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bioinformatics PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 478 bioinformatics PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Who Pulls the Strings? Unravelling the Non-Coding Regulators of Cellular Dormancy in Breast Cancer

Why do some breast cancer cells lie dormant for years before suddenly reawakening to cause incurable metastatic relapse? This project investigates one of the most poorly understood aspects of cancer biology. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr Lewis Quayle, Prof P Ottewell, Prof C Toseland, Prof D Lambert
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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MRC NW-DMS DLA programme: Agentic AI to drive functional annotation and drug discovery in a priority fungal pathogen

Fungal disease kills an estimated 3.75 million people a year worldwide — six times more than malaria and three times more than tuberculosis. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof A R Jones, Dr M Bromley, Dr P Kritsiligkou
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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AI and genomics for predicting antimicrobial resistance in Mycobacteria

  Research Group: Modernising Medical Microbiology Unit
Background/research theme. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the best-known member of the Mycobacterium genus and the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), an infectious disease that remains a major global health challenge. Read more
 Supervisors: Mr PF Fowler, Prof T Walker, Dr R Turner
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Innovative surveillance of healthcare-associated pathogens and antimicrobial resistance using metagenomics of composite samples from patients and healthcare environments

  Research Group: Modernising Medical Microbiology Unit
Healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) represent major threats to patients. Effective hospital surveillance is essential for identifying emerging pathogens and AMR, detecting transmission, and informing infection prevention and control (IPC) interventions. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr N Stoesser, Dr A Kearney, Dr K Chau
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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NWD DLA programme: Rules of molecular convergence: exploring the hidden diversity of sodium pumps in predatory arthropods

How does the evolutionary history of a protein shape what it can do next?. The same mutation can make one protein resistant to a potent inhibitor yet have little effect in another. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr H Rowland, Dr P Mulhair, Prof D Rigden
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[FSE PhD President's Doctoral Scholarship] UTIs and the menopause

Why does prevalence of UTIs increase so substantially during the menopause? How do the hormonal changes associated with menopause come to affect competition… Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Thompson, Dr D Gifford, Dr RT Tank, Dr E Doman
 18 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Controlling Impulsive Behaviour

Primary Supervisor. Caroline Brennan. Co-supervisor(s). Elisabeth Busch-Nentwich, Vitaly Voloshin. Studentship Funding. Awaiting CSC Funding Decision. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof CH Brennan
 27 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Making drugs out of sunlight and “thin air” (STEPHENSONM_U27SCI)

Primary Supervisor. Dr Michael Stephenson. Could you uncover a hidden pathway to medicinally important plant molecules?. Plants are extraordinary chemists, producing a diversity of complex molecules, many with valuable medicinal properties. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr MS Stephenson
 24 February 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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(MRC NW-DMS) Undiagnosed Psoriatic Arthritis Across the Lifecourse: Early Warning Signs

There is often significant delay to diagnosis for children and adults with psoriatic arthritis. In children, arthritis often precedes psoriasis, leading to incorrect diagnoses of oligoarticular or polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Shoop-Worrall, Dr J Bowes, Dr James Bluett, Dr M Yates
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Evaluating Infectious Disease Interventions Using Electronic Health Records and Causal Inference Including Target Trial Emulation

  Research Group: Modernising Medical Microbiology Unit
Background. Increasingly available large-scale electronic health record data have the potential to answer a number of questions about infection management that are challenging to address using randomised controlled trials (RCTs). Read more
 Supervisors: Prof S Walker, Dr D Eyre, Dr C Turner
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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(MRC NW-DMS) Uncovering plasmid-driven metabolic vulnerabilities to tackle multidrug resistant pathogens

Antibiotic resistance is a global health concern. Multidrug resistance (MDR) in bacterial pathogens is mediated by the gain of plasmids carry genes encoding resistance to clinically relevant antibiotics. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Hall, Dr J Hall, Prof M Brockhurst
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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ACCE+ DLA programme: Britain’s soil microbiome atlas: disentangling management and climate drivers of below-ground biodiversity

Healthy soils depend on billions of microbes and tiny animals that recycle nutrients, store carbon and support crop growth. Yet we still cannot say how Britain's soil communities are changing, or which farming practices help them cope with a warmer, drier climate. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr F Del Carratore, Prof A Darby, Dr R Neilson
 7 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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ACCE+ DLA programme: Can evolutionary history predict which aquatic insects are most vulnerable to climate warming?

Freshwater environments are warming, but not all species are responding in the same way. Some aquatic insects tolerate temperatures far above those they normally experience, while others typically found in cooler streams may be particularly vulnerable. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr H Rowland, Dr P Mulhair, Dr S Wigby, Dr C MacAdam
 7 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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The Missing Receptors: How the Leishmania Kinome Senses Environmental Cues

Leishmania parasites cause a collection of devastating neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affecting millions of people worldwide, transmitted via a sand fly vector. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr N Baker, Dr J Faria, Prof M Wright
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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ACCE+ DLA programme: Enhancing detections of invertebrates to improve biosecurity in the South Atlantic

Interested in invertebrates, invasive species and islands in the South Atlantic? This PhD project gives you all three. The cheapest and most efficient way to prevent invasions by terrestrial invertebrates, is to prevent introduction and establishment of the species in the wider environment. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof W Dawson, Dr P Brickle, Prof H Roy, Prof G Hurst
 7 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)