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. Applications submitted after 31 July 2026 may still be considered for the April 2027 intake, depending on the status of the admissions process and at the discretion of the admissions team.
About VSD
The world’s first 3-year venture creation focused PhD program run by Deep Science Venture College at Woolf University: a globally recognised, decentralised institution widening access to higher education. 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 (Germany),



and embedded in a integral R&D; coalition of universities and national labs, including National Physical Laboratory, the James Hutton Institute, Imperial College, Max Planck, the University of Edinburgh, University College London, Goldsmiths, University of London, Cornell University, the Mayo Clinic, and many others.
Program outline:
The aim of year 1 is for candidates to familiarise themselves with a given industry and mapping the landscape to identify areas of opportunity for high-impact venture creation. In a process called Scoping, candidates will identify the optimal solution to a given problem and - alongside accredited courses such as experimental design - perform lab work to develop their hypotheses, and contact partner research groups for further experimentation.
Year 2 is focused on invention and further developing the initial hypotheses, working within leading research groups to prove the technology against the original hypothesis and

📌 Venture Science Doctorate: venture-creation PhD program (Canarias)
🏢 Deep Science Ventures
📍 Canarias