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MRC NW-DMS DLA programme: Decoding pneumolysin-specifc T cell fate in pneumococcal infection

Streptococcus pneumoniae (the pneumococcus) is the leading bacterial cause of pneumonia and remains a major global health challenge despite the availability of vaccines and antibiotics. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof A Kadioglu, Dr RX Xu
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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MRC NW-DMS DLA programme: Smart Multimodal AI for Refining Thalamic Targeting and Tremor Outcome Prediction

Essential tremor (ET) is the most common movement disorder, affecting millions of people worldwide and causing uncontrollable shaking that can make everyday activities such as writing, eating and dressing difficult. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof A Macerollo, Prof Y Zheng, Mr JO Farah
 27 November 2026  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.

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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MRC NW-DMS DLA programme: Agentic AI to drive functional annotation and drug discovery in a priority fungal pathogen

Fungal disease kills an estimated 3.75 million people a year worldwide — six times more than malaria and three times more than tuberculosis. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof A R Jones, Dr M Bromley, Dr P Kritsiligkou
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Studentship in Machine Intelligence for Paediatric Rare and Complex Disease

Applications are invited for a 3.5-year PhD studentship within Professor Payam Barnaghi’s TMI Lab in the Department of Brain Sciences, at Imperial College London, supported by funding from Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof P Barnaghi
 30 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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EASTBIO SRUC Are happy chickens healthier?

Are you interested in animal behaviour, welfare, physiology, and sustainable livestock production? This exciting PhD at SRUC will investigate one of the most important emerging questions in animal welfare science. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr V Bombail
 30 November 2026  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

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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EASTBIO SRUC Sea lice and wild salmonids: understanding infection risk, connectivity and genomic resistance across Scotland’s coastal waters

Lepeophtheirus salmonis (sea lice) are one of the most significant challenges facing both salmon aquaculture and the conservation of wild Atlantic salmon. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr T Landeryou
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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The Quaternary is the key to our future: using outcrop analogues to reduce uncertainties in offshore windfarm developments

Globally, the scale of offshore wind as a renewable energy source is increasing at a remarkable rate. In the North Sea and Irish Sea, the appraisal of offshore windfarm sites has uncovered a complex Quaternary stratigraphy. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof DM Hodgson, Dr M Thomas, Prof A Booth
 12 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EASTBIO SRUC From Field to Fibre: genomics-led breeding of flax for a resilient Scottish linen industry (CASE)

Linen is one of Europe’s oldest and most sustainable fabrics, yet almost all of it now comes from a narrow band of northern France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Sharma
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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MRC NW-DMS DLA programme: How does pancreatic injury trigger life-threatening organ failure?

Acute pancreatitis is one of the most common gastrointestinal causes of emergency hospital admission. While the disease begins in the pancreas, the most severely affected patients develop inflammation and failure of distant organs, most commonly in the lungs. Read more
 Supervisors: Mr R Mukherjee, Prof R Sutton, Prof P O'Neill
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EASTBIO SRUC Beyond the average fish: personality as a predictor of resilience and welfare

Like humans and other animals, fish have personalities and differ in how they behave. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr P Prentice, Dr A Boerlage, Prof M Haskell
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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SATURN (Skills And Training Underpinning a Renaissance in Nuclear) EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre in Nuclear Energy

Take your place in the next generation of nuclear experts by joining our fully funded four year Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) PhD in SATURN (Skills And Training Underpinning a Renaissance in Nuclear). Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (UK Students Only)  EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training
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SATURN (Skills And Training Underpinning a Renaissance in Nuclear) EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre in Nuclear Energy

Take your place in the next generation of nuclear experts by joining our fully funded four year Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) PhD in SATURN (Skills And Training Underpinning a Renaissance in Nuclear). Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (UK Students Only)  EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training
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SATURN (Skills And Training Underpinning a Renaissance in Nuclear) EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre in Nuclear Energy

Take your place in the next generation of nuclear experts by joining our fully funded four year Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) PhD in SATURN (Skills And Training Underpinning a Renaissance in Nuclear). Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (UK Students Only)  EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training