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Precision Medicine DLA - Collaborative: Predicting Progression in Multiple Sclerosis Using Wearable Technologies, Retinal Imaging and Blood Biomarkers

University of Edinburgh
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Additional Supervisor. Dr (Principal Research Fellow) Trinh Duong [University College London]. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr D Mahad, Dr T MacGillivray, Dr GA Andreopoulou, Prof S Vijayakumar
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Precision Medicine DLA - Collaborative. Emergency hospital admissions: towards more equitable and actionable risk prediction.

University of Edinburgh
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Additional Supervisor. Prof Louis JM Aslett [Durham University]. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr CV Vallejos, Dr PG Gallacher
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Precision Medicine DLA - Collaborative: Precision Modulation of Macrophages using Chemokine-RNA Therapeutics to Regress Fibrosis and Address Treatment Inequalities in Chronic Liver Diseases

University of Edinburgh
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Collaborative Project - MRC’s Collaborative awards provide students with experience of collaborative research with a non-academic partner, enabling the student to spend a period of time with the partner (usually no less than three months over the lifetime of the PhD). Read more
 Supervisors: Prof M Vendrell, Dr P Ramachandran, Dr F N Nadal-Bufi
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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INVESTIGATING PATHOGENIC MECHANISMS AND THERAPEUTIC TARGETS FOR MTDNA MUTATIONS

University of Birmingham
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) are the most common cause of inherited mitochondrial disease and are increasingly implicated in common age-related conditions including neurodegeneration. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S A Ahola
 29 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Long-term effects of GLP-1 medicines on immunometabolic fitness

MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS)
Postgraduate Studies
GLP-1 medicines are transforming the treatment of obesity and related complications, with benefits that extend beyond weight loss and glucose control. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr CK Wong, Dr W Scott
 18 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Spatial and three-dimensional genome regulation during zygotic genome activation

MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS)
Postgraduate Studies
Zygotic genome activation (ZGA) marks the transition from maternal to embryonic control of development and provides a tractable system in which to examine how regulatory genome function is established (1). Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Vaquerizas, Dr A Russell
 18 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Mutate, model, predict: uncovering how regulatory elements encode gene expression dynamics

MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS)
Postgraduate Studies
How does our genome ensure that the right genes are expressed in the right cells and at the right time during development? Although much of this control is encoded in non-coding, cis-regulatory elements, we still lack the ability to predict how regulatory DNA contributes to precise gene expression outputs. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr V Metzis, Dr R Perez-Carrasco, Dr J Ware
 18 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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The Double-edged Sword of Sex-specific Immune Responsiveness

MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS)
Postgraduate Studies
Female individuals are better able to cope with certain infections. On the other hand, females suffer from autoimmune diseases significantly more often than males1. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof M Merkenschlager, Dr L Allou
 18 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Engineered proteins to protect plants and animals from parasites

MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS)
Postgraduate Studies
We are discovering and designing proteins that selectively kill invertebrate pests and parasites but are safe for humans and other animals. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Brown, Dr K Sarkisyan
 18 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Quantifying drug response in cancer using 4D using Oblique Plane Microscopy and Optical Coherence Tomography

MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS)
Postgraduate Studies
Heterogeneity in drug response is a confounder to successful cancer treatment. Even within genetically identical populations, cells respond differently to drugs due to factors including stochasticity in gene expression, cell cycle phase/state and the environment. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Barr, Prof C Dunsby, Dr S Ros
 18 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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(BBSRC NWD) Photocatalytic proximity labelling for high precision mapping of RNA and protein interactomes

The University of Manchester
Department of Chemistry
The physical closeness between biomolecules inside a cell, termed proximity, is central to modern drug discovery, especially at the interface between RNA and the proteins that bind it. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Trowbridge, Dr JD Worboys
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Funded PhD – Unravelling the Causal Pathways Between Selective Glomerular Hypofiltration Syndrome and Cardiovascular Disease Using Genetic Epidemiology - HLSUOB26

University of Bristol
Bristol Medical School
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a leading global health crisis, with the vast majority of excess deaths driven by cardiovascular disease (CVD). Read more
 Supervisors: Dr G Hemani, Prof S Satchell, Dr VW Walker, Dr S Hayward
 13 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Fully funded PhD studentship in synthetic biology and gene editing (University of Cambridge)

University of Cambridge
Department of Chemistry
Applications are invited for a fully funded 3.5-year PhD studentship in the field of synthetic biology and gene editing, based in the Department of Chemistry at Cambridge University under the supervision of Dr Julian Willis. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Willis
 8 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Medical Research Council-funded PhD Programme in 3i Biomedical Research

University of Warwick
Warwick Medical School
Applications open to home students only. Several fully funded four-year ‘Core' studentships are available for September 2027 to join Warwick's MRC-funded Doctoral Training Partnership (MRC DTP). Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (UK Students Only)  MRC Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE)
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MSc by Research: New technologies to monitor assembly of alternative forms of the proteasome

University of Dundee
Faculty of Life Sciences
The Rousseau lab is interested in decoding how protein degradation by the proteasome is regulated in cells so that accumulation of unfolded, misfolded, or damaged proteins can be cleared before they become deleterious. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Rousseau
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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