Alumni Destinations

Alumni from our predecessor CDT have gone on to a variety of career destinations in industry, academia, and the public sector.

Graduates with interdisciplinary skills and experience at the interface between biomedical and computational science are in huge demand, with a well identified skills shortage in the UK and globally.

Our predecessor CDT in Biomedical AI (recruiting 2019-2023) has produced a number of successful alumni. The below information is based on their post-PhD career destinations as of Autumn 2025.

Pie chart showing the following distribution of alumni destinations: Industry - 42%, Academia - 42%, Research Organisation - 11%, Healthcare - 5%.

Employers include:

  • Genomics England
  • Novartis
  • École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
  • University College London (UCL)
  • AstraZeneca
  • Imperial College London
  • University of Edinburgh
  • Drug design startups
  • NHS
…and others

 

Find out more about the alumni destinations on the Biomedical AI CDT website linked below.

Alumni | UKRI CDT in Biomedical AI | School of Informatics