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PhD Studentship: Empowering Green Seaweeds as Beneficial Health Products
Introduction: Demand for natural weight loss remedies is exceptionally high. Central Pharma Biotechnica (Biotechnica) mass process brown seaweeds to produce plant biostimulants and…
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PhD Studentship: One Cell at a Time: Uncovering Enhancer Control of Blood and Cardiovascular Fate Using Single-cell Multi-omics
The cardiovascular system - comprising the heart, blood and blood vessels - is the first functional organ system to form during vertebrate development. Cardiac progenitor cells generate the…
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PhD Studentship: A Hostile Niche: How Mutant Blood Stem Cells Damage Their Healthy Neighbours
As people age, some blood stem cells acquire mutations that give them a growth advantage over their normal counterparts. Our recent work suggests the mutant cells don't just outgrow their…
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PhD Studentship: Cracking the Chain of Command in Multidrug Efflux Evolution
Are you passionate about understanding antibiotic resistance at the molecular level? Join Professor Mark Webber and Dr Gemma Langridge at the Quadram Institute Bioscience for a cutting-edge…
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PhD Studentship: Small RNA, Big Impact: The role of SNORD116 in the metabolic development of adipocytes
Investigating the Molecular Basis of Adipocyte Metabolic Development Understanding how fat cells (adipocytes) develop is fundamental to population-level metabolic health. This project…
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PhD Studentship: Unlocking healthy ageing: harnessing proteostasis pathways to promote extracellular matrix function
Background Ageing causes increased frailty and higher rates of disease. As societies age, this presents an enormous public health challenge, making understanding the ageing process…
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PhD Studentship: Engineering Fitness in Disease-Resistant Crops
Engineering crop disease resistance to overcome the growth-defence trade-off Developing crops that are both productive and resillient is one of the major challenges facing agriculture.…
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PhD Studentship: How does NRP2 keep blood vessels sealed and calm under stress?
Blood vessels are lined by endothelial cells, which form a living barrier between blood and tissues. These cells must stay tightly connected, sense blood flow, respond to nutrients and…
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PhD Studentship: Functional Genomics of Sexually Antagonistic Selection
Why do harmful genes persist in populations instead of being removed by natural selection? One answer lies in sexual antagonism: when a genetic variant benefits males but harms females, or…
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PhD Studentship: Running on Empty: Metabolic Ageing in Blood Stem Cells
Every blood cell in your body, from oxygen-carrying red cells to virus-fighting white cells, begins life in a rare population of blood stem cells that must stay active for an entire…
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PhD Studentship: The Cardiac Positioning System – How Do Heart Progenitors Find Their Way?
Primary Supervisor - Professor Andrea Munsterberg The first organ to develop in vertebrate embryos is the heart, when two streams of cardiac progenitor cells undertake an epic migration…
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PhD Studentship: Cracking the carbohydrate code: how carbohydrate-binding modules control starch digestion
Why this matters: Starch is the principal source of dietary glucose, and the rate at which it is digested has major consequences for metabolic health. Food science still lacks the…
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PhD Studentship: Watching a fungus fight back: mapping antimicrobial resistance in 3-D as it happens
Primary Supervisor - Dr Trey Koev The chemicals that protect our crops and the drugs that treat fungal infections come from the same family. Fungi in the field meet them first — and are…
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DPhil Studentships in Psychiatry
DPhil Studentships available to start in October 2027 The Department is pleased to invite applications to conduct research towards a doctoral degree at the University. Fully-funded…
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PhD Studentship: Incentives and Barriers: Patent Law in the Age of the 3Rs
Biological research stands at a juncture: technologies exist and are constantly emerging that could reduce and even replace the use of animal testing. Yet patent law, which is designed to…
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PhD Studentship: Dickson Poon School of Law School Studentship
Value of the award: This is a fully funded studentship that includes 3 years of fees + a maintenance stipend at the UKRI level (2026-2027 rate is £23,805) for three years with small, annual…
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PhD Studentship project: Rethinking Corporate Governance in Modern Capital Markets: Law, Regulation and Practice
Corporate governance and capital markets are being reshaped by changes in ownership structures, the growth of institutional and passive investment, the expansion of private markets,…
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PhD Studentship: MSc Clinical and Therapeutic Neuroscience Studentships
MSc Clinical and Therapeutic Neuroscience Studentships available to start in October 2027 We are pleased to invite applications for the MSc Clinical and Therapeutic Neuroscience Course…
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PhD Studentship: Data-driven Control Engineering for Large-scale Uncertain Systems
Research Studentship in Control Theory, Optimization and Learning 3.5-year D.Phil. studentship Project: Data-driven control engineering for large-scale uncertain systems. Supervisors: Prof…
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PhD Studentship in Geotechnical Engineering
3.5-year D.Phil. studentship Project: Nature-based and biomimetic foundation systems Supervisors: Professor Jonathan Knappett and Professor Chris Martin The root systems of trees provide…