UK: PhD Opportunity to Study ME/CFS [November 2017]

[Andy]

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is currently advertising PhD studentships funded by the MRC London Intercollegiate Doctoral Training Partnership.

Please see below for a project on CFS/ME research which comes under the theme of Quantitative skills for Large Datasets. Please circulate to any colleagues who may be interested. For more information about this project please contact Eliana Lacerda (eliana.lacerda@lshtm.ac.uk).

Eliana Lacerda & Kevin Wing & Luis Nacul

Studying the epidemiology and genetics of chronic fatigue syndrome using electronic health records (pdf)

Please see the website below for information about what the studentship offers and eligibility criteria (along with a list of all advertised PhDs): http://mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk/.

http://www.metrust.org.uk/2017/11/30/phd-opportunity-to-study-me-cfs/

ETA: ME Trust Facebook post below

https://www.facebook.com/themetrustuk/posts/1229451973823721

 

[Barry]

Encouraging. Pity they couldn't stick with ME/CFS throughout, but encouraging.