NTU and top Swedish medical university Karolinska Institute have launched a joint PhD programme in the field of biomedical science. The joint PhD programme is the third that NTU has established over the last five months. NTU has similar agreements with the Imperial College, London, and Technische Universitat Munchen in Germany. Provost Prof Bertil Andersson said that establishing strategic links with the institutions - world renowned in engineering, medicine and the biological sciences - was is in line with the university's bid to strengthen its research base in the biomedical and health sciences. The latest agreement with Karolinska Institutet will see up to four places offered to students from both universities at the start of each academic year, for the next five years.