Posted on: Tue 22-08-2023

The Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine invites applications from Africans citizens for its full-time PhD studentship in the below projects: 

Project 1: Optimising micronutrient status in early infancy: mode and timing of micronutrient interventions (Primary Supervisor, Professor Sophie Moore). 

Eligibility requirements 

Essential 

• MSc in Nutrition, biochemistry, or another related programme 
• Expertise in clinical analytical science techniques, or other relevant laboratory techniques 
• Excellent written and oral communication skills 

Desirable 

• Experience with nutritional biomarker analysis 
• Experience with data analysis and analysis packages (e.g. STATA) 
• Background in nutrition research 

Please email Sophie Moore ([email protected] ) for further details. Project main supervisor: Professor Sophie Moore 

Project 2: Sexually transmitted infections and antimicrobial resistance patterns in The Gambia -molecular diagnostics and genotypic and phenotypic surveillance. 

Eligibility requirements 

Essential 

• MSc in molecular biology, molecular microbiology, or closely related discipline. 
• Expertise and experience in laboratory molecular biology techniques. 
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Interest in the laboratory diagnosis of sexually transmitted infections 
• Willingness to work with diverse groups of people including closely with field researchers, clinicians and epidemiologists leading the survey. 
• Willingness to work in rural locations. 

Desirable 

• Experience of genomic analysis including downstream bioinformatics processing using relevant software packages. 
• Experience in the laboratory diagnosis of sexually transmitted infections and in the public health implications of diagnoses and antimicrobial resistance. 

Please email Ed Clarke (Ed. [email protected]) for further details. 

Project main supervisor: Ed. Clarke. 

The studentship starts as soon as the recruitment is done, and will be full-time for four years, involving collaboration with the Medical Research Council Unit the Gambia at LSHTM and a European University. 

Full financial support will be provided. 

Further information and an application form can be obtained by an e-mail request to [email protected] 

Closing Date:

All applications should be received on or before 18th September 2023 at 16:00pm 

The Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at LSHTM is an Equal Opportunities Employer and Operates a Strict No Smoking Policy. Your data provided will be protected in accordance to the Unit’s data protection policy and will only be used for the candidate selection and University registrations.

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