PhD in Precision Medicine: Glucose-lowering Medication Prescribing Patterns in Mental Illness and Diabetes University of Edinburgh in United Kingdom

The University of Oxford’s Department of Psychiatry is seeking a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher to join MARGINS (Mental health And Restrictions: Generating new INSights), a programme based at Warneford Hospital in Oxford. MARGINS investigates the potential impact of proposed policy changes to online technology on children and young people. The programme brings together three complementary research streams, and the postdoctoral researcher will work across all three, providing senior quantitative ...

PhD opportunity at the University of Oxford in real-world evidence, epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacovigilance, paediatrics, cancer biology, data science, medicine, and pharmacology . This DPhil project, hosted by the Botnar Research Centre at the University of Oxford, focuses on assessing the uptake and safety of treatments for rare paediatric cancers using real-world data . The project will use the OMOP Common Data Model to support multi-centre studies of rare childhood cancers, inc...

Samuel Cai and colleagues at the Centre for Environmental Health and Sustainability, University of Leicester are recruiting PhD students for a 2027/28 start. The post highlights two studentships within an expanding environmental and climate health research programme. Opportunity 1: Healthy respiratory ageing Project focus: why some people maintain healthy lungs as they age, using large-scale human data to study the genetic, lifestyle, and environmental determinants of healthy respiratory ageing....

PhD opportunity at the University of Edinburgh in antibiotic resistance, plasmid dynamics, microbial evolution, and infectious disease dynamics . This EASTBIO-funded project asks what determines whether a resistance plasmid establishes and spreads in a new bacterial lineage. The work focuses on Enterobacterales across agricultural, environmental, and clinical reservoirs, with examples including Escherichia coli , Salmonella , and Klebsiella pneumoniae . The project aims to understand how plasmid...

Edinburgh Neuroscience is promoting a cohort-based, multi-partner PhD programme delivered through the University of Edinburgh’s Usher Institute and Precision Medicine Doctoral Training Programme. The programme is designed to train scientists to interrogate state-of-the-art omics information and develop analytical methodologies that generate evidence for equality in health and well-being. The available projects span precision medicine, neuroscience, biomedical science, mental health and neurovasc...