Funded PhD in Ancient Genomics, Human Evolution, and Pathogen Genomics The Francis Crick Institute in United Kingdom

Crick PhD Programme 2027 at The Francis Crick Institute is a fully funded doctoral opportunity for highly driven life-science students interested in cross-disciplinary clinical and fundamental research. The programme highlights research at the intersection of genomics , bioinformatics , and disease research , with access to cutting-edge London laboratory infrastructure and elite clinical and academic supervision. This is a PhD opening rather than a scholarship-only call. The post emphasizes a pr...

Funded PhD project at the University of Bristol within the GW4 BioMed3 MRC Doctoral Training Partnership : Hidden codes: Genetic Determinants of HIV-1 Fitness and Immune Recognition . This project investigates how viral genetic sequences influence HIV-1 transmission efficiency , replicative fitness , and immune recognition , with a particular focus on Subtype C HIV and other non-subtype B viruses. The work combines viral genomics , bioinformatics , sequence analysis , evolution , immunology , mi...

Fully-funded PhD studentship at the University of Cambridge / Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute in innate-adaptive immune interactions in cancer evolution . The project is supervised by Dr Tim Halim and focuses on how tissue-resident immune cells, especially group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2) , coordinate with other immune and non-immune cells during early tumour development and cancer evolution. The work spans multiple cancer types, including pancreatic, breast, ovarian, and lung , and a...

Fully funded PhD opportunity at the University of Glasgow in AI-driven surveillance for respiratory infections . This project sits within the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research and the School of Infection and Immunity, with training and secondments through the EU-funded DETECTIVE MSCA Doctoral Network. The research focuses on building a pathogen-agnostic, AI-enabled surveillance system for severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) by integrating clinical, laboratory, genomic, a...

Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge is advertising a fully funded PhD studentship in the lab of Professor Rahul Roychoudhuri . The project investigates how regulatory T (Treg) cells control immune responses and how their antigen specificity shapes immune suppression and immune tolerance. Using TCR-transgenic mouse models , the research will directly test models of antigen-specific suppression and explore the mechanisms by which Tregs suppress conventional T cells. This is an interdi...