ACED Opportunities and Training

Find out about the latest ACED education opportunities, job vacancies and access recorded content from past early detection events.

ACED PhD Studentships
Early Detection Training Programme
Lectures and Masterclasses in Early Detection

听Funded PhD studentships

ACED is committed to听training the next generation of early detection scientists and provides a world-class, supportive and flexible training environment. The ACED PhD programme provides unique support by offering a multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional approach to training.

Applications for the ACED 4-year PhD Studentship programme are now closed.

Future opportunities will be advertised here

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ACED offers the opportunity to undertake a 4-year PhD studentship, with the Early Detection Training Programme providing a taught course in different disciplines relevant to early detection. To complement their training, students are strongly encouraged to undertake up to two rotations in different groups, either in their own host institution, or where relevant and funding allows at a different ACED Centre.

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UCL ACED PhD Student, Lucie Gourmet, shares her account of the different research groups she worked in at UCL, Cambridge and Stanford during the first year of her ACED PhD Studentship.

Lucie has also written some guidance and advice based on her experience.听

Read Lucie's guide to ACED PhD Studentship rotations

ACED Early Detection Training Programme 2022/23

ACED has developed a dedicated training programme to provide PhD students and early career researchers with a solid foundation to the early detection field. The course covers a broad spectrum of knowledge across various disciplines divided into 6 modules: Foundation to cancer, Cancer metrics, Cancer detection tools, Screening, Early diagnosis and Cancer in the wider context.

Download the full Early Detection Training syllabus

The course provides an interactive training experience delivered online in thirty approximately weekly 1-hour sessions. Attendance is open to all PhD students and early career researchers at ACED Member Centres.

2023/2024 ACED Early Detection Training Programme will be starting October 2023听please contact Dan Kelberman, UCL ACED Programme Manager.
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Videos: Lectures and Masterclasses

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Prof Sam Hanash

Director McCombs Institute for the Early Detection and Treatment of Cancer, Department of Clinical Cancer Prevention, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

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Dr听Jamie Blundell

UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, CRUK Cambridge Centre Early Detection Programme, University of Cambridge.

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Dr听Ruth Etzioni

Interim Codirector; Distinguished Scientist, CEDAR, OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, School of Medicine

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Dr听Jamie Blundell

UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, CRUK Cambridge Centre Early Detection Programme, University of Cambridge.

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Prof Nora Pashayan

Professor in Applied Cancer Research, UCL. NIHR CLAHRC North Thames Academy Director

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Dr Christian von Wagner

Reader in Behavioural Science and Health, UCL.

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Dr Emma Woodward

Consultant Clinical Geneticist and Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester

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