Biochemistry PhD Projects, Programs & Scholarships

Dr T Hoefken

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Sudden unexpected cardiac death is responsible for about half of all heart disease deaths. It is an unexpected death caused by a change in heart rhythm.

Central Nervous system Gene therapy to treat obesity Bardet-Biedl Syndrome (BBS). Analysis of the BBS brain development

Dr V Hernandez

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a debilitating, often life-limiting heritable multisystem disorder caused by dysfunction of non-motile cilia (ciliopathy).

Disrupting the regulatory mechanisms that allow hospital acquired infections to resist antibiotic therapy.

Dr R McCarthy

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

The discovery of penicillin over 90 years ago and its subsequent uptake by healthcare systems around the world revolutionised global health and wellbeing.

Egr2 and 3 mediated T cell tolerance in cancer and their impact in immune checkpoint therapy

Dr S Li

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Tumour infiltrated lymphocytes (TILs) contain tumour reactive T cells and have been used as adoptive cell transfer therapy in patients which can mediate cancer regression.

Nanoparticles in drug delivery

Dr G Stenbeck, Dr U Kishore

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Nanoparticles (NPs) are materials with overall dimensions in the nano scale range (5nm-100nm). Due to their unique physicochemical properties, they have found a wide range of applications and are currently explored as drug and gene delivery vehicles.

Seeking critical branch points in bacterial evolution with comparative genomics

Prof N Saunders, Mr A Khan

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

This is a bioinformatics and comparative genomics-focussed project, seeking to identify the basis of speciation and sub-speciation of bacterial species accounting for the development of individual and independent lineages.

Telomere length elongation following treatment with chemotherapeutic drugs. Aim: To investigate the mechanisms which leads to telomere length elongation after treatment with tricostatin A and azacytidine.

Dr T Roberts

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Telomeres are specialised structures, which are present at the ends of chromosomes and serve to protect the chromosome from degradation during cell division.

The impact of mixed radiation and chemicals exposure on neuronal cytotoxicity, ageing and transcription

Brunel University London
Health Sciences

Dr R Anderson

Application Deadline: 6 January 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

This project has funding attached for UK and EU students, though the amount may depend on your nationality. Non-EU students may still be able to apply for the project provided they can find separate funding. You should check the project and department details for more information.

A 3-year funded PhD studentship is available in the College of Health and Life Sciences at Brunel University London. Project description.

Markers of Expertise in Sport and Physical Activity: Triangulated Approaches

Brunel University London
Sport, Health and Exercise Science

Dr D Broadbent, Dr D Bishop, Dr A Cocks, Dr A Nowicky

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

The aim of this project is to adopt a mixed methods approach to determine the various factors – innate, learnt, and environmental – that ultimately contribute to skill acquisition and/or expertise within a specified domain.

Structural characterisation of MDM2 RING domain and its binding partners

Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute
Cell Biology of Cancer

Dr D Huang

Application Deadline: 3 January 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

This project has funding attached, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Post-translational modification by ubiquitin (Ub) regulates many cellular processes. Deregulation of ubiquitination is often associated with disease, including cancer.