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biomedical engineering PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 284 biomedical engineering PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Equitable Cardiovascular Risk Prediction Through Personalised Blood Flow Modelling

About the Project. Despite major advances in cardiovascular prevention, many patients who experience serious cardiovascular events would not be identified as high risk by current clinical prediction tools. Read more
 Supervisor: Assoc Prof SB Beier
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Multimodal Learning for Human-Centered Healthcare: Motion Understanding and Medical Imaging

Project summary and focus. The project aims to develop multimodal machine learning methods for advanced healthcare data analysis. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr QM Men
 28 February 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Design and Optimization of Tapered Plastic Optical Fiber Biosensors for Neurodegenerative Disease Biomarker Detection

Research Group. Biomedical Engineering Research Group. Proposed supervisory team. Dr Adil Mustafa. Dr Mohammed Zahed Khan. Theme. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Mustafa
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Smart-Textile-Based Sensors for Epidermal Electronics

Wearable electronic devices have sparked tremendous attention in recent years, owing to their wide range of possible applications, which include artificial organs, electronic skin, and healthcare monitoring, as well as soft robotics with arbitrary surface forms. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr LM Manjakkal, Dr K Goh
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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MRC NW-DMS DLA programme: AI-assisted rapid on-site evaluation in lung cancer diagnosis: model development and two-centre external validation

Lung cancer is often diagnosed by endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) or robotic-assisted bronchoscopy (RAB), procedure that takes needle samples from tissue in the chest. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof Y Zheng, Prof M Evison, Dr T Fitzmaurice, Dr A Haragan
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Blood Rheology as a Mechanical Biomarker for Heart Failure

Can blood mechanics reveal heart disease before symptoms appear?. This PhD explores a new paradigm. treating blood not just as a carrier of biomarkers, but as a mechanical biomarker itself. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr P Pellicori, Dr M Tassieri, Dr P Maffia
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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(MRC NW-DMS) Reliable Multimodal Agentic AI for Cardiovascular Disease Diagnosis and Risk Prediction

  Research Group: Division of Informatics, Imaging and Data Sciences
Diagnosing cardiovascular disease and predicting future health risks require doctors to combine heart scans, electrocardiograms (ECGs), blood tests and medical records. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Duan, Prof S Ananiadou, Dr Chris Miller
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD in Medical AI: Multimodal Learning, Generative AI, Foundation Models, Digital Twins, VLMs and LLMs

Do you want to shape the future of healthcare with cutting-edge AI? Join us to develop the next generation of trustworthy and clinically deployable Medical AI. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Q Meng
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Swallowable Robotics for Needle-Free Delivery of Biological Medicines

The pistol shrimp snaps its claw so fast it creates a jet strong enough to stun prey. The archerfish brings down insects with a single precise shot of water. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Albed Alhnan
 31 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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(EPSRC DTP) Predicting pathological myopia through retinal imaging

This PhD project explores the intersection of advanced retinal imaging and artificial intelligence to improve prediction of ocular disease progression. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr H Radakrishnan, Dr KH Hampson, Dr A Harish
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Developing closed-loop sleep stimulation for motor learning and stroke recovery

Background. Applications are invited from both Home students and International students to join a multidisciplinary team of researchers studying the potential for closed-loop auditory stimulation during sleep to be used to improve memory consolidation following stroke. Read more
 Supervisors: Assoc Prof M Fleming, Prof A Sharott, Prof A Jackson
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Developing and Testing Brain Stimulation Patterns to Promote Half-Harmonic Entrainment for Therapeutic Benefit in Parkinson’s Disease

Background. Applications are invited from both Home students and International students to join a multidisciplinary team of researchers studying the synchronisation of brain activity to deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr B Duchet, Prof H Tan
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Medical AI: From 3D Imaging and Vision-Language Models to Surgical Robotics and Clinical Agents

  Research Group: Digital Healthcare and Medical Imaging Research Group
Applications are welcome from prospective PhD students, research master students, and visiting scholars who are interested in developing advanced artificial intelligence methods for healthcare. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr L Z Zhang, Prof JL Lima
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Development of a ‘Digital-Twin’ model for Cerebrospinal Fluid Dynamics to use in real-time monitoring of patients after severe Traumatic Brain Injury

PhD only. Summary. Severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) produces complex and rapidly evolving disturbances in cerebral blood flow, intracranial pressure and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) dynamics. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P Smielewski
 8 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Embodied Brain–Computer Interfaces for Adaptive Human–AI Interaction

Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) are commonly developed as systems that translate neural signals into isolated commands, often in highly controlled laboratory settings. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Sun, Dr Z Li, Prof A Cangelosi
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)