Medical Research Foundation
National PhD Training Programme in
Antimicrobial Resistance Research
The Medical Research Foundation has invested £4m to create the only national PhD training programme that will train new researchers to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR), one of the greatest emerging threats to human health.
The strategic objectives of the Programme are to develop a strong and active network of new investigators for the UK with multidisciplinary skills who will be able to develop, undertake and, potentially, lead AMR research which crosses the traditional boundaries between research disciplines and sectors.
Two cohorts of students have taken up their interdisciplinary PhD studentships within UKRI-funded AMR research consortia in 14 universities and institutions across the UK.
The Programme also offers funded attendance at annual conferences for a wider cohort of ~120 PhD students studying AMR across the UK and has run residential training courses too. The Programme’s peer-to-peer learning is designed to help the next generation of AMR researchers to understand all the disciplines needed to tackle AMR and to work together in the future. Find out more about our interdisciplinary training in the video above.
Research themes
Our students are undertaking multidisciplinary PhD projects at Bristol, Dundee, Edinburgh, Exeter, Exeter Penryn Campus, Imperial College London, Leeds, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, Sheffield, University College London and Warwick. Their projects broadly fit within four research themes. Please follow the link below to find out more.
Join the National Training Programme's wider training cohort
In addition to our fully-funded PhD students, we train a wider cohort of PhD students studying AMR across the UK (~120 in total). All students in our wider cohort attend the Programme’s annual conference. Find out more via the link below.