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biomedical research PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 365 biomedical research PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Engineering of Smart and Sustainable Biomaterials for Regenerative Orthopaedics

This PhD project explores the development of next-generation biomaterials for orthopaedic regeneration, focusing on engineering sustainable ceramic-based implants that address both clinical needs and environmental pressures. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Gnanasagaran
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Point-of-care diagnostic devices for chronic disease management

Point-of-care (POC) diagnostic devices play a vital role in managing chronic diseases by enabling rapid, on-site testing and continuous monitoring. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof D Lamprou
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Personalised 3D-Printed Insoles with Advanced Offloading Design and Integrated Sensors

1. Project Overview. Diabetic foot complications often arise from elevated plantar pressure and localised tissue stress. Current offloading insoles can provide some benefit, but they are typically generic and unable to address individual needs. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr N Mahmoodi
 Year round applications  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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Ecology and infection in the respiratory tract

Project Details. The lower respiratory tract has a microbiome. It is sparser than the gut microbiome and much less well characterised, but similarly varies in health and disease, has stable composition and has direct interactions with the immune system. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr MJ Cox
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Molecular Mechanisms of Receptors in Inflammation and Pain

Are you interested in understanding how the cardiovascular and nervous systems work? Join our research team to study the molecular mechanisms that regulate receptors and their signaling pathways. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr G Cottrell, Prof D Widera, Dr S Amadesi
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Fully funded PhD in Computational Biology

The Computational Biology Department at MBZUAI sits at the cutting edge of biology, medicine, and AI. Our faculty lead efforts to model complex biological systems and extract insights from large-scale molecular data. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  International PhD Programme
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Funded project GW4 BioMed3 MRC DTP - Artificial intelligence to identify fungal susceptibility in the clinical diagnostic laboratory

Fungal infections have become a major and growing global health crisis, causing an estimated 3.8 million deaths each year—surpassing the toll of diseases like tuberculosis and malaria. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof A Dowsey
 21 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Role of nutrition, and gut function in human health and diseases (sarcopenia, frailty, diabetes and cardiovascular diseas); using metabolomics and genomics

Could what we eat reshape the crosstalk between our gut, muscles and heart as we age? This exciting PhD harnesses cutting-edge metabolomics to decode the nutrition-gut-muscle-heart axis, uncovering biomarkers of healthy ageing and novel targets to prevent age-related cardiovasucal and cardiometabolic disease. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Isanejad, Dr H Muhamad Ali, Dr U Alam, Dr VPV Pekovic-Vaughan
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Systems Neuroscience: Vision-Guided Navigation in Drosophila

  Research Group: Neural Intelligence Systems Lab
Project. Decoding Vision-Guided Navigation in Drosophila (in Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology). Read more
 Supervisor: Prof A Kim
 29 September 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Building new nano-biosensors for healthcare: Linking biology to the world of carbon nanotechnology through synthetic biology

  Research Group: Molecular Biosciences
Proteins are nature’s very own molecular machines carrying out functions ranging from catalysis to molecular recognition to energy conversion. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof D Jones, Prof M Palma, Dr WK Kelton
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Investigating cellular mechanisms of tissue homeostatis and fibrosis using omics approaches

Understanding how cells maintain tissue health or trigger irreversible decline is a frontier challenge in biomedical science. Using lung fibrosis as a primary disease model, this project investigates the core molecular networks controlling cellular fate, tissue regeneration, and scarring. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr K N Natarajan, Dr M Jones
 18 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Funded project GW4 BioMed3 MRC DTP - Investigating mechanisms of cell competition in breast cancer susceptibility and early tumour initiation

IMPORTANCE. Interactions between cancer cells and their non-cancerous counterparts play pivotal roles in modulating tumour growth. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr B Lloyd-Lewis, Dr E Piddini, Dr R Richmond
 21 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Disease Mechanisms: From Phenotypic Discovery to New Therapeutic Targets

Projects in this direction will investigate molecular mechanisms that drive major human diseases and identify new therapeutic targets. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof X Lei
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Advancing therapeutic options in surgical site infections and wound care: Engineering multi-drug eluting medical devices

Background. Despite improvements in aseptic procedures and antimicrobial prophylaxis, surgical site infections (SSIs) continue to be a major cause of postoperative morbidity and mortality globally. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr GM Khalid
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only