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Effect of activity in neural circuit development

Neuronal activity is necessary for the establishment of correctly functioning neuronal circuits in development. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Cardona
 8 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Trustworthy Generative AI in Healthcare

For more information and to apply, please visit the institution website. One fully funded PhD studentship, open to UK and international applicants, is available in trustworthy generative AI for healthcare. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr Y Li, Dr DY Du
 30 September 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Structure-function analysis of stress signaling

Our lab studies stress signaling and pioneers strategies that harness such pathways to enhance cellular resilience, a modality generically applicable to improve fitness in diverse diseases, including the age-related neurodegenerative diseases. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Bertolotti
 8 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Making Large Language Models Faster and Greener: Efficient Training and Inference through Sparsity, Pruning and Smart Decoding

Overview of the Research. Large language models are transforming how people interact with software, but they are expensive to train and run. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr RB Babbar
 31 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Funded project GW4 BioMed3 MRC DTP - Artificial intelligence to identify fungal susceptibility in the clinical diagnostic laboratory

Fungal infections have become a major and growing global health crisis, causing an estimated 3.8 million deaths each year—surpassing the toll of diseases like tuberculosis and malaria. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof A Dowsey
 21 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Lysosomal TMEM106B in brain ageing and disease

Our group studies mechanisms of brain health, ageing and disease focusing on the lysosomal protein transmembrane protein 106B (TMEM106B) which forms amyloids in the brain in an age-dependent manner. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Arseni
 8 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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The molecular architecture of neurotransmission

Chemical synapses are cellular connections that define the organization and function of neuronal circuits and, as a result, the fundamental ability of the brain to acquire, process and store information. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Aricescu
 8 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Where do cells go in the human embryo?

The first two weeks of human development transform a single-cell into a complex, bilaminar embryo. During this critical period, cells acquire distinct identies and organise into increasingly complex tissue architectures. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Shahbazi
 8 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Co-Designing Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions (JITAIs) for Sustained Behavioural Change in Cardiac Rehabilitation

  Research Group: Division of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work
Applications are now open for a unique studentship opportunity based in Pakistan. The NIHR funded ACROSS (Affordable Cardiac Rehabilitation. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Blakemore, Prof N Husain, Dr H Hague
 15 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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How the embryo gets its shape

The McDole lab seeks to understand how complex 3D structures in the embryo are sculpted from initially homogenous cell populations. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr K McDole
 8 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Visualizing cellular proteostasis

Each cell relies on thousands of internal biochemical reactions, carried out by around ten thousand different types of proteins. These cellular proteins, collectively known as the proteome, must be synthesized in precise quantities, undergo correct folding, and be accurately localized within the cell. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Fedry
 8 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Protein maturation, quality control, and disease

Cells are amazingly organized entities. Their resident proteins, nucleic acids, and small molecules are assembled into functional modules and segregated among numerous membrane-bound cellular compartments. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Hegde
 8 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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How TB-infected macrophages are cleared

Mycobacterium tuberculosis infects macrophages and can commandeer their machinery to survive intracellularly. Infected macrophages aggregate into granulomas, hallmark immunopathological structures of TB. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Levin Konigsberg, Prof L Ramakrishnan
 8 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Drugging daily clocks in a dish

Many commonly used drugs would benefit from considering daily biological timing but mechanistic understanding of circadian medicine is limited (Cederroth et al). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J O'Neill
 8 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Studying the design principles of biological self-organization

The Surrey lab studies the design principles of biological self-organization, focusing on the cytoskeleton. Their interdisciplinary research merges synthetic biology, biophysics, biochemistry, cell biology and mathematical modelling. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr T Surrey
 22 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)