PhD in Computational Modelling of Cell Morphology in the Spatial Organisation of Cancer The Francis Crick Institute in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity: Quantifying drug response in cancer using 4D imaging with oblique plane microscopy (OPM) and optical coherence tomography (OCT) at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS), London, United Kingdom. This funded PhD project focuses on understanding heterogeneous drug response and resistance in cancer. The project combines biophysics , cancer biology , cell biology , optical physics , and data analysis to study how genetically identical cancer cells respond differently to drugs ...

GW4 BioMed3 MRC DLP PhD project at the University of Bath / University of Exeter: Do respiratory cilia sense and signal infection? This competition-funded PhD project sits within the GW4 BioMed3 MRC Doctoral Landscape Programme and is one of several projects competing for up to 17 studentships for entry in September 2027. The project is based across the University of Bath and the University of Exeter , with supervision from Prof Andrew Preston and Prof Kirsty Wan . The research focuses on respir...

PhD opportunity at the University of Cambridge / Cambridge Stem Cell Institute on cellular decision making in normal and leukaemic blood stem cells . The project is led by Professor Bertie Göttgens (Göttgens Group) and combines experimental and computational approaches to study how blood stem cells maintain lifelong blood production, how gene regulatory networks control haematopoiesis, and how these systems are disrupted in ageing and leukaemia. Research themes include: early blood development f...

Christopher Tape, Professor of Cell Communication at the UCL Cancer Institute, is recruiting a PhD student for a four-year project starting in January 2027 (flexible). The project asks whether all regions of a tumour are equally capable of adapting to treatment. The research focuses on colorectal cancer cell plasticity, including transitions from a fast-growing, chemotherapy-sensitive state to a wound-healing, drug-resistant state, and how the tumour microenvironment shapes these changes. The st...

Gamze Gürsoy is hiring a postdoc at the University of Cambridge to work on privacy-preserving human pangenomes . The project sits at the intersection of statistics , graph algorithms , optimization , differential privacy , and computational genomics . This is a research-focused postdoctoral opening for candidates with relevant quantitative and computational backgrounds. The post highlights methods development and genomics applications, making it a strong fit for applicants interested in algorith...