Finally sorted my Ph.D!

I'll be working on the treatment of basal cell carcinomas (skin cancer), with hyperbaric oxygen therapy, photodynamic therapy, iron chelators and NO donators.

I'm so excited to be moving on after a year of being stalled!

Congrats.

My sister started a PhD in forensic science but found the same situation (no funding for the required equipment).

You know people like you make me happier that I pay my taxes.
 
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After having been messed around last year thanks to administrative ****-ups and general poor form on the part of my 'supervisor' resulting in me being hired to do a Ph.D with no funding, I gave up on him and his department and started searching for another.
Was there no industrial partner or had the agreement with the industrial partner simply not been agreed yet. If the latter, this is true for the vast majority of studentships.
 
Was there no industrial partner or had the agreement with the industrial partner simply not been agreed yet. If the latter, this is true for the vast majority of studentships.

The partner was the British Heart Foundation and as far as I'm aware they weren't at fault.

My supervisor had told me when I accepted the position that the funding was secured and that I would be sent the info when he received it in full. I then got a call down the line telling me that the funding had been pulled.

Straight away I knew that it's more than likely he never secured the funding in the first place and just assumed he'd get it which is pretty arrogant and put me in a pretty bad position. I went from having 3 years of my life planned out to nothing in the length of a phone call :/

@Amp34, yes the diving centre is in Plymouth :) There was some mention of me going to Truro to have a look at their (far more impressive) photodynamic therapy equipment but I'm hoping that will be infrequent as it's quite a distance to go (although it's time that can be spent working on the train if need be).
 
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