FMI International PhD Program Fall Call 2026 Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Switzerland

PhD opportunity in pathological protein assembly in neurodegenerative diseases at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom . The project is centered on the molecular pathology of neurodegeneration, with a focus on amyloid filament formation by disease-associated proteins such as TDP-43 , annexin A11 , and TAF15 . Two PhD project directions are described. One aims to reproduce pathological protein filament structures in vitro using protein biochemist...

Funded PhD project at the University of Cambridge , Department of Chemistry, in the Mateo Sanchez Lab . The project sits at the interface of chemistry, cell biology, neuroscience, protein engineering, synthetic biology , and molecular biotechnology. The research will focus on developing new molecular tools using directed evolution , protein design , and novel selection/screening strategies to create new protein chimeras. Depending on the candidate’s interests and project progress, the work may i...

PhD position in the EU Doctoral Network PANDORA at the Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tübingen, Germany . The project focuses on age-related macular degeneration (AMD) , with emphasis on factor H-related proteins (FHRs) , extracellular matrix (ECM) stability, endothelial cell homeostasis, choroidal endothelial cells, retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells, complement biology, retinal degeneration, and translational biomedical research. The successful candidate will build recomb...

PhD opportunity in Protein Aggregates and Neurodegeneration at the Medical Research Council (Cambridge), Laboratory of Molecular Biology, with Dr H McMahon. This project explores how protein aggregates accumulate, become toxic to brain cells, and spread in neurodegenerative disease. Two related PhD projects are available in the McMahon group. One focuses on aggregate uptake mechanisms , including Aggregation-Dependent Endocytosis, receptor identification, aggregate size effects, and ways to prev...

EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for a project on multiplexed single-cell RNA-seq–based antibody discovery in the Lab of Biomedical Microfluidics (LBMM) . The project focuses on using transcriptomic datasets to discover new therapeutic antibodies. The lab combines a tech-development environment on the EPFL campus with a translational lab at the AGORA cancer research center, with access to patient material and collaborations across Europe and...