Doctoral Programme Life Sciences at University of Würzburg

Structured, interdisciplinary doctoral training programme of the Graduate School of Life Sciences at the University of Würzburg, founded in 2006 and supporting more than 600 doctoral researchers (PhD/Dr. rer. nat.) alongside more than 200 medical doctoral researchers. Doctoral researchers work in one of more than 250 research groups with a thesis committee of at least three principal investigators.

Faculty: Graduate School of Life Sciences (Faculties of Biology, Medicine, Chemistry and Pharmacy, Physics, Human Sciences)  |  Department: Graduate School of Life Sciences (GSLS)  |  Duration: 3-4 years (as stated for the natural-science PhD route)  |  Intake: Admission to the Graduate School possible at any time of year; university enrolment only in March/April or September/October  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Würzburg, Bayern, Germany

What you will study

Research towards a doctorate plus a mandatory structured study programme with transferable-skills training; research is organised in sections (Biomedicine, Clinical Sciences, Infection and Immunity, Integrative Biology, Neuroscience). A first-author paper in an international peer-reviewed journal is expected.

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