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pharmacology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 104 pharmacology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Structure-Guided Discovery of Modulators for Class B1 GPCRs in Neurological and Endocrine Disease

Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr G Deganutti
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Investigating mammalian cell adaptation using engineered reporter cells, microfluidics and quantitative approaches

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Living cells continuously sense and respond to changes in their environment through signalling pathways. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr C Giuraniuc, Prof V Speirs, Prof C Grebogi
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Location Location Location: Investigating the Spatiotemporal Control of GPCR Signalling

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) regulate almost all physiological processes and attractive targets for the pharmaceutical industry. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr D Thompson, Dr P Annibale
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EASTBIO Where the brain learns: synaptic mechanisms of prediction-error plasticity

One of the most fascinating features of the brain is its ability to constantly predict what will happen next. For instance, when we move, our brains expect certain sights and sounds that indicate what we are doing. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Zwart, Prof D McLean
 16 November 2026  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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Understanding How Blood Vessel Cells Communicate in Cardiovascular Disease

Cardiovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis and aortic aneurysms develop when communication between cells in the blood vessel wall becomes disrupted. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr JSC Serbanovic-Canic, Dr V Ridger
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Exploring the toxicological impacts of air pollution using advanced in-vitro approaches

Air pollution is a major public health emergency, responsible for more than 7 million deaths each year and contributing significantly to health inequalities. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr AV Voliotis, Dr C Bussy
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of Novel Small-Molecule Therapeutics for Oncology

Applications are invited from high-calibre international candidates for a self-funded PhD project in medicinal chemistry and cancer drug discovery with Dr Ali Raoof. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr AR Raoof, Dr S Butterworth
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Innovative Drug Discovery: First-in-Class Small Molecules for Unmet Medical Needs

This PhD project will develop first-in-class small-molecule therapeutic candidates for diseases with substantial unmet medical need. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof X Lei
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Disease Mechanisms: From Phenotypic Discovery to New Therapeutic Targets

Projects in this direction will investigate molecular mechanisms that drive major human diseases and identify new therapeutic targets. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof X Lei
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Chemical Biology: Small-Molecule Probes to Decode Biological Processes

Projects in this direction will use small molecules and bioactive natural products to investigate fundamental biological questions across human, plant, animal and microbial systems. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof X Lei
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Development of a Human Cholinergic Co-culture Model to Investigate α-Synuclein-Induced Neurodegeneration in Parkinson's Disease Dementia and Dementia with Lewy Bodies

Neurodegenerative diseases represent one of the greatest biomedical challenges of the 21st century. Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD) and Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB) affect millions worldwide and remain without disease-modifying therapies. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr I Pienaar
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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
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Leveraging Precision Medicine to Predict an Adverse Drug Reaction

The tragedy of adverse drug reaction (ADRs) is synonymous with thalidomide yet in the context of mental health (MH) patients, intolerable side effects of psychiatric medication, leading to poor concordance, with the likelihood of further deterioration and possible involuntary treatment, is emerging as a very serious health issue. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Jones, Dr M Castellani, Prof DT Pham
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Dual Ended HDAC-Bcl-2 Inhibitor Therapeutics (DEHBIT): A Continuous Flow Chemistry Approach to Next-Generation Polypharmacological Cancer Therapeutics

Background and Scientific Rationale . Cancer remains one of the most significant global health challenges, characterised by complex, multifactorial disease mechanisms requiring equally sophisticated therapeutic strategies. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Sellars
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