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biotechnology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 379 biotechnology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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How do human blood stem cells adapt to life outside the body? Imaging cellular dynamics to design better culture systems

Blood stem cell transplantation cures many people with leukaemia and gene-edited stem. cell therapies are now reaching patients with inherited blood disorders. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr W Grey, Prof M Peckham, Dr C Spicer
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Bone as a mechanoresponsive material: a density-stratified biocompatible 3D-printed model system for validating stress-driven remodelling predictions at the implant interface

Project Description. Every dental implant relies on a simple assumption. that the surrounding bone is uniform and perfectly bonded to it. Read more
 Supervisors: Mrs F Pires Rodrigues, Dr P Watson, Dr A Moetazedian, Dr C M Neves
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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BBSRC North East England BBSRC Doctoral Landscape

North East England Doctoral Landscape (NEEDL) is a BBSRC-funded strategic Partnership in Biosciences doctoral training between four universities based in the North East of England, Durham University, Newcastle University, Northumbria University and Teesside University. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  BBSRC Doctoral Training Partnership
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BBSRC North East England BBSRC Doctoral Landscape

North East England Doctoral Landscape (NEEDL) is a BBSRC-funded strategic Partnership in Biosciences doctoral training between four universities based in the North East of England, Durham University, Newcastle University, Northumbria University and Teesside University. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  BBSRC Doctoral Training Partnership
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BBSRC North East England BBSRC Doctoral Landscape

North East England Doctoral Landscape (NEEDL) is a BBSRC-funded strategic Partnership in Biosciences doctoral training between four universities based in the North East of England, Durham University, Newcastle University, Northumbria University and Teesside University. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  BBSRC Doctoral Training Partnership
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BBSRC North East England BBSRC Doctoral Landscape

North East England Doctoral Landscape (NEEDL) is a BBSRC-funded strategic Partnership in Biosciences doctoral training between four universities based in the North East of England, Durham University, Newcastle University, Northumbria University and Teesside University. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  BBSRC Doctoral Training Partnership
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Does Fetal Sex Matter? Uncovering Sex-Specific Placental Responses to Maternal Nutrition

  Research Group: Biomedicine
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 Supervisors: Prof R John, Dr SL Langley, Prof A Isles
 2 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Oral dysbiosis and S. aureus: understanding how change in the oral microbiome drive infection risk

Staphylococcus aureus is one of the World Health Organisation’s priority pathogens, causing wide-ranging infections from skin and soft tissue infections to life-threatening conditions such as pneumonia, bloodstream infections and infective endocarditis. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Gupta, Dr A Oates, Dr PS Stafford, Dr T Do
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Single-Molecule Fluorescence Detection of Early-Stage Dementia Biomarkers

Background. The term dementia covers a range of diseases minimally understood and accepted as incurable therefore impacting financially on health care systems and the community affected. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr TS Sabir, Dr S Quinn
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Uncovering molecular switches that drive chronic Staphylococcus aureus infection in Type 2 Diabetes

How do pathogens manipulate host cells to establish long-term infections? Despite major advances in infection biology, many of the molecular mechanisms governing host-pathogen interactions remain unknown. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Haigh, Dr A Oates, Prof M Wright
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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When Oxygen Wakes the Phageome: Phage-Bacteria Interactions in the Human Gut

When Oxygen Wakes the Phageome. Phage-Bacteria Interactions in the Human Gut. Bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) are the most abundant biological entities on Earth and a major, yet poorly understood, component of the human gut microbiome. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Horniblow
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Structure-guided discovery of selective modulators of brain and cancer-associated potassium channels

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 Supervisors: Dr J D Lippiat, Dr K Simmons, Assoc Prof N Georgopoulos
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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The biomechanics and neural control of bird flight in turbulence

Project Description. Birds routinely fly through gusty or turbulent air that can rapidly destabilise their bodies and wings. Unlike conventional aircraft, bird have highly articulated and compliant wings that can absorb these disturbances and help stabilise flight. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr G N Askew, Dr S Windsor
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Enabling the in vivo study of human microglia/ human neuron interactions: a new human-mouse chimeric model for neurological disease

Project Description. How do immune cells help shape the developing human brain? And what happens when this process goes wrong?. This exciting PhD project will create a ground-breaking human-mouse chimera model containing both human neurons and human microglia, the brain's resident immune cells. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Krzisch, Dr J Johnston
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Single-Molecule Optical Sensing of GLP-1 Receptor Conformational Dynamics

Project is suitable for Physicists, Biochemists, Biophysicists, Chemists and Biologists. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof F Vollmer
 2 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)