tumour PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 117 tumour PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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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Haematology: Oncogenic mechanisms causing malignant transformation of B cells and plasma cells

University of Leeds Faculty of Medicine and Health

Cancers of B cells and plasma cells, lymphomas and multiple myeloma, can be very aggressive, and often the cancer rapidly reoccurs after standard therapy. Read more

Supervisor: Prof U Klein

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

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Postgraduate Research Opportunities at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry

Queen Mary University of London

To deliver our research strategy of ‘Better Health for All' and our aspiration to train the research leaders of the future, the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry (top 10% faculties of medicine in the world, QS2022) has opened opportunities for self-funded PhD students in multiple areas of biomedical and translational research across six internationally recognised Research Institutes. Read more

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Multilevel selection on transposition rates in cancer

University of Reading Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Cancer is an evolutionary process. Cells in a tumour vary due to mutation, and so over many generations they adapt in response to both intrinsic selective pressures (such as anoxia) and extrinsic selective pressures (such as chemotherapy). Read more

Supervisor: Dr L J Johnson

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

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Vascularising human mini-brains in a dish

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust BRC Translational Research (Non-Clinical) PhD Studentships

Blood vessels play a pivotal role in brain development and function. They promote tissue growth and survival by supplying nutrients and oxygen to surrounding tissues, signals to progenitor populations, as well as guiding neuronal migration. Read more

Supervisors: Dr PA Alexandre, Prof D Long

15 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Design and synthesis of next-generation antibody drug conjugates to target homologous recombination deficient cancers

University of Strathclyde Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry

Background. Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) offer a powerful strategy for the cell-selective delivery of therapeutics, while minimizing off-target interactions associated with the drug payload. Read more

Supervisors: Prof G Burley, Dr Z Rattray

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

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Targeting dormant cancer cells in myeloma

University of Sheffield School of Medicine and Population Health

Multiple myeloma is the second most common blood cancer and remains essentially incurable. Chemotherapy is effective at reducing tumour and extends survival, but it never fully eradicates disease, so patients face inevitable relapse. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Green, Prof S El-Khamisy

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

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Genomics of malignant pleural mesothelioma

University of Leicester Department of Genetics and Genome Biology

Malignant pleural mesothelioma is a rare, incurable cancer that carries a dismal prognosis. Its incidence is increasing globally despite its primary cause, asbestos exposure, having been known for over 50 years. Read more

Supervisor: Prof E Hollox

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

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Investigating how dormant senescent cells can drive drug-resistance following chemotherapy

University of Dundee School of Medicine

Most anti-cancer chemotherapeutics work by inducing DNA damage and arresting the cell cycle in either G1 or G2 phase. A frequent outcome of this arrest is that cells exit the cell cycle into a state known as senescence. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Saurin, Dr T Ly

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Probing Death Decisions from Morphogen Gradient Fields

University of Liverpool Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine

Morphogen gradient scaling is one of the hottest fields in developmental biology at the moment. Scaling is fundamental, explaining how the machinery that controls pattern formation in development (the morphogens) can adapt, so that organs of different sizes show morphological structures which are proportioned. Read more

Supervisor: Dr MM Merino

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

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Preventing Ovarian Cancer, Colorectal Cancer, and Related Metastases

Medical University of Vienna Institute for Pathophysiologie and Allergy

The doctoral candidate (DC) will perform basic molecular biology research on in vitro and in vivo cancer models at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. Read more

Supervisors: Dr MSch Schepelmann, Prof E K Kallay

29 April 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Development of a highly innovative label-free & deep-learning based analysis method: Histoplasmonic Tissue Cytometry

Medical University of Vienna Institute for Pathophysiologie and Allergy

The doctoral candidate (DC) will perform applied research in bioinformatics, i.e., the extraction of numerical values from biological samples, by engaging deep learning technologies to microscopic images with the aim to develop a novel solution for future clinical diagnostics of cancer. Read more

Supervisors: Dr RE Ecker, Dr IE Ellinger

29 April 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Investigating local invasion in primary and secondary brain tumours

University of Liverpool Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine

Brain tumours are highly invasive and carry a poor prognosis. Secondary brain tumours or brain metastases (BM) are the most common tumours found in the brain affecting up to one third of patients with solid organ cancer. Read more

Supervisor: Dr RZ Zakaria

2 December 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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