About VSD

The Venture Science Doctorate (VSD) program, 4th cohort, starting April 2027 (full-time and primarily remote). Applications are open until 31 July 2026 (end of day, BST) and are reviewed on a rolling basis, so we encourage early submission.

The world's first 3‑year venture creation focused PhD program run by Deep Science Venture College at Woolf University. Our focus is exclusively on solving global challenges in health, climate, agriculture and computation through science as the basis for designing research projects from first principles and creating new companies founded by candidates based on this research.

The VSD is backed by a philanthropic consortium of mission‑aligned partners, including Schmidt Futures, Innovate UK and SPRIN‑D, and embedded in a global R&D coalition of universities and national labs, including National Physical Laboratory, James Hutton Institute, Imperial College, Max Planck, University of Edinburgh, UCL, Goldsmiths, C...