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Precision Medicine DLA- Integrating Biological Vulnerability, Social Context, and Neurodevelopment to Understand Inequalities in Adolescent Depression Risk and Treatment

University of Edinburgh
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Additional supervisors. Dr Shuyang Yao (Karonlinska Institutet) & Liana Romaniuk (University of Glasgow). Background. Adolescence is a sensitive developmental window in which depression and related mental-health difficulties often first emerge. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr X Shen, Dr H Whalley, Dr A Kwong
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Precision Medicine DLA – Forecast: Predicting Antibiotic Resistance from Susceptibility Data

University of Edinburgh
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Additional supervisor. Dr Simon Dewar (NHS Lothian). Background. We are engaged in a continual arms race in combatting antibiotic resistance1. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T Schneiders, Dr A Weisse
 11 January 2027  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)

University of Edinburgh
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
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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Precision Medicine DLA – Precision Psychiatry Through the Eye: Retinal Biomarkers for Predicting Lithium Response in Bipolar Disorder

University of Edinburgh
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Background. Bipolar disorder affects millions of people worldwide and is associated with substantial health inequalities, including reduced life expectancy, high rates of physical comorbidity, and barriers to timely access to effective treatment. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof JM Martinovic, Dr T MacGillivray, Prof D Smith, Dr A Onken
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Precision Medicine DLA – Free the Hippo – to release Glaucoma Pressure

University of Edinburgh
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Additional supervisor. Prof Craig Wheelock (Karolinska Institutet). Background. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr C G Hansen, Dr P Bagnaninchi, Dr A Tatham
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Precision Medicine DLA – Mental Health and Diseases of Older Age Among People with Autism or Autistic Traits: AI and Medical Record Linkage in UK Biobank and SPARK

University of Edinburgh
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Additional supervisors. Dr Rona J Strawbridge (University of Glasgow) & Dr Kristiina Tammimies (Karolinska Institutet). Background. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr K Nicodemus, Dr B Auyeung
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Precision Medicine DLA – Building the Foundations for Precision Biomarkers of Brain Health: Linking Retinal Microvascular Structure, Blood Flow and Imaging Measurements

University of Edinburgh
School of Physics and Astronomy
Background. Major neurological disorders, including dementia and cerebrovascular disease, create an urgent need for accessible biomarkers that enable earlier diagnosis, improved risk stratification, and more personalised care. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr D Fairhurst, Dr T MacGillivray, Dr J H J Thijssen
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Precision Medicine DLA – Development and validation of an AI decision-support tool to improve the equitable diagnosis and risk stratification of patients presenting to the Emergency Department

University of Edinburgh
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Additional supervisor. Prof Derek T Connelly (University of Glasgow). Background. Cardiovascular disease frequently presents with symptoms such as acute chest pain or breathlessness. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr D Doudesis, Dr K Lee
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Precision Medicine DLA - Towards precision diagnostics for asymptomatic bacteriuria-related cognitive decline

University of Edinburgh
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Background. Bacteria in the urinary tract are a major risk factor for urinary tract infections (UTI), accounting for over 400 million cases every year globally. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T Bachmann, Dr S Cox, Dr LM McCulloch, Dr M Perry
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Precision Medicine DLA - Time is of the essence: Temporal Modelling of Frailty Profiles in Routine Health Data for Equitable Risk Stratification.

University of Edinburgh
College of Science and Engineering
Additional Supervisor. Associate Professor Sara Hägg [Karolinska Institutet]. Background. Frailty (often defined as a reduced resilience to stressors) is conventionally quantified as a Frailty Index (FI), which compresses information about multiple health deficits into a single score [1]. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr MP Camilleri, Prof S Shenkin, Dr A Anand
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Precision Medicine DLA – How does genetic variation shape antiviral immunity and disease susceptibility via RNA Splicing?

University of Edinburgh
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Background. Susceptibility to viral infection is shaped not only by which genes an individual carries, but by how those genes are then regulated. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Sloan, Dr R Young
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Precision Medicine DLA - Exploration of genetic, environmental, and sex-specific risk factors to reduce colorectal cancer incidence and inequalities

University of Edinburgh
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Additional Supervisor. Dr Kathryn Pennel [University of Glasgow]. Background. With significant disparities in incidence, progression, and outcomes, influenced by genetic, environmental, and sex-specific factors, colorectal cancer remains one of the leading causes of cancer related mortality. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Farrington, Dr VR Rajasekaran, Dr P Bankhead
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Precision Medicine DLA – Precision profiling of sensory and cognitive processing in neurodevelopmental conditions: language-free digital assessment, EEG and computational modelling for stratification

University of Edinburgh
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Background. Precision medicine in neurodevelopmental conditions is limited by measurement. Diagnosis rests on observed behaviour, outcome measures in trials are parent- or clinician-rated questionnaires, and the sensory differences that dominate lived experience in FXS and autism have no objective, scalable measure. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Pagan, Dr A Stanfield
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Precision Medicine DLA – Who can the service see? Observability, health equality and AI in inflammatory bowel disease

University of Edinburgh
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Additional supervisor. Prof Jonas F. Ludvigsson (Karolina Institutet). Background. Health services can only act on what they can see. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof C Lees, Dr C Vallejos
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Precision Medicine DLA – Deciphering the vasoreactivity signature in the human eye for personalised stratification and treatment response in cerebral small vessel disease

University of Edinburgh
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Background. Cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) is a major cause of stroke and dementia, but we lack accessible, individual-level markers of the microvascular dysfunction driving it. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr I MacCormick, Dr T MacGillivray, Dr S King, Prof SV van Veluw, Prof J Wardlaw
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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