Academics · SSBCO
The SSBCO industry tie-up
The School of Systems Biology & Computational Oncology at Sikkim Medical Science University is the degree-granting home. KPCIRC is the industry partner in a formal industry–academia partnership.
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How the partnership works
What SMSU and SSBCO bring
- Degree-granting authority
- Academic governance and accreditation-grade rigour
- The doctoral and postgraduate framework
- Faculty appointments and examination
What KPCIRC brings
- Real clinical cases and molecularly characterised cohorts
- Faculty drawn from the clinic and the twelve research centres
- Fellowships, observerships and doctoral supervision
- The computational infrastructure projects run on
What the partnership produces
Doctoral research
SSBCO doctoral projects supervised inside the research centres, using real cases, samples and outcomes.
The centres →The workforce
An academic engine that supplies the institution's own workforce and reduces key-person dependence.
Joint programmes
Programmes designed with academic rigour and delivered against live clinical and computational work.
Research collaboration
Joint research spanning the fifteen themes, with a written authorship and IP policy.
The themes →Programme names, award structures, intake dates and accreditation details are published by SMSU and ISAGS and will be linked here once confirmed.