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MRC NW-DMS DLA programme: Cardiac Ion Channels and Immune Signalling in Ischaemic Heart Disease: New Opportunities for Cardioprotection and Arrhythmia Prevention

Cardiovascular disease remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide and is frequently associated with myocardial ischaemia (reduced blood flow to the heart) and life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Rainbow, Prof N Liptrott
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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MRC NW-DMS DLA programme: Enhancing Cancer Immunotherapy While Protecting the Heart: The Dual Function of SGLT2 Inhibitors

Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have revolutionised cancer treatment by harnessing the body's immune system to attack tumours. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr P Sharma, Prof A Olsson-Brown, Prof D Naisbitt
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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MRC NW-DMS DLA programme: From variant to phenotype: decoding calmodulin dysfunction in cardiac arrhythmia

How can a change in a single protein disrupt the electrical rhythm of the heart and cause life-threatening arrhythmia?. Calmodulin (CaM) is a highly conserved calcium sensing protein that controls key ion channels responsible for cardiac electrical activity and calcium homeostasis. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr N Helassa, Dr R Rainbow
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Studentship in Hearing Research

We are now looking for one full-time PhD student to join Dr Jason Tzu-Hsien Lien at HKU in September 2027. Your study will be fully funded alongside a monthly stipend of 19,135 or 28,700 HKD. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Lien
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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MRC NW-DMS DLA programme: How pollution drives brain ageing: understanding its contribution to neurodegenerative pathologies

Diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis are devastating conditions that cause our brain cells to progressively decay. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr N Sanchez-Soriano, Prof H Ashe, Prof S Cruickshank
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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AWE-funded PhD project on ultrafast laser fabricated sensing technologies

  Research Group: Photonic Instrumentation Group (phi.eps.hw.ac.uk)
Ultrashort laser pulses can be used to directly write structural modifications inside dielectric materials. This modification can manifest itself in a variety of ways, one example of which can be a localised increase in the refractive index. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof R Thomson, Dr CR Ross
 1 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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MRC NW-DMS DLA programme: State-selective dependence on SMOC-regulated extracellular signalling in hepatocellular carcinoma

How do liver tumours become dependent on their extracellular environment?. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary liver cancer and a leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr MM Merino, Prof D Palmer
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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MRC NW-DMS DLA programme: Closing the loop: an AI guided approach to prioritise competence experimentation of emerging arbovirus risk

Mosquitoes and the viruses they carry are on the move. Climate change, land use change and global trade are expanding the ranges of both, bringing vectors and viruses into contact in places that have never had to consider them before. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Blagrove, Dr M Wardeh, Dr J Pilgrim
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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NERC GW4+ Tracing the nature of slab input in magmas from the Kermadec Arc and Taupo Volcanic Zone

Subduction zones are key geological settings that play a major role in controlling geochemical transfers between the crust, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and Earth’s mantle. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof M Millet, Prof J Lissenberg, Dr G Cooper, Dr I Parkinson, Dr SR Rooyakkers, Dr S Barker, Dr KF Faure
 7 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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MRC NW-DMS DLA programme: Restoring Anti Tumour Immunity by Disrupting Myeloid Driven Immunosuppressive Pathways in Cholangiocarcinoma

Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is an aggressive cancer of the bile ducts with a survival rate below 10% over five years. This project focuses on understanding why immune checkpoint blockade therapies, such as durvalumab, have limited success in treating CCA. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr L Randle, Prof N Liptrott, Mr HM Malik
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Unravelling Earth’s Magnetic Reversals

Earth’s core has generated a magnetic field for billions of years; however, the nature of that field has varied considerably through time for reasons that are still not fully understood. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof J Mound, Prof C Davies
 12 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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MRC NW-DMS DLA programme: Endosomal Trafficking of Dopamine Receptors: Mechanisms, Health, and Disease

Summary. Dysregulation of dopamine receptor trafficking and expression is increasingly recognised as a fundamental contributor to major neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders, including Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia, addiction and ADHD. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr K McMillan, Prof M Clague, Prof P McCormick
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Geometric deep learning with application to molecular design and discovery

The School of Engineering Mathematics invites applications for a PhD at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, mathematics, and molecular science. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr MG Golbabaee
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Predictive multiscale materials discovery by physics-based modelling and data-driven approaches

Additive manufacturing (AM) is a promising, emerging materials processing method used for fabricating complex 3D geometries in various engineering applications. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Panwisawas
 27 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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MRC NW-DMS DLA programme: Antibiotic taxis during host infection and antibiotic treatment

Background. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a globally significant “priority” bacterial pathogen (WHO) that causes biofilm-associated, antibiotic-resistant infections. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Wheeler, Dr S.K. Khandaker, Dr RT Tank
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)