FindAPhD : Department of Biology Fully Funded UK/EU Studentships at University of York

Excellence in teaching inspired by world class research with impact

Our Department is one of the UK’s most highly ranked biological sciences departments for research and teaching. The Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 has once again placed us in the top 10 of Biological Sciences departments in the UK. We came 1st for the impact of our research. We cover the spectrum of contemporary biological sciences from molecular aspects of cancer to field ecology. Our research efforts aim to tackle three major global challenges:

Fully-Funded PhD Opportunities

We offer a wide range of fully-funded PhD studentships in a number of doctoral training partnerships and networks:

Also available:

Biology PhD Studentship
Industrial CASE studentships

Our Research Projects – Click on a project title to view the full project details:

Biodiversity gains in churchyards as a microcosm for UK biodiversity gains	Details
Fully funded BBSRC CTP with Unilever PhD in Biology : Revealing the roles of the anaerobic skin microbiome in malodour production	Details
Fully Funded PhD in Biology scholarship: Accelerating nature-based solutions in riparian wetlands to address enhanced storm-driven wastewater from agriculture and urban systems	Details
Fully-funded EPSRC/FDBK studentship: Unravelling the rules of therapeutic antibody glycosylation	Details
Fully-funded PhD in Biology EPSRC iCASE with FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies (FDBK): Development of modular chromatography strategies for the straight through purification of biotherapeutic recombinant proteins from E.coli	Details
Self funded MSc by research or PhD in Biology: Chemical warfare in the rhizosphere: understanding the defensive role of plant root exudates against the bacterial pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum	Details
Self funded MSc by Research or PhD in Biology: Delineating neuronal structure and function in the autism spectrum disorder neurofibromatosis type 1	Details
Self funded MSc by research or PhD in Biology: Discovery, evolution and applications in plant natural product biosynthesis	Details
Self funded MSc by research or PhD in Biology: How do biofertilisers impact plant drought tolerance?	Details
Self funded MSc by research or PhD in Biology: Investigating chromosome segregation in thermophilic Archaea	Details
Self funded MSc by Research or PhD in Biology: Ion channel signalling in cancer cells	Details
Self funded MSc by research or PhD in Biology: Membraneless biomelecular condensates, a major regulator of trypanosome parasites differentiation and host adaptation	Details
Self funded MSc by Research or PhD in Biology: The oncogenic mechanism and potential of the emergent retrovirus ALV-K in global poultry	Details
Self funded PhD in Biology: Exploring Novel Protein Families for Sustainable Crop Protection	Details
Self funded PhD in Biology: Novel approaches for valorisation of seaweed biomass	Details
Self funded PhD in Biology: Structure and function of CIZ1	Details
Self-funded PhD in Biology: Engineering Gene Regulatory Networks To Enhance Crop Disease Resistance	Details

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