PhD in Learning Prognostic World Models from Longitudinal Medical Data University of Oxford in United Kingdom

PhD studentship opportunity at the Rosalind Franklin Institute for a home student interested in interdisciplinary life science technology , imaging , AI , chemistry , and biology . This is a research training opportunity aligned with the Franklin PhD programme and is especially relevant for applicants with interests spanning computational and experimental life sciences. The post is being shared by Dementia Researcher and points to the Franklin PhD programme page for full details and application ...

PhD opportunity at the University of Oxford in Agentic AI for Analytical Code Development to Support Regulatory Real-World Evidence Generation (Botnar-2026-04). This DPhil in Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Statistics is a 3.5-year project based at the Botnar Research Centre , University of Oxford, focused on using agentic artificial intelligence and large language models to translate study protocols into reproducible analytical code for real-world evidence studies. The project sits at the int...

Fully funded PhD opportunity at the University of Surrey in medical multimodal language models and alignment methods for trustworthy healthcare AI. The project focuses on developing methods that improve alignment between heterogeneous medical modalities and language outputs, aiming to reduce hallucinations and produce grounded, reliable reports. Research topics include medical imaging , radiology , genomics/multiomics , clinical time-series , multimodal foundation models , self-supervised learni...

PhD opportunity at the University of Oxford in Development and Validation of External Control Arm Methodology Using Clinical Trial and Real-World Data (Botnar-2026-03). This DPhil in Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Statistics focuses on developing and validating external control arms (ECAs) using routinely collected real-world healthcare data and electronic health records. The project will compare ECA-derived treatment effects with completed randomized controlled trials, assess the value of li...

PhD opportunity at the University of Oxford / Botnar Research Centre in the Snelling Soft Tissue Repair Group , focused on the cellular basis of osteoarthritis progression . The project combines synovial tissue biology , musculoskeletal biology , next generation sequencing , bulk RNA-seq , single nucleus RNA-seq , imaging , and in vitro/ex vivo models to identify and modify pathways involved in pain, vessel ingrowth, fibrosis, and hyperplasia. The student will analyse in-house and public transcr...