Dr Sarah Parish and Prof Richard Peto

Genetics of Inherited Diseases & Genetic Epidemiology
Prof Hugh Watkins, Prof Peter Donnelly and Prof Martin Farrall

Cardiac Development and Congenital Heart Disease
Prof Shoumo Bhattacharya, Prof Kay Davies, Prof Roger Patient and Dr Shankar Srinivas

Vascular Biology, Redox Signalling & Inflammation
Prof Keith Channon, Dr David R. Greaves, Prof Anant Parekh and Prof Chris Pugh

Myocardial Biology, Cardiac Energetics & Redox Signalling
Prof Stefan Neubauer, Prof Barbara Casadei, Prof Kieran Clarke and Dr Charles Redwood

Electrophysiology, Signalling & Computational Physiology
Prof David Paterson, Prof Peter Hunter, Dr Peter Kohl, Dr Nic Smith and Prof Richard
Vaughan-Jones

Cardiovascular Pharmacology & Medicinal Chemistry
Prof Antony Galione, Prof Stephen Davies, Dr Kim Dora, Prof Chris Garland and
Prof Derek Terrar

Further information regarding research themes and the principal investigators involved, together with application details and residency requirements, is available on: http://www.cardiov.ox.ac.uk/Students Informal enquiries, can be made to Prof Hugh Watkins or Dr Ruth McCaffrey by email: hugh.watkins@cardiov.ox.ac.uk or
ruth.mccaffrey@cardiov.ox.ac.uk

Application letters, with full CV and details of two academic referees, together with the names of two principal investigators you would be interested in working with, are to be emailed to applications@cardiov.ox.ac.uk by Monday 12 January 2009. Please quote HS/08/031 on all correspondence. Interviews will be held no later than the last week of January 2009. Please note that potential candidates, who feel they have an outstanding track record, are also welcome to apply for a Clinical Research Training Fellowship at any time.

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