Immunology (rna) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 20 Immunology (rna) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Investigating the regulation of neutrophil gene expression by intracellular signalling and small non-coding RNAs

University of Liverpool Institute of Life Course and Medical Sciences

Immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMID) such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) affect millions of people worldwide and cause debilitating and disabling musculoskeletal disease. Read more

Supervisors: Dr HL Wright, Prof MJ Peffers

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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(BRC) Nailfold capillary imaging in the idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (Non-Clinical)

The University of Manchester Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

The idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIMs) are rare conditions characterised by distinct clinical subtypes and varied multisystem involvement. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Murray, Dr H Chinoy, Dr J Lamb

13 May 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Cancer Biology: The role of Wnt signaling in glioblastoma therapeutic resistance

University of Leeds Faculty of Medicine and Health

Glioblastoma is a deadly brain tumour treated with surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy with patient survival of 6-15 months. Read more

Supervisors: Dr G Mavria, Dr S Bell, Dr C Toomes

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Manipulation of neuroimmune responses and behaviour by infectious agents

University of Leeds Faculty of Biological Sciences

This project is available exclusively to self-funded students who wish to commence study for a PhD in the academic year 2023/24. The project focuses on how infectious agents modify the individuals that they infect and how neuroimmune responses to infection moderate behaviour changes in warm-blooded animals and humans. Read more

Supervisors: Dr G Mcconkey, Dr S Clapcote

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Mapping CD4+ T cell fate decisions and functional coordination within tissues during infection

The University of Manchester Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

CD4+ T cells are essential components of the immune system, orchestrating protection against infection. Read more

Supervisors: Dr K Couper, Prof DD Dyer

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Understanding how to target the T cell compartment within related brain tumours

The University of Manchester Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

T cell-based immunotherapy has revolutionised the treatment of many different types of cancer. However, to date, these treatments have not been successful or widely used for the treatment of brain tumours. Read more

Supervisors: Dr K Couper, Prof D Brough, Dr OP Pathmanaban

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Deciphering the cell death-dependent fibrotic niche following lung injury

University of Edinburgh College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine

Research Group: Centre for Inflammation Research

Background. Lung disease causes 1 in 5 deaths globally with limited treatment advances for many acute and chronic respiratory conditions. Read more

Supervisors: Dr C Lucas, Dr DD Dorward, Dr P Ramachandran

13 May 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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NIHR Leeds BRC: Unravelling the pre-clinical immunology of the IL-23/1L-17 axis in axial inflammation in psoriatic arthritis towards optimal disease prevention

University of Leeds Faculty of Medicine and Health

Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and ankylosing spondylitis (AS) are key disorders within the seronegative spondylarthropathy (SpA) that was first described in… Read more

Supervisors: Prof D McGonagle, Dr H Marzo-Ortego, Dr T Macleod

26 May 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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NIHR Leeds BRC: The role of target organs in initiation of autoimmunity in systemic lupus erythematosus

University of Leeds Faculty of Medicine and Health

Autoimmune diseases such as SLE have traditionally been understood to result from aberrant haematopoietic adaptive immune system that targets normal tissues such as the skin and joints. Read more

Supervisor: Dr E Vital

26 May 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Investigating how tumour associated macrophages affect cancer metastasis and response to therapies

University of Liverpool Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology

Solid tumours are generally highly infiltrated by macrophages. Macrophages are heterogeneous and different populations with different and sometimes even opposite functions co-exist in tumours affecting cancer progression. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Mieglo, Prof M Schmid

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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MSc by Research: Investigating the tumor suppressor functions of chromatin remodelling

University of Dundee School of Life Sciences

One of the unanticipated outcomes of population based genome sequencing has been the finding that genes involved in the regulation of many genes are mutated at high frequency in tissue specific cancers. Read more

Supervisor: Prof T A Owen-hughes

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Systems immunology and multi-omics approaches to understand protective immunity to human malaria

University of Queensland Institute for Molecular Bioscience

This PhD project aims to develop and apply computational approaches that integrate systems biology and molecular immunology to understand host-pathogen immunity and predict immune control of malaria. Read more

Supervisor: Prof D Doolan

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Dysfunctional antifungal potency of the respiratory mucosa in COPD

The University of Manchester Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

Inhalation of Aspergillus fumigatus spores cause >3,000,000 chronic and >200,000 invasive diseases annually worldwide. Invasive aspergillosis carries a 50% mortality rate overall, but mortality rate approaches 100% if diagnosis is delayed or missed and it is >75% in certain cohorts of patients, such as COPD sufferers. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Bertuzzi, Dr J.H Herbert, Dr S Gago

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Molecular mechanisms underlying the anti-atherogenic actions of natural products

Cardiff University Cardiff School of Biosciences

Atherosclerosis, the underlying cause of myocardial infarction, stroke and peripheral vascular disease, is responsible for most deaths in the western world with mortality increasing at a marked rate in developing. Read more

Supervisors: Dr D Ramji, Dr T Hughes

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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PhD studentship studying the Cancer Microenvironment and Immunotherapy

King’s College London Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine

We wish to recruit motivated PhD research students to join the translational cancer / lymphoma immunology group led by Dr Alan G. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A G Ramsay

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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We have 20 Immunology (rna) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Immunology (rna) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 20 Immunology (rna) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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