Phd in Chemistry - Chemistry Biology Interface

University of St Andrews

PhD (Doctorate): a research-based degree, normally of three to four years duration. You will engage in a full-time research project and write a thesis of no more than 80,000 words and undergo an oral examination. The School of Chemistry at St Andrews has a thriving PhD community with around 150 PhD students studying here at any one time. Each student’s PhD experience – from their project to their funding. The School values its PhD community and contributes a major component of its own income to funding PhD positions in Chemistry. This funding is assigned to academics directly, and so it is always worth making an application. Understanding the chemistry of life and the processes of life is central to this theme and plays an important role in drug design and development, as well as sustainable catalysis. Research in this area spans bioinformatics, biophysical characterisation of enzymes, designing and synthesising tools for the interception and/or imaging of pathways, enzyme, metabolic pathway engineering and synthetic biology. Research across EaStCHEM in this area is highly multidisciplinary and applied impacting upon medicine, and the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries.

Chemistry