agents PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Understanding gene regulation by HDAC1 complexes in development and cancer

University of Leicester Molecular and Cell Biology

Packaging DNA into nucleosomes helps protect the long fragile genomes of eukaryotic species. However, in doing so it becomes an ever-present physical barrier to the machinery required for its replication, repair and transcription. Read more

Supervisor: Prof S Cowley

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

More Details

PhD in Chemistry: Medicinal Chemistry of Nucleotide Analogues

Cardiff University Cardiff School of Chemistry

Nucleoside analogues (NAs) are an important class of antiviral and anticancer agents commonly used in the therapy of many different viral infections and cancer conditions. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Serpi

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

More Details

Sustainable recycling of end-of-life electric vehicle batteries

University of Adelaide School of Chemical Engineering

Project: The age of the electric car is all but upon us. Billions of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are reaching their lifetime along with the widespread application of electric vehicles. Read more

Supervisors: Dr JM Mao, Prof ZG Guo

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

More Details

Designed Synthesis of Novel Zeolite Catalysts

University of St Andrews School of Chemistry

Nanoporous zeolites play a key role as catalysts in the chemical industry, in reactions as diverse as environmental catalysis and biorefining, and in separation of low molecular weight gases and hydrocarbon vapours. Read more

Supervisor: Prof P A Wright

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

More Details

Untying the knot: Remodelling of G4 structures by the NER machinery- implications in human DNA repair and regulatory pathways

University of St Andrews School of Physics and Astronomy

Open PhD position on Genome Stability and Biochemistry. Joint PhD scholarship - St Andrews and Bonn-Biology. Untying the knot. Remodelling of G4 structures by the NER machinery- implications in human DNA repair and regulatory pathways. Read more

Supervisors: Prof C Penedo, Prof K Paeschke

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

More Details

PhD Studentship in Artificial Cell Engineering and Bioinspired Technologies

Imperial College London Department of Chemical Engineering

PhD Studentships in Artificial Cell Engineering and Bioinspired Technologies. The Elani Group in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London welcomes applications for a PhD studentship to conduct work in the area of Artificial Cell Engineering and Bioinspired Technologies. Read more

Supervisor: Dr Y Elani

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

More Details

Viral-surface interactions studied by vibrational sum-frequency spectroscopy

The University of Manchester Department of Materials

The recent COVID-19 pandemic, and in particular fomite transmission of the virus, led to a lot of interest in how viral particles attached to surfaces, their survival times on different materials and how they transferred to hosts. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Thomas, Dr R Lindsay

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

More Details

Development and characterisation of multifunctional surfaces for durable infection prevention treatments on dental prosthetic device

University of Portsmouth School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences

Applications are invited for a self-funded, 3 year full-time or 6 year part-time PhD project. The PhD will be based in the School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences and will be supervised by Dr Marta Roldo, Professor Gordon Blunn and Dr Mahdi Mutahar. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Roldo, Prof G Blunn, Dr M Mutahar

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

More Details

Metals and host-pathogen interactions: the role of metal handling systems in the human gastrointestinal pathogen Campylobacter jejuni

The University of Manchester Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

Campylobacter jejuni is a globally important food-borne pathogen causing an estimated 400-500 million cases of acute human gastroenteritis each year. Read more

Supervisors: Dr J Cavet, Dr D Linton

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

More Details

Shape dependent catalytic active matter and applications

University of Strathclyde Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry

Colloids come in a wide variety of architectural designs and shapes and are traditionally employed in a wide range of applications from paints, stabilizers in emulsions and dispersions, structure directing agents to sensor components. Read more

Supervisor: Dr JS Simmchen

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

More Details

PhD in Chemistry: Developing innovative organofluorine chemistry

Cardiff University Cardiff School of Chemistry

PhD in Chemistry - Developing innovative organofluorine chemistry. Dr Matthew Tredwell is looking for a PhD student to develop innovative organofluorine chemistry. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Tredwell

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

More Details

3D & 4D PRINTING IN CANCER MANAGEMENT

Queen’s University Belfast School of Pharmacy

According to WHO, cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide, with nearly 1 in 6 deaths been due to cancer. The principal modes of cancer management are surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and pharmaceutical agents. Read more

Supervisor: Prof D Lamprou

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

More Details

Exploring Myxobacteria as live antibiotics against pathogenic bacteria

Cardiff Metropolitan University Cardiff School of Sport and Health Sciences

Multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacteria have been identified as a global threat to humanity, limiting therapeutic options. The search for new antibiotics lags far behind the occurrence of MDR bacteria with no new antibiotics brought to the clinic for over 15 years. Read more

Supervisors: Dr P Livingstone, Dr S Maddocks

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

More Details

Natural toxins and their synthetic analogues as tools to study ion channels and as potential drugs and pesticides

University of Nottingham School of Life Sciences

The project will use a combination of electrophysiological techniques such as voltage-clamp and patch-clamp with molecular biology and protein expression to understand how natural toxins and their synthetic analogues act on ion channels in the nervous system. Read more

Supervisor: Dr I R Mellor

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

More Details