Understanding cancer in individuals with cystic fibrosis

This fully funded PhD scholarship provides an exciting opportunity to pursue postgraduate research in cancer epidemiology and data science. The research will focus on improving understanding of the relationship between cystic fibrosis and cancer. The PhD candidate will work with a multidisciplinary team of clinicians, epidemiologists and charity partners to examine the relationship between cystic fibrosis and cancer, identify subgroups at elevated risk of developing cancer and/or poor outcomes from cancer, and inform screening and surveillance of this population. The candidate will make use of data which combines information from the Cystic Fibrosis Register and national cancer registration data in order to calculate the incidence of different types of cancer in individuals with cystic fibrosis and examine diagnostic pathways and outcomes. The scholarship is funded by Boehringer Ingleheim and hosted by the School of Medicine at the University of Leeds. The successful candidate will benefit from links with the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics, which provides a secure environment for researchers to store, process and analyse sensitive and confidential data.