emerging disease PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

The causes and consequences of heterogeneity in parasite infection and transmission potential

University of Edinburgh School of Biological Sciences

Research Group: Institute of Ecology & Evolution

Summary. Despite on-going concerns about emerging disease threats, we don’t understand what factors drive heterogeneities in parasite burdens, disease, or how to control infections in variable host populations. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Pedersen, Prof A Fenton

17 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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NERC E4 The causes and consequences of heterogeneity in parasite infection and transmission potential

University of Edinburgh School of Biological Sciences

Research Group: Institute of Ecology & Evolution

Summary. Despite on-going concerns about emerging disease threats, we don’t understand what factors drive heterogeneities in parasite burdens, disease, or how to control infections in variable host populations. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Pedersen, Prof A Fenton

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Modelling the spread and control of livestock and zoonotic infectious diseases

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Mathematical models are extensively used in both public-health and veterinary-health policy planning. Modern predictive models are now at the heart of policy decisions, and such models are having an increasing role in supporting decisions associated with livestock infections. Read more

Supervisor: Prof M Tildesley

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Precision Medicine DTP - Epigenetic profiling associated with environmental exposure stress for stratifying disease risk

University of Edinburgh College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine

Research Group: Centre for Cardiovascular Science

Additional supervisor. Prof Roland Wolf [University of Dundee]. Background. Read more

Supervisors: Dr S Pennings, Dr RI Illingworth

15 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Investigating gut-immune interactions in Parkinson’s disease

University of Cambridge Department of Clinical Neurosciences

It is now well established that both gastrointestinal dysfunction and immune activation occur in early Parkinson’s disease, and emerging evidence indicates that these processes are linked to faster disease progression. Read more

Supervisor: Dr C Williams-Gray

5 December 2023 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Incremental machine learning with emerging new classes and application to edge computing [Self-Funded Students only]

Cardiff University Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics

Research Group: Complex Systems

Standard classification methods can only classify pre-defined classes, i.e., they classify a new instance into one (or multiple) of the known classes. Read more

Supervisor: Dr Y Li

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Understanding how inflammation affects brain disease

The University of Manchester Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

We know that both peripheral and central inflammation influence neurological disease. This influence progresses and worsens diverse brain diseases, but the mechanisms involved are poorly understood. Read more

Supervisors: Prof D Brough, Dr C Lawrence

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Extracellular vesicles in health and disease

University of Reading Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences

Endothelial dysfunction (ED) is associated with classical and emerging risk factors of cardiovascular disease (CVD), correlates with disease progression and is an independent predictor of the risk of future cardiovascular events. Read more

Supervisors: Prof P Yaqoob, Dr D Tannetta

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Cross-tissue and cross-disease immunometabolic landscape characterisation at single-cell resolution

University of Oxford Division of Medical Sciences

Commercial partner: Janssen Biotech, Inc. Immune cells play a fundamental role in health and disease, with many of their functions relying on the careful orchestration of metabolic and energetic pathways. Read more

Supervisors: Dr C Dendrou, Prof H Uhlig, Dr S Taylor

1 December 2023 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Deconvoluting the spatial multi-omic landscape of high-grade glioma to target post-surgical residual disease

University of Sheffield School of Medicine and Population Health

Background. High-grade gliomas are the most common cancers arising within the brain and contribute to ~190,000 brain tumour related deaths/year globally. Read more

Supervisors: Dr S Collis, Dr O Rominiyi, Dr M Dunning

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Optimising the Prevention and Management of Osgood-Schlatter’s Disease in Academy Footballers

University of Bath Department for Health

Research Group: Centre for Health and Injury and Illness Prevention in Sport (CHi2PS)

The University of Bath is inviting applications for the following PhD project in the Department for Health commencing in January or March 2024. Read more

Supervisors: Prof S Cummings, Dr S Williams

6 December 2023 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Understanding the contribution of sleep dysfunction to the clinical features and pathogenesis of Huntington’s Disease

University of Cambridge Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Sleep dysfunction is prevalent across the spectrum of neurodegenerative disease, and growing evidence suggests that this may exacerbate both the clinical features and pathobiology of these conditions. Read more

Supervisor: Dr R Barker

5 December 2023 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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MSc by Research: ADP-ribosylation in dementia and motor neuron disease

University of Dundee School of Life Sciences

ADP-ribosylation is a fundamental posttranslational modification where ADP-ribose is linked on to target proteins by ADP-ribose transferases and removed by the ADP-ribose hydrolases. Read more

Supervisor: Dr L McGurk

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Effect of plant host resistance on virus populations of barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) and their transmissibility by aphids

University of Greenwich London Interdisciplinary Biosciences Consortium

Barley yellow dwarf disease (BYDV) is one of the most important and re-emerging diseases of cereals in Europe and is responsible for major losses on the production of cereal crops globally. Read more

Supervisors: Dr S Bouvaine, Dr G Silva, Dr L Gonzalez-Penades, Dr C Burt

10 January 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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QUADRAT DTP: Exploiting bio-medical advances to explore the ecology of the wild ungulate respiratory virome in health and disease

Queen’s University Belfast School of Biological Sciences

This fully funded, 42-month PhD project is part of the QUADRAT Doctoral Training Partnership. Respiratory disease in wild ungulates is poorly documented but can have dramatic impacts on populations. Read more

Supervisors: Dr C Bamford, Dr M Moseley

17 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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We have 94 emerging disease PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

emerging disease PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 94 emerging disease PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

The causes and consequences of heterogeneity in parasite infection and transmission potential

NERC E4 The causes and consequences of heterogeneity in parasite infection and transmission potential

Modelling the spread and control of livestock and zoonotic infectious diseases

Precision Medicine DTP - Epigenetic profiling associated with environmental exposure stress for stratifying disease risk

Investigating gut-immune interactions in Parkinson’s disease

Incremental machine learning with emerging new classes and application to edge computing [Self-Funded Students only]

Understanding how inflammation affects brain disease

Extracellular vesicles in health and disease

Cross-tissue and cross-disease immunometabolic landscape characterisation at single-cell resolution

Deconvoluting the spatial multi-omic landscape of high-grade glioma to target post-surgical residual disease

Optimising the Prevention and Management of Osgood-Schlatter’s Disease in Academy Footballers

Understanding the contribution of sleep dysfunction to the clinical features and pathogenesis of Huntington’s Disease

MSc by Research: ADP-ribosylation in dementia and motor neuron disease

Effect of plant host resistance on virus populations of barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) and their transmissibility by aphids

QUADRAT DTP: Exploiting bio-medical advances to explore the ecology of the wild ungulate respiratory virome in health and disease

We have 94 emerging disease PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

emerging disease PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 94 emerging disease PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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