Postgraduate Study
Welcome and thank you for your interest in our Department for your postgraduate study.
The Department normally accepts only those post-graduate students who intend to study for the degrees of Ph.D. or M.D. by research. These individual programmes of study may start at any time of the year, as is convenient to the student and the research adviser(s), although most students commence their study period at the beginning of October.
Students who enrol in the Department are automatically members of the Graduate School of the Faculty of Medical and Veterinary Sciences. The Graduate School offers an induction course to all new postgraduate students at the beginning of October. At this induction new students are given information about the University and the services it offers. They are told what is expected of them throughout their programme of study and what they can expect from the Department and the University by way of support.
Research training is primarily undertaken within the research group that the student joins, but access to a wide range of experimental expertise and training outside the particular research group is readily available in the Department, in other University departments or in an appropriate hospital laboratory.
The Department is well equipped to undertake basic research in many areas, particularly in the areas of immunology, molecular biology, molecular genetics, cancer, virology and aspects of medical microbiology.
Click here for information on studying for a Ph.D. by research or follow the links on the left.
A taught programme is offered in Transfusion and Transplantation Sciences leading to an MSc degree. This course is provided jointly by the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and the Bristol Institute for Transfusion Sciences.
A separate taught/research MSc in Biomedical Sciences Research is also offered by the Departments of the School of Medical Sciences.
Please note that the MSc in Transfusion and Transplantation Sciences and the MSc in Biomedical Sciences Research are the only taught postgraduate courses that we offer in this Department. All other Postgraduate study is by research.