Neurology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Supervisors: Dr E Stergiakouli, Dr L Howe, Dr AH Havdhal

Rationale. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a chronic neurodevelopmental condition, characterised by persistent difficulties in the areas of attention span/impulse control. Read more

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

Investigating causal effects of neurodevelopmental and mental health problems in childhood on adult physical health

Supervisors: Dr E Stergiakouli, Dr L Howe, Dr RB Blakey, Ms CD Dardani

Rationale. Neurodevelopmental and mental health problems in childhood have been linked to adverse physical health outcomes in both childhood and adult life. Read more

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

Prenatal and pre-conception effects on neurodevelopmental disorders.

Supervisors: Dr L Zuccolo, Dr G Sharp, Dr D Caramaschi, Prof A Thapar

Rationale. There is growing concern that paternal exposures before conception have been greatly neglected. Studying how these impact on future generations’ health could open new avenues for prevention-prospective fathers are not generally advised to change their behaviour. Read more

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

Understanding psychiatric outcomes in children born with cleft lip and/or palate using genetics

Supervisors: Dr E Stergiakouli, Dr S Lewis, Prof M J Owen, Dr M van den Bree

Rationale. Cleft of the lip and/or palate is a common birth defect worldwide and occurs at a rate of one in 650 live births in the UK. Read more

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

King’s College London Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine

Chromatin remodelling complexes in human brain development

Chromatin regulators are a group of proteins that control the way the rest of the genome is opened up and “read” by the cellular machinery, with fundamental roles in development and disease. Read more

Supervisors: Dr CD Dias, Dr JA Atherton

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

Max Planck School of Cognition

PhD Studentship Opportunities in the overall Field of Cognition Research

The Max Planck School of Cognition (MPS-Cog) is a joint graduate program of the Max Planck Society and leading German Universities together with Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Helmholtz Association, and University College London, and is additionally funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Read more

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) Germany PhD Programme

The University of Manchester Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

Communication and co-speech gestures in Parkinson’s disease

Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative condition affecting around 1 in 500 people, with significant impact on movements and quality of life. Read more

Supervisors: Dr E Poliakoff, Dr P Conroy

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

The University of Manchester Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

Full exploitation of amyloid PET-MR data for dementia research

Simultaneous PET-MR data acquisition using amyloid radiotracers has utility for future clinical studies such as the development of novel therapeutic interventions for dementia. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Asselin, Dr J Matthews, Dr L Parkes

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

Self-Funded PhD Students Only Australia PhD Programme

Study at Griffith University’s Institute for Glycomics and help fight diseases of global impact

Griffith University

Did you know that more than 17 million people die from infectious diseases and over 9 million people die from cancer every year across the world?. Read more

The use of Drosophila melanogaster to identify novel therapeutic agents for Alzheimer’s disease

Supervisors: Dr M Georgiou, Dr Z Zhu

Since 2003, our understanding of the causes of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) have improved considerably, however, in that time only one new drug treatment has been approved. Read more

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

Cancer Neuroscience: Investigating the impact of non-CNS tumours on neuronal plasticity in the brain

Supervisor: Dr G Sheridan

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, resulting in approximately 18 million new cases and 10 million deaths each year. Read more

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

Epigenomic transcriptomic mechanisms underlying human neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases

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

This project aims to use high throughput sequencing technologies and molecular approaches to understand how RNA epitranscriptomic processes contribute to susceptibility to human disorders of the brain. Read more

Supervisor: Dr HM Knight

Exosome biogenesis and organelle trafficking in neurodegeneration.

Supervisors: Dr A Hume, Dr DS Scott, Dr F Dajas-Bailador

Scientific summary. Intracellular transport pathways are fundamental for cell structure and function. Due to their longevity, complex morphology (long axonal and dendritic extensions) and requirement to maintain synaptic transmission, neurons are heavily dependent upon intracellular transport. Read more

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

Natural toxins and their synthetic analogues as tools to study ion channels and as potential drugs and pesticides

Supervisor: Dr I R Mellor

The project will use a combination of electrophysiological techniques such as voltage-clamp and patch-clamp with molecular biology and protein expression to understand how natural toxins and their synthetic analogues act on ion channels in the nervous system. Read more

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

University of Reading Department of Biomedical Sciences

How do hormones regulate memory?

Deficiencies of thyroid hormone are common throughout the globe. Adult-onset hypothyroidism is prevalent in around 8-10% of the population and is associated with reproductive disorders, anxiety, depression and impairment of memory. Read more

Supervisors: Dr N Vasudevan, Prof P G Knight

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