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MSLMSLCenter for Health Innovation
& Biotechnology
Training

Building the researchers this field depends on

Fellowships, internships, workshops and mentorship designed to give early-career scientists a genuine route into biomedical research.

Research capacity is people. Instrumentation can be purchased and laboratories can be built, but neither produces anything without researchers trained to use them well — and training is the part most often left to chance.

The Center treats capacity building as a core function rather than an outreach activity. Our programmes run from short technical workshops through to funded fellowships, and they share one design principle: participants do real work on real questions, supervised, rather than observing from the side of the bench.

Our approach

How our training is designed

Hands-on from the start

Participants work at the bench under supervision. Technique is learned by doing it, correcting it, and doing it again.

Methods and ethics together

Research ethics, consent, data integrity and regulatory requirements are taught as part of method, not as a separate compliance module.

Supervised, not supervised-in-name

Every placement has a named supervisor with defined responsibility for the trainee's development.

A route onward

Programmes are structured so that completing one opens a realistic next step, rather than ending in a certificate.

Apply to a programme

Tell us where you are in your training and what you want to work on, and we will point you to the right programme.