coding PhD Projects, Programs & Scholarships

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Efficient coding models can successfully explain the emergence of different features detectors along the visual pathway, such as center-surround receptive fields, simple and complex cells, and even higher-level visual neurons.

Implications of Long Non-Coding RNAs in Hair Growth Control

Monasterium Laboratory
Dermatology

Dr N Botchkareva, Dr Mrs Bertolini

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Monasterium Laboratory (ML) is offering a fully-funded PhD studentship to work at our state-of-the-art laboratory in the beautiful city of Münster, Germany (www.monasteriumlab.com).

Non-coding RNA regulation of stem cells

University of Sheffield
Department of Biomedical Science

Dr S Brown, Dr P Gokhale

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Stem cells have the potential to make any cell type in the Human body and are powerful tools in drug discovery (Xia and Wong, 2012).

Investigation of the Role of Long Non Coding RNA During Skin Development and Wound Healing

Nottingham Trent University
School of Science & Technology

Dr M Ahmed

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Skin morphogenesis occurs under stringent control of epithelial-mesenchymal interactions and result in a formation of the epidermis and a number of different skin appendages (including, the hair follicle, HF).

Non coding RNAs in Adrenocortical Cancer

University of Technology Sydney
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology

Prof G. Hutvagner

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Background. Industry, society or clinical need for project and scientific rationale. Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare disease which occurs with an annual incidence of 2-4 cases per million with a five-year survival of less than 16-38%.

Physical layer network coding for multihop wireless networks

University of York
Department of Electronic Engineering

Research Group: Communication Technologies

Prof A Burr

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

The “Internet of Things” (IoT) involves very large numbers of wireless nodes embedded in appliances, vehicles, physical infrastructure, and our environment in general, for applications such as the “smart home” or “smart city”, all wirelessly connected to the core Internet.

Optimised acquisition and coding for future immersive formats based on deep scene analysis

University of Bristol
Faculty of Engineering

Prof D Bull, Prof I Gilchrist

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached for UK and EU students, though the amount may depend on your nationality. Non-EU students may still be able to apply for the project provided they can find separate funding. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Background. The University of Bristol, through Bristol Vision Institute (BVI), is a world leader in vision science and vision engineering.

Using CRISPR genome editing to determine the effects of obesity and hypertension associated polymorphisms

Aberdeen University
School of Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition

Dr A MacKenzie, Prof M Delibegovic

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Introduction. There is now little doubt that morbid conditions such as obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes are mechanistically linked.

Integrative structural biology of 3’UTRs

Masaryk University
CEITEC

Dr P J Lukavsky, Dr B Tichý, Prof Z Zdrahal

Application Deadline: 31 October 2019

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

The non-coding part of the genome vastly increased from worm to humans while the number of protein-coding genes remained constant.

Bioinformatics based project - Determining the link between gut microbiome and blood pressure

Monash University
School of Biological Sciences

Dr F Marques

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

A fully funded PhD scholarship is available for an Australian or international student through the School of Biological Sciences and Monash University.