Fully Funded PhD in Bioengineering for CNS Therapeutic Delivery, Protein Engineering, and Synthetic Biology Nanyang Technological University Singapore in Singapore

Funded PhD opportunity at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore , in the Smith Lab within the School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (CCEB). The project is in Biomedical Engineering and focuses on engineering the blood-brain barrier (BBB) for precision gene and therapeutic delivery . The lab works on next-generation gene delivery technologies, combining protein engineering , synthetic biology , viral vector engineering , extracellular vesicles , engineered secret...

Daniel Yoo, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University, is recruiting fully funded Ph.D. students for his lab for Spring 2027 and Fall 2027 . The research group focuses on bioengineering and synthetic biology , making this a strong fit for students interested in interdisciplinary graduate research at the interface of engineering and biology. Funding is explicitly stated to include stipend support and tuition support for qualified students. Applicants are described as needing to be passionate a...

Imperial College London’s Department of Chemical Engineering is advertising a funded PhD project in engineering biology for food and medicines . The project is led by Prof Karen Polizzi and focuses on the application of engineering biology to develop systems for recombinant protein expression . The research spans both cell-based and cell-free expression platforms and includes application areas such as vaccines and alternative proteins . This is a funded PhD opportunity open to applicants worldwi...

Funded PhD project in synthetic microbial communities , microbial co-cultures , fermentation , and food biotechnology at Imperial College London in collaboration with A*STAR Singapore . The project focuses on designing nutritionally complete microbial food ingredients from mixed co-cultures of safe fungi, yeasts, and bacteria. Research activities include community design, optimisation of culture conditions and media, pilot-scale fermentation up to 200 litres, and nutritional/functional character...

Rice University is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for an interdisciplinary project at the interface of computational protein design , protein engineering , and repeat-expansion disease biology . The position is a collaboration between the Cameron Glasscock lab in Biosciences and the Jessica Butts lab in Bioengineering, supported by the Amyloid Disease and Mechanism Center at Rice University . The project focuses on developing new approaches to target C9orf72 repeat expansions by engineerin...