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Finance

Within the Department of Finance, you'll join a vibrant research community shaping the future of financial systems. Our faculty's expertise spans four key areas. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  Business Research Programme
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Rewiring the Transcriptional Machinery of Myeloid Blood Cancer: Therapeutic Targeting of Transcription Factors, Co-activators and Co-repressors

We are seeking an outstanding and highly motivated student to join our group for a prestigious, fully funded Cancer Research UK PhD studentship. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof T Somervaille
 6 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Reconstruction of Tumour Evolution and Metastatic Spread in Kidney Cancer

TRACERx Renal 300 (Tx300) and PEACE (Posthumous Evaluation of Advanced Cancer Environment) Renal programme together span the full arc of clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) disease, from surgical resection of primary tumours through to the metastatic landscape captured postmortem. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Turajlić
 6 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Economics & Public Policy

The Department of Economics and Public Policy offer a stimulating environment for doctoral research, addressing some of the most pressing economic and policy challenges of current time. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  Business Research Programme
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From Stem Cells to Cancer Immunotherapy: Engineering Human Blood and Immune-Cell Development

Cell-based immunotherapies are transforming the treatment of cancer. CAR-T cells have produced remarkable clinical responses in patients with leukaemia, lymphoma and multiple myeloma and are now increasingly entering the clinic for the treatment of solid tumours, with encouraging advances across several cancer types. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof G Lacaud
 6 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Defining regulators of early-stage PDAC tumour development

Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a dismal disease with limited treatment options. Despite being the 11th most frequent occurring cancer, PDAC is currently the 4th leading cause of cancer-related deaths and is projected to be the 2nd leading cause by 2030. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Jorgensen
 6 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Aged immune failure and reversal

Immune decline is one of the defining problems of an ageing population. Elderly people have reduced responses to vaccines, failure of tumour surveillance and chronic inflammation, defined as low-grade immune activation (inflammaging). Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Virós, Dr JD Worboys
 6 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Analytics & Operations

Operations Management at Imperial focuses on the systems, processes, and decisions that power modern organisations. Doctoral students join a vibrant, multidisciplinary research community, working alongside experts from Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, and other leading departments. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  Business Research Programme
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Predicting Cell State from Chromatin Architecture to Understand Cancer Initiation and Progression

Chromatin structure regulates gene expression and underlies cell identity. Mutations in chromatin regulators are frequently observed in cancer, leading to alterations in chromatin structure, genomic interactions, and modifications. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Sherrard
 6 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Investigating molecular drivers of enhancer rewiring in blood cancers

This is a fully funded 3-year PhD studentship to join the group of Dr Tianyi Zhang in the Department of Cancer and Genomics Sciences to investigate molecular mechanisms of genome regulation in multiple myeloma. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr TZ Zhang, Dr G Pratt, Dr S Dimeloe
 6 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Mapping ceramides in atherosclerotic plaques to understand the role of lipids in cardiovascular disease

This studentship aims to uncover the mechanistic basis of why fats, and in particular a subset of fats called ceramides, are independent risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) by studying the lipid composition of atherosclerotic plaques - the deposits of fat, cholesterol and dead cells that accumulate in arteries and lead to CVD and heart attacks. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof J.L Griffin, Dr M J Macleod
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Bystander-Induced Resistance Evolution Against Antimicrobials from Non-antibiotic Co-stressors

About the Project. This project investigates how everyday non-antibiotic substances, including medicines, environmental toxins such as mycotoxins, and nicotine, may contribute to the development of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr L Uzairue
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Model Theory of ordered algebraic structures

The aim in this project is to prove decidability of various fragments of the ring of functions of class C^k from the euclidean space to the real line, that are definable in the real field. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Tressl, Dr O Sanchez
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Development of Digital Failure Investigation Tools for Titanium Alloys

This project is part of cohort 4 of the EPSRC CDT in Developing National Capability for Materials 4.0, with the Henry Royce Institute. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Davis, Prof J Fonseca -, Dr E Saunders
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Hierarchical Failure Analysis and Digital Twin Modelling of Next-Gen Hydrogel Coatings

This project is part of cohort 4 of the EPSRC CDT in Developing National Capability for Materials 4.0, with the Henry Royce Institute. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S F Yang, Dr M Bai, Dr J Wu
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)