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Disentangling Diabetes: A Novel Genetic Decomposition Approach

University of Exeter
Clinical and Biomedical Sciences
The GW4 BioMed3 Doctoral Landscape Programme is offering up to 18 MRC funded studentships across a range of biomedical disciplines, with a start date of October 2027. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Beaumont
 21 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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How does temperature shape selection for resistance across different antibiotics, strains, and species

University of Exeter
Ecology and Conservation
The GW4 BioMed3 Doctoral Landscape Programme is offering up to 18 MRC funded studentships across a range of biomedical disciplines, with a start date of October 2027. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Padfield
 21 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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AI scientists for understanding dementia modifiable risk factors

University of Exeter
Computer Science
The GW4 BioMed3 Doctoral Landscape Programme is offering up to 18 MRC funded studentships across a range of biomedical disciplines, with a start date of October 2027. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr H Dong
 21 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Phage Power: Optimising Treatments for Bacterial Co-Infections

University of Exeter
Ecology and Conservation
The GW4 BioMed3 Doctoral Landscape Programme is offering up to 18 MRC funded studentships across a range of biomedical disciplines, with a start date of October 2027. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Castledine
 21 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Mapping the Developing Brain: Linking Structure and Function through Imaging

Cardiff University
Cardiff School of Psychology
This PhD project explores how young children’s brain develops during the first five years of life and how this shapes thinking, language, and self-control. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof M Cercignani, Dr M Palombo
 21 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Chronic pain, sensory hypersensitivity and neurodiversity: why are they linked?

Cardiff University
Cardiff School of Psychology
Chronic pain conditions such as fibromyalgia, dysmenorrhea and back pain affect millions of people and severely disrupt daily life. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof P Sumner
 21 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Pain as neurobiological surprise: Using human brain imaging and animal studies to advance new concepts in persistent pain.

Cardiff University
Cardiff School of Psychology
We experience surprise when our best guess about the immediate future turns out to be wrong. This can be dangerous. it might mean tripping on an unexpectedly loose stone, or underestimating the temperature of a saucepan and burning your hand. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr GT Tackley, Dr J Davies
 21 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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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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T cell signalling in fibrotic feedback loops

Babraham Institute (Cambridge)
Babraham Institute Graduate Programme
Project Title. T cell signalling in fibrotic feedback loops. Fibrosis is a pathological feature of many chronic inflammatory diseases, characterized by extracellular matrix (ECM) dysregulation, connective tissue accumulation, and complex immune-stromal feedback loops. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Richard
 8 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Cross-Species determinants of stress susceptibility in PSC-derived Neural Progenitors and Spinal Motor Neurons

Babraham Institute (Cambridge)
Babraham Institute Graduate Programme
Project Title. Cross-Species determinants of stress susceptibility in PSC-derived Neural Progenitors and Spinal Motor Neurons. Life unfolds at remarkably different speeds across species, yet the molecular mechanisms that regulate developmental tempo remain poorly understood. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr T Rayon
 8 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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The dark side of DNA

Babraham Institute (Cambridge)
Babraham Institute Graduate Programme
Project Title. The dark side of DNA. Project Outline. We think of DNA as a stable information source compartmentalised to the nucleus and mitochondria. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Houseley
 8 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Preclinical human neural organoid and computational/AI model development

University of Cambridge
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Summary. Human neural organoids grown from patient-specific iPSCs have emerged as a promising preclinical model that can reproduce important details of human CNS development, tissue architecture and pathology. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Lakatos
 8 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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The placenta and lifelong health of mothers and their offspring

University of Bristol
Bristol Medical School
The placenta is critical to a healthy pregnancy yet is often described as the least understood human organ. This project will investigate the genetic and environmental determinants and long term health consequences of placental impairment using newly generated, globally unique placental pathology data. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof A Fraser
 21 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Modelling HIV transmission and the impact of innovations in preexposure prophylaxis against a background of structural and behavioural complexity

University of Bristol
Bristol Medical School
This PhD investigates HIV transmission and the impact of oral and injectable PrEP using mathematical modelling, exploring adherence, risk perception and behavioural factors. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr E Colman
 21 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Cycles, signals and causality: Exploring methods for robust analysis of digital health data across menstrual cycles

University of Bristol
Bristol Medical School
CycleTrack is collecting high-quality menstrual health data across multiple cycles. This PhD will assess potential biases in analysing complex digital health datasets and investigate methods to mitigate them, developing expertise in data science, statistics, epidemiology and digital health. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr L Millard
 21 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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