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We have 525 medicine PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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A novel treatment strategy for incurable brain tumours: the chemistry of a cold electrically-excited atmospheric plasma (CAP)-enhanced drug delivery system (in collaboration with Plasma4) (C3.5-MPS-Short)

A fully funded PhD opportunity to participate in the world-leading research undertaken by the EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award at the University of Sheffield. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof RS Short, Dr G Wells, Prof SJ Collis, Dr A Robson
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Equitable Cardiovascular Risk Prediction Through Personalised Blood Flow Modelling

About the Project. Despite major advances in cardiovascular prevention, many patients who experience serious cardiovascular events would not be identified as high risk by current clinical prediction tools. Read more
 Supervisor: Assoc Prof SB Beier
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Evaluating novel injectable bone substitutes to improve early outcomes for total ankle replacement (S3.5-MAC-Brockett)

A fully funded PhD opportunity to participate in the world-leading research undertaken by the EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award at the University of Sheffield. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof C Brockett, Prof CLM Le Maitre, Prof C Miller
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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How does radiation affect our DNA, and why does it matter more now than ever? (S3.5-CMB-Pyne)

A fully funded PhD opportunity to participate in the world-leading research undertaken by the EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award at the University of Sheffield. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Pyne, Dr R Peters, Prof H Bryant
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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IN-SIGHT PhD Programme 2026/2027

How does a fundamental biological discovery become a medicine that changes lives? If that question excites you, IN-SIGHT is the PhD programme for you. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  MRC Doctoral Landscape Award
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Fully funded positions at the PhD School of Life Sciences at the University of Geneva - Switzerland

The PhD School of Life Sciences of the Faculties of Medicine and Science at the University of Geneva offers an outstanding study and research environment. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  Switzerland PhD Programme
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Fully Funded 4-Year Cheney Scholarship PhD Programme in In Situ Biology

The Cheney Scholarship is a prestigious 4-year PhD programme in in situ biology, designed to train the next generation of scientists to tackle the most complex challenges in biology and medicine. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (UK Students Only)  4 Year PhD Programme
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(MCRC Non-Clinical) Molecular déjà vu: understanding RNA and DNA biology for precision therapy in AML

Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML) is the most common form of leukaemia in adults with over 3,000 new diagnoses per year in the UK. Currently the management of AML relies heavily on antimetabolite chemotherapies. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr JK Knight, Dr K Batta, Dr D Wiseman
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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(MCRC Clinical) Finding the Achilles' Heel of Drug-Resistant Breast Cancer: Exploiting Synthetic Lethal Vulnerabilities in Transcription Factor Signalling

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. Every year in the UK, around 55,000 patients are diagnosed with breast cancer, and only 23% of them have preventable disease. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Nagarajan, Dr A Armstrong, Dr SM Mohan, Prof A Sharrocks, Dr A Gilmore, Dr B Simoes
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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The role of exosomal microRNAs in pancreatic cancer diagnosis and therapy response.

We are seeking applications to join the Hughes group at York St John University (see https://www.yorksj.ac.uk/our-staff/thomas-hughes.php) from candidates interested in pursuing PhD research into the diagnosis and biology of pancreatic cancer. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof T Hughes
 2 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Health PhD

Interested in health, wellbeing and performance? The Health PhD at the University of Bath offers the opportunity to undertake original research with expert supervision. Read more
 Self-Funded PhD Students Only  Social Sciences Research Programme
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Investigating neurodevelopmental disorders caused by defects in the protein synthesis machinery

  Research Group: Division of Neuroscience
Background. Translation of mRNA into proteins is a critical cellular process for normal development and function. An increasing number of genetic disorders caused by variants in genes encoding translation factors are now known. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr P Kasher, Prof S Banka, Prof G D Pavitt
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Banking Breath: Biofabrication of Cryopreservable Lung Organoid Disease Models

Human lung organoids - miniature, lab-grown models of the human airway - are transforming how we study lung disease and test new treatments. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Domingos, Dr S Vranic, Prof m Gibson
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Self-supervising Heart AI to Detect Obstruction Without Stress

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common inherited heart disease, affecting 1 in 500 people. In many patients, the thickened heart muscle intermittently blocks blood flow out of the heart but – in a proportion of patients (up to 35%) - does so only under conditions of physical exertion. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr F Costen, Prof AC Crean
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Electrophysiology of Bacterial Biofilms

Bacteria are the most numerous living organisms on planet Earth (~10^30) and most of them spend the majority on their lives encased in biofilms [1]. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T Waigh, Dr R Krasovec
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)