The Faculty of Pharmacy at Universitas Hasanuddin, Indonesia, is inviting applications for one Master’s and one PhD position under the prestigious Kemitraan Negara Berkembang (KNB) Scholarship Program for 2026. The research focus areas include nanomedicine-based targeted drug delivery, biofilm-associated infections, infected wound healing, melanoma therapy, and oral cancer nanotherapeutics. This opportunity is ideal for students interested in translational nanomedicine and advanced pharmaceutica...

Two major research funding opportunities are available for African universities and research institutions, announced by Professor Dahiru Murtada Abubakar of Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Nigeria. The first, the Seed Grant for New African Principal Investigators (SG-NAPI), offers up to US$67,700 to early-career PhD holders (within 5 years post-PhD, age 40 or below) based at African institutions. Eligible research fields include agriculture, engineering, information and communication tec...

The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), in partnership with the British Council, is offering five fully funded scholarships for women from Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam to pursue a one-year, full-time master's degree in the UK. This initiative, part of the British Council Women in STEM scholarship programme, aims to support women in science, technology, engineering, and medicine (STEM) by removing financial barriers and promoting gender diversity ...

The University of Auckland is offering a fully funded PhD scholarship in Neurological Chemical Biology, focusing on the project “Deconvoluting novel pericyte neuroinflammation targets from unbiased covalent fragment screens.” This research aims to characterise covalent fragment drug action using genetic and pharmacological approaches, and to identify covalent fragment binding sites to support new in silico drug discovery campaigns. The successful candidate will join a multidisciplinary team at t...

The Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute at Stockholm University, is offering a postdoctoral fellowship in the Group Deng, led by Professor Qiaolin Deng. The research focuses on understanding how maternal metabolic disorders, such as diabetes, influence the future cardiometabolic health of offspring. The successful candidate will investigate early-life programming of metabolism using both mouse models and longitudinal human cohorts. The project integrates advanced techn...

The University of Padua, a leading institution in Italy, has announced a significant investment in doctoral education for the 42nd PhD cycle. The university is offering 255 fully funded PhD scholarships, with a total allocation exceeding €16.5 million, including contributions from both the Ministry and the university's own budget. This initiative ensures continuity in PhD enrolments and provides substantial support for doctoral candidates in fields such as biostatistics, epidemiology, public hea...

The Cancer Research UK Manchester Centre is offering a fully funded PhD scholarship as part of the Black Leaders in Cancer initiative. This non-clinical PhD project focuses on investigating the influence of the aged microbiome on the immune response to cancer, aiming to support the next generation of leaders in cancer research. The program is based at the Division of Cancer Sciences, The University of Manchester, and is supervised by a team of leading researchers including Dr Jamie Honeychurch, ...

This PhD opportunity at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, within the MuSkLE Graduate School, focuses on skeletal muscle research, specifically exertional heat stroke, ion channel dysfunction, and advanced techniques such as calcium imaging, physiology, histology, and multi-scale muscle biology. The project is supervised by Sylvie Bidault-Ducreux (CarMeN lab, IRIS team) and Julien Fauré (Grenoble Institut Neurosciences), offering an interdisciplinary environment at the interface of cell biology,...

The UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems at University College Dublin is offering a full-time PhD Scholarship in Global Health, commencing in September 2026. This opportunity is ideal for motivated researchers interested in addressing complex global health challenges and contributing to policy-relevant research. The PhD programme focuses on investigating meaningful community engagement within health systems worldwide and identifying strategies to enhance engagement and improve hea...