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biomedical science PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 266 biomedical science PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Developing cost-effective and eco-friendly antiviral nano-agents

Humans have been fighting viruses throughout history, from smallpox, Ebola, HIV to SARS, MERS and Zika, which have costed billions of lives and made severe socio-economic impacts irreversibly. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr YG Ge
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Biomaterial coatings with lubricious, slippery coatings for improved urinary catheter performance

Intermittent urinary catheterisation is commonly used to address chronic urinary retention in patients suffering from conditions such as spinal cord injury, stroke, and multiple sclerosis. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Wylie
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Rheological studies of self-assembled peptide-based hydrogels towards injectable biocompatible hydrogels for cells and drugs in-vivo delivery

Self-funded PhD Opportunity. Rheological studies of self-assembled peptide-based hydrogels towards injectable biocompatible hydrogels for cells and drugs in-vivo delivery. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Flores, Dr A Saiani, Prof A Miller
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Fair-LLMs: Accelerating Fairness-Aware, Privacy-Preserving LLMs for Health Research

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr G Ogunniye, Dr B Bhattarai
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Personalized Digital Twins for Chronic Disease Management with Wearables and Explainable AI

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Islam, Dr S Mumtaz
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Looping DNA for Nanotechnology and Biomedicine Using Computer Simulations

DNA is often depicted as a perfect double helix, yet inside living cells it is constantly bent, twisted, and supercoiled to perform essential genetic functions. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr AN Noy
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Fibre laser based mid infrared sources and their applications

Supervisory Team. Dr. Lin Xu and Prof. Sumeet Mahajan. This project focuses on developing high-power, short-pulse fibre lasers at near-infrared wavelengths and converting them to the mid-infrared using advanced nonlinear optics. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr L Xu
 31 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Material platforms for low-loss photonic integration in the UV-VIS spectrum

Supervisory Team. Dr Thalia Dominguez Bucio and Prof Frederic Gardes. Explore advanced material platforms for UV-VIS photonic integrated circuits. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr T Dominguez Bucio
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Deubiquitinase structure determination for developing novel therapeutics

Rational drug design relies on the availability of detailed structure information and the molecular properties of key binding sites that can be targeted by small molecular inhibitors or biologics. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr I Dreveny
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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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
 Supervisor: Dr L Z Zhang
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Normothermic Liver and Kidney Perfusion for Organ Preservation, Drug Testing or In Situ Therapies

Research Studentship in Normothermic Machine Perfusion. 3.5-year D.Phil. studentship . Project. Normothermic Liver and Kidney Perfusion for Organ Preservation, Drug Testing or In Situ Therapies. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof RC Carlistle
 3 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Machine learning to predict blood function – towards better haematology analysis

Blood represents a complex mixture of blood cells, plasma proteins, hormones, lipids, salts and water. Blood is good indicator of health, and clinically… Read more
 Supervisors: Prof W Holderbaum, Prof J M Gibbins
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Machine learning for affective manipulation in music brain computer interfaces

At the University of Reading, we have created one of the first music brain computer interfaces (BCI). Read more
 Supervisor: Prof S Nasuto
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Fractional order modelling of neurons

Project Overview. Fractional order calculus (integro-differential equations that are of non-integral order) is an emerging methodology with wide applications across all areas of Physics and Engineering. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Hadjiloucas, Dr E Delivopoulos
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Assessment of phototherapy with model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Project Overview. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is extensively used as model organism and is well understood from a sequencing perspective so up-regulation or down-regulation of gene expression is tractable. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Hadjiloucas, Dr E Delivopoulos
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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