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medical genetics PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 57 medical genetics PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Therapeutic resolution of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) by natural products

  Research Group: Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a devastating cardiovascular disorder which, if left untreated, leads to heart failure and death. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T Nasim, Prof C Wright
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Re-purposing established drugs for the resolution of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)

  Research Group: Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a devastating cardiovascular disorder which, if left untreated, leads to heart failure and death. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T Nasim, Dr K Assi
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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UKRI BBSRCNEEDL DLA: Engineering Endophytic Symbionts for Programmable RNAi-Based Control of Coffee Berry Borer

CASE Project. This exciting interdisciplinary PhD will explore a new approach to sustainable agriculture by combining synthetic biology, microbiology, molecular genetics and insect science to develop programmable microbial systems for crop protection. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Edwards
 24 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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UKRI BBSRC NEEDL DLA : Integrating mammalian pharyngeal endoderm and Drosophila models to uncover conserved epithelial regulatory networks in cardiovascular development

Congenital heart defects are the most common birth defects in humans, yet many of the fundamental biological mechanisms that drive normal heart and tissue development remain poorly understood. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Bamforth
 24 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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A Hostile Niche: How Mutant Blood Stem Cells Damage Their Healthy Neighbours (MISTRY_U27DTP)

Primary Supervisor - Dr Jayna Mistry. As people age, some blood stem cells acquire mutations that give them a growth advantage over their normal counterparts. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Mistry
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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DPhil Programmes in Cardiovascular Science at the University of Oxford

Cardiovascular disease, including heart attacks and strokes, remains the leading cause of premature death and disability in Europe and the USA. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  4 Year PhD Programme
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(BBSRC NWD) Targeting Septal Plugging to Disrupt the Evolution of Antifungal Resistance in Hyphal Networks

  Research Group: Division of Evolution, Infection and Genomics
Fungal infections cause over 2.5 million deaths annually. Aspergillus fumigatus is one of the leading causes of invasive fungal disease. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Bottery, Dr M Bromley, Dr C Knight
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Precision Medicine DLA – Precision Retinal Biomarkers for Inherited Retinal Diseases (PR-BIRD)

Background. Inherited Retinal Dystrophies (IRDs) are the leading cause of blindness in children and adults of working age1, affecting thousands of individuals across the UK. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr RM Megaw, Dr T MacGillivray, Dr CS Stanton
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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UKRI BBSRC NEEDL DLA: Unravelling the Ubiquitination Code: Connecting Phosphate Signalling and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis

Phosphorus (P) is an essential nutrient that is frequently limiting for plant growth. Plants respond to low phosphate by launching sophisticated phosphate-starvation responses to call for beneficial soil fungi, arbuscular mycorrhizae (AM). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Choi
 24 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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EASTBIO: How does the human fungal pathogen, Candida albicans exploit its metabolic flexibility to evade host immunity.

Fungal pathogens kill almost 2 million people every year. The most common human fungal pathogen is Candida albicans, a WHO-priority target. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr V Makrantoni, Dr S Jenkins, Dr A Alpi, Prof C Munro
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Therapeutic resolution of Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS) by natural products

  Research Group: Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are a type of blood cancer where the patients do not have enough healthy blood cells. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T Nasim, Dr M Najafzadeh
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Cardiovascular development: Understanding how biomechanical forces regulate heart valve morphogenesis in the embryo

  Research Group: Chow Group
The Project. In the developing embryo, the heart begins as a simple, straight tube that pumps blood inefficiently. As the embryo grows, the heart twists and grows and morphs into a four-chambered organ with intricate cardiac structures. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Chow
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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International Max Planck Research School for Infectious Diseases and Immunology

The International Max Planck Research School for Infectious Diseases and Immunology (IMPRS-IDI) is a vibrant international doctoral program with about 70 doctoral students from more than 20 different countries. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  Max Planck Research Programme
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The Radcliffe Department of Medicine Four Year PhD Scholars Programme

The Radcliffe Department of Medicine at the University of Oxford is a large, multi-disciplinary department, with research interests that span the translational spectrum, from basic biology through to clinical application. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  4 Year PhD Programme
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12 fully funded Ph.D. positions at the Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research

The Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research (CGA) in Germany is a joint venture of the University of Excellence Cluster on Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), the University and University Hospital Cologne, the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing and the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  Max Planck Research Programme