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PhD in Soft Robotics

Soft robots are a relatively new form of robotic system that has seen a significant increase in interest in recent years. Unlike a traditional robot, soft robots do not consist of hard, heavy, and rigid material and instead are formed from lightweight flexible materials. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Davis
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Understanding the mechanisms underlying cognitive training effects

Can the repetitive practice of cognitive tasks – as in ’brain training’ programs – effectively enhance cognitive abilities such as reasoning? After more than 20 years of intensive research efforts, this question is still highly controversial, with prior studies and meta-analyses yielding inconsistent results. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C von Bastian
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Stroke in South Asian populations

Stroke is the third leading cause of death and the commonest cause of disability. The World Health Organisation estimates that by 2050 around 80% of the entire world’s burden of stroke will be in India and China. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof P Sharma
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Constrained control and set invariance

Invariant sets play an important and fundamental role in the design of control systems. An invariant set is a region of a dynamic system’s state space that has the following property. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P Trodden
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DPhil in Population Health for entry in October 2027

The DPhil (PhD) in Population Health provides opportunities to study all aspects of population health research, from statistics and epidemiology to health economics, health services research, health policy and promotion, demographic science and ethics. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  PhD Opportunities
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PhD scholarship applications available in over 150 STEM-related research projects

Monash Engineering is an outstanding global centre for engineering research, ranked in the top 40 universities worldwide. We carry out pioneering STEM research that benefits society and changes the world around us. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  Australia PhD Programme
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Efficient and Reliable Numerical Solution of Dynamic Optimization

Dynamic optimization is integral to many aspects of science and engineering, commonly found in trajectory optimization, optimal control (e.g. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr YN Nie
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Understanding the molecular basis for mitophagic selectivity in yeast

A Rehovot-based lab (Hebrew University- Rehovot campus) is seeking outstanding Ph.D. candidates for an exciting molecular biology project involving proteomic and advanced microscopy analyses of autophagic protein degradation networks. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof HA Abeliovich
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Using campus catering to improve the health and well-being of university students

The university of Reading as adopted the Menus of Change principles into it's campus catering. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Mills
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Integrative approach to valorise vegetable waste

The FAO estimates that around one third of all food produced worldwide is not consumed, which represents around 1.3 billion tons per year, and is wasted throughout the whole food chain, from farmers to consumers. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Oruna-Concha, Prof L Methven
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Novel strategies for the diagnosis and treatment of snakebites

Snakebite envenomation (SBE), a high priority neglected tropical disease affects several million people worldwide resulting in as many as 150,000 deaths and around 500,000 permanent disabilities every year. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof SV Vaiyapuri
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Nanotechnologies for cancer: developing new polymer-drug conjugates for the treatment of a range of cancers

Polymer anticancer-drug conjugates are drug delivery systems in which a low molecular weight anticancer agent is covalently conjugated to a water-soluble polymeric carrier. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr F Greco, Prof H Osborn
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Mechanisms of Cancer Stem Cell Survival, Metastasis Formation and Immune Evasion in Cancer

Recent research suggests that cancer cells within a tumour represent a highly heterogeneous cell population. In particular many tumours contain small percentage of cells that share several characteristics with stem cells. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof D Widera
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Investigation of the critical roles of platelets at the interface between thrombosis and inflammation in order to develop improved therapeutic strategies for the treatment and/or prevention of cardiovascular/inflammatory diseases

Platelets (small circulating blood cells) are involved in blood clotting to prevent excessive bleeding, however, their inappropriate activation under pathological conditions leads to thrombosis resulting in major cardiovascular diseases such as heart attack and stroke. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof SV Vaiyapuri
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Developing novel formulations and materials for transmucosal drug delivery

Mucosal routes of drug administration offer numerous advantages including ease of application, non-invasive nature and sometimes possibility of targeting particular organs. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof V Khutoryanskiy
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