biological science PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

Flexible Electrochemical Multi sensors For online Water Quality Monitoring

Solid-state electrochemical sensor technologies with IoT systems have significant importance in many fields such as medical, biological, agricultural, and environmental pollution monitoring systems. Read more

Supervisor: Dr LM Manjakkal

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

Queensland University of Technology Mathematical Sciences School

New parameter inference for stochastic models of tissue growth

My research group is recruiting a PhD student who will work on a project to produce and apply new computational methods for parameter estimation with a focus on discrete models that describe tissue growth experiments. Read more

Supervisor: Prof M J Simpson

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

MSc by Research: Understanding the beginning of life: the role of non- canonical ubiquitylation in early embryonic development

Supervisor: Dr V De Cesare

Ubiquitin is a small, yet influential, protein that is attached to other substrates to control their stability or activity in a process called ubiquitylation. Read more

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

MSc by Research: Understanding temperature-dependent virulence regulation in bacterial pathogens

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

Bacterial pathogens respond rapidly to environmental change, in ways that can influence their growth, virulence, antimicrobial resistance and, therefore, infection outcomes. Read more

Supervisor: Dr D Neill

MSc by Research: Non-canonical functions of SRSF protein kinase (SRPK) in pluripotent stem cells

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

The overarching goal of our research is to identify and characterise the protein kinase signalling pathways that control stem cell pluripotency and differentiation and determine how protein kinase signalling is disrupted to cause human developmental disorders. Read more

Supervisor: Dr G Findlay

MSc by Research: Protein secretion landscapes in human immune cells

Supervisors: Dr L Miller, Dr A Howden

Roughly one third of the human genome encodes secretory and membrane proteins. Following synthesis in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), these proteins are captured into transport vesicles for delivery within the cell. Read more

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

University of York York Biomedical Research Institute

Understanding interactions of proteins with polymer-coated nanoparticles

Introduction. Polymer-coated nanoparticles are promising drug delivery vehicles. Multiple functionalities can be embedded into the nanoparticle structure to enable uptake of the drug-like molecules, their targeted delivery and controlled release. Read more

Supervisors: Prof V Chechik, Prof D Ungar

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

University of York York Biomedical Research Institute

ChemGlycoSEPSI: chemical glycobiology for the study and exploitation of Pseudaminic acid sugars in infectious diseases

Pseudaminic acid (Pse) is a rare non-mammalian sialic acid-like sugar present on the surface of a number of bacteria including Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter… Read more

Supervisors: Dr M A Fascione, Prof G Thomas

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

King’s College London Department of Physics

Preparation of InP Quantum Dots

Applications are invited for a funded studentship to work on the synthesis and analysis of luminescent InP-based quantum dots using colloidal/air-sensitive inorganic chemistry. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Green

1 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Development of carbohydrate-functionalised materials for detection and prevention of medical device-associated infections

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

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a growing problem in the 21st century, causing longer and more serious infections, and resulting in poor outcomes for vulnerable patients. . Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Wylie

Investigation of novel protease-antiprotease imbalances associated with cystic fibrosis and the effect of CFTR correction.

Supervisor: Prof L Martin

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a progressive life-limiting airways disease that affects over 162,000 people worldwide. Read more

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

Selective targeting of furin for the treatment of fibrotic lung disease.

Supervisor: Prof L Martin

Furin, a proprotein convertase has been established as a therapeutic target across several disease areas to include chronic airways diseases and infectious disease, such as COVID-19 (reviewed in our recent publication, Douglas et al, 2023). Read more

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

Characterising biofilm-forming microbes in endotracheal tubes to direct a new strategy for preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia in critically ill adults

Supervisors: Dr L Sherrard, Dr M Wylie

Endotracheal tubes (ETTs) are employed for invasive mechanical ventilation of critically ill patients with acute respiratory failure. Read more

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

Self-Navigating Nanocarriers for Intracellular Protein Delivery

Supervisor: Dr W Al-Jamal

Protein-based therapeutics have shown remarkable success in modulating extracellular targets; however, effective intracellular delivery remains a key challenge in biotherapeutics. Read more

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