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medical research council PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 99 medical research council PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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How TB-infected macrophages are cleared

Mycobacterium tuberculosis infects macrophages and can commandeer their machinery to survive intracellularly. Infected macrophages aggregate into granulomas, hallmark immunopathological structures of TB. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Levin Konigsberg, Prof L Ramakrishnan
 8 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Golgi function in brain organoids

Membrane traffic between organelles is essential for secretion, uptake of nutrients, and the regulation of signal transduction. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Munro
 8 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Defining neuro-immune circuits in viral infection

The nervous system provides a wide range of signals to immune cells residing in peripheral tissues such as the lung, the salivary glands, the gut or the female reproductive tract. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr N Rodriguez
 8 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhoTiSC: Develop a Novel Platform for Ultrafast Time-and-Position Imaging

Develop a novel ultrafast optical timing platform, from concept to working prototype, that records when and where light arrives, working with industry partners. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Kaplan
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Responsible AI for Critical Systems: Interpretable, Auditable and Real-Time Machine Learning under Real-World Constraints

  Research Group: Intelligent Systems
OPEN TO HOME AND REPUBLIC OF IRELAND STUDENTS ONLY. Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly required to inform decisions in critical systems, where an error is costly, an unexplained output is unusable, and the answer is often needed within microseconds or under strict governance. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr B Gardiner, Dr VD Dwivedi, Dr B Dillon, Dr XD Ding
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Role of nutrition, and gut function in human health and diseases (sarcopenia, frailty, diabetes and cardiovascular diseas); using metabolomics and genomics

Could what we eat reshape the crosstalk between our gut, muscles and heart as we age? This exciting PhD harnesses cutting-edge metabolomics to decode the nutrition-gut-muscle-heart axis, uncovering biomarkers of healthy ageing and novel targets to prevent age-related cardiovasucal and cardiometabolic disease. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Isanejad, Dr H Muhamad Ali, Dr U Alam, Dr VPV Pekovic-Vaughan
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Bioinspired fluidic metamaterials for passive directional water transport - EPSRC DLA studentship for September 2027 entry

Metamaterials use engineered structures to achieve functionality that the constituent materials alone cannot provide. This project explores novel bioinspired fluidic metamaterials which use hierarchical surface patterns inspired by carnivorous plants to control the speed and direction of water transport. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr U Bauer
 8 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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High throughput power ultrasound systems for green process intensification

  Research Group: Centre for Medical and Industrial Ultrasonics (C-MIU)
Applications for a PhD project based at the Centre for Medical and Industrial Ultrasonics (C-MIU), and aligned to a new EPSRC-funded Programme grant SoundCHEM, seeking to industrialise sonochemical processes, are invited. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P Prentice
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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3D Printing Mechanically Adaptive Regenerative Interfaces for Improved Bone Screw Fixation - EPSRC DLA studentship for September 2027 entry

Low back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and presents a significant socioeconomic burden from direct treatment costs, and indirect costs due to losses in productivity. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Vyas
 8 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)