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biology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 622 biology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Understanding extinction risk in the Anthropocene

We live in a humanized world in which even the most remote areas have been affected by the actions of our species. Human impacts have caused a widespread loss of biodiversity, to the point that we have likely entered the sixth mass extinction event on Earth, the first primarily caused by humans. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Gonzalez-Suarez
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Plant-insect interactions in a changing world

Project Overview: . Insects associated with plants comprise one of the most diverse groups of species on earth. Their impact on the ecology and evolution of their host plants is widely recognised, as is their contribution to multiple important ecosystem services. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Gripenberg
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Multilevel selection on transposition rates in cancer

Cancer is an evolutionary process. Cells in a tumour vary due to mutation, and so over many generations they adapt in response to both intrinsic selective pressures (such as anoxia) and extrinsic selective pressures (such as chemotherapy). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr L J Johnson
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Bioinformatics studies of protein structures, functions and their interactions

The computational study of protein structures, functions and their interactions is fundamental to our understanding of disease. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof L J McGuffin
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Consequences of CD20 ligation in diffuse large B cell lymphoma

The addition of the monospecific chimeric CD20 antibody rituximab to chemotherapy transformed outcomes for patients with DLBCL without additional significant toxicities (1). Read more
 Supervisors: Dr H Walter, Dr Y Markaki, Prof M J S Dyer
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Leveraging sequencing technologies to advance identification of bacterial pathogens

This four-year PhD project aims to advance sequencing-based bioinformatics methods for identification and characterisation of bacterial pathogens in diverse clinical and surveillance samples. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr Y Wan, Prof N Williams, Prof S Paterson
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Mechanisms of drug-induced mutations in cancer

We invite applications for a PhD study “Mechanisms of drug-induced mutations in cancer“. Treatment of cancer with drugs that cause DNA damage often leads to development of the drug tolerance. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof M Sherman
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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