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EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Accelerated Medicines Design & Development

A warm welcome.

As a postgraduate student of the CDT In Accelerated Medicines Design and Development at Nottingham you will be joining academic and student community in our research, learning and skills development efforts. School of Pharmacy at Nottingham is embedded within the University of Nottingham research ecosystem and we will endeavour to provide you with knowledge and skills, and to contribute to your postgraduate studies whether this is because you want to learn, you want to be a leading research scientist, or you want to take your career to the next step.

School of Pharmacy and University of Nottingham offer a wide range of support services and facilities that are there to help you achieve your own personal ambitions, while within the CDT you will have additional opportunities in training, research, skills development, networking and gaining an industrial perspective of current and future developments in healthcare technologies and pharmaceutical industry.

We are looking forward to your enthusiasm, commitment and dedication. We invite you to work in partnership with us, so that your efforts bring desired outcomes.

Research

Expertise at NottinghamCDT molecules

The PhD projects at the CDT in Accelerated Medicine Design and Development will, as have in the previous CDTs, reflect the research at the Schools of Pharmacy at Nottingham and the wider University.

The research at the School of Pharmacy spans from medicinal and polymer chemistry, advanced materials, healthcare technologies, molecular therapeutics, and medicines design to tissue therapies. 

The research at the School is multidisciplinary and occurs in the collaborations with academic researchers from other University Schools and Faculties, particularly School of Computer Science, School of Life Sciences, Scholl of Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine, and Faculty of Engineering.  

This CDT focuses on accelerated medicines design, therefore the computational approaches will form part in many of the PhD project to prepare our graduates for future careers in academia and industry. These will be supported by academic with computational research expertise within the School and wider University.

Research facilities at Nottingham 

Our research projects and PhD students benefit from access to a wide range of state-of-the-art facilities, both within the School of Pharmacy and across the University of Nottingham. Explore the facilities available in the following areas:

School of Pharmacy Research Facilities

View school facilities 

Synthesis and Product Analysis

Nottingham Analytical Sciences

Computing

Nanoscience and Material Characterisation

Nanoscale and Microscale Research Centre (nmRC)

Advanced Microscopy

School of Life Sciences Imaging (SLIM)

Advanced Cell Analysis and Imaging

 PhD projects at NottinghamCDT infographic

The CDT PhD projects at Nottingham are supervised by a team of academics with expertise relevant to the project aims. These academics are working at different schools and faculties at the University. The supervisory team could also include industrial researchers from the CDT partnering companies. The supervisory team is assembled during the PhD project generation event.

PhD project generation occurs by a process, which the EPSRC calls a 'Sandpit'. This process is designed to allow people the opportunity to meet and discuss research ideas. The goal of the process on the CDT is for academics, industry research and our postgraduates to come together and to generate new ideas leading to research projects. The aim of the event is to create an excess of PhD projects to allow more choice for our postgraduate students.

The PhD projects at Nottingham will build on our expertise and could include addressing challenges such as development medicines for therapies in cancer or other diseases, biodistribution and mechanisms of action of drugs, design and characterisation of new materials for healthcare, development of medicines from new modalities such as mRNA or peptides, development of new analytical approaches for medicines characterisation, in silico studies of molecules and materials, and development of predictive models for medicines development.  These research themes evolve to respond to advances in academic and industrial research in the field.

Explore examples of student projects from our previously funded CDTs:


We are keen to recruit diverse student cohorts. We would like to encourage candidates from underrepresented groups – in particularly candidates form Black and other minoritised backgrounds – to apply to join our CDT. To support these students, we have committed to providing tailored mentorship and present a safe space for students to grow and shape their careers.

Learn more about the CDT, including FAQs and application details, on the AMDD CDT website.

Please contact pa-amdd-cdt@nottingham.ac.uk for any further queries.