Student placements

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Gain valuable experience and training while developing your clinical research experience in a supportive world-class clinical research environment. 

Applications for 2023/2024 placements have now closed.

Applications for 2024/2025 placements will open in October 2023.

Find the area that most interests you

Applicants are able to choose to apply to the following business areas:

Assist with gathering, analysing, and presenting project information to support the effective review and management of Cancer Research UK's CDD portfolio of projects. Support resource forecasting across CDD and developing data visualisation methods and tools for CDD portfolio information. 

Provide administrative support to the Medical Writing (MW) and Pharmacovigilance (PV) teams in accordance with Cancer Research UK Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and policies, International Conference on Harmonisation (ICH) and Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines and requirements in order to facilitate the successful execution of MW and PV clinical trials related activities.

Aid in the development of new cancer therapies by supporting the exploratory, pre-clinical, set-up, monitoring and archiving aspects of clinical trials in accordance with Cancer Research UK Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and policies, ICH GCP guidelines, UK legislations and other regulatory requirements.