Funded PhD in Mechanistic Understanding of How Obesity Causes Cancer and Cancer Cell Adaptation QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Australia

PhD project at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Brisbane, Australia on cancer biology , medical science , and neuroscience . The project, supervised by Dr Lachlan Harris , aims to improve survival for adult brain cancer patients by targeting quiescent glioma stem cells (“sleeping” cancer stem cells) in glioblastoma (GBM) . The research background highlights that GBM is the most common malignant primary brain tumour in adults and remains highly lethal, with resistance driven by glioma...

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow / Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on functional and system metabolism in development and cancer . This is a research-intensive postdoctoral opening in a highly relevant biomedical area, with strong overlap in biology and medical science . The post is associated with Jian Xu , a member of the St. Jude faculty in the Department of Pathology and the Center of Excellence for Leukemia Studies. The role appears to be bas...

PhD opportunity in Genetics of Gastro-Intestinal Cancers at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia. This funded PhD project focuses on the genetics of gastro-intestinal cancers, including colorectal, gastric, oesophageal, pancreatic, and hepatobiliary cancers. The project explores shared and cancer-specific genetic architecture, pleiotropic risk loci, biological pathways, and the translational potential of cross-cancer genetic risk models for precision screening. Research...

The George Institute for Global Health is recruiting five PhD candidates for the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence project Switching the World's Salt Supply for Cardiovascular Prevention . This doctoral opportunity focuses on cardiovascular prevention , blood pressure reduction , stroke prevention , implementation science , global health , and the public-health impact of potassium-enriched salt as an evidence-based strategy to improve population health at scale. The post highlights collaborati...

PhD opportunity at Robinson Research Institute, Adelaide University in the Microbiome in Reproduction Laboratory . This project focuses on the reproductive microbiome and women's health , with an emphasis on chronic conditions such as pelvic pain and endometriosis . The research combines microbiology , genomics , bioinformatics , reproductive biology , and translational clinical research. Planned work includes developing and validating new approaches for at-home reproductive tract sampling, char...