PhD Opportunity in Data-Driven Approaches for Maternity Vaccine Equity and Health Informatics University of Edinburgh in United Kingdom

[4-year Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership PhD studentship including tuition fees paid directly to the University, a stipend for living expenses (£21,805 for 2026/27), and a Research Training Support Grant of £5,000 per year.] This PhD studentship explores how enhancers control the emergence of blood, vascular, and cardiac cell fates during vertebrate development. Using the chick embryo as a model, the project focuses on how gene-regulatory programmes shape the trans...

Mihaela van der Schaar is opening applications for another year of fully funded PhD positions in Machine Learning in her group, with a 2027 start . The opportunity is aimed at outstanding students who want to build AI that changes the world for the better. The post is from the van der Schaar Lab at the University of Cambridge , led by Mihaela van der Schaar , whose research spans machine learning , artificial intelligence , and medicine . This makes the opening especially relevant for applicants...

[Fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] PhD Studentship in Functional Genomics of Health and Unhealthy Fat Distribution at the University of Exeter, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge. This funded doctoral project investigates why fat distribution differs between individuals and how genetic regulation influences healthier subcutaneous fat storage versus higher-risk visceral fat accumulation. The research focuses on identifying coding and non-coding variants linked t...

PhD opportunity in the lab of Ines Cebola at Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. The project is titled “From genetic risk to disease mechanism: functional genomics of steatotic (fatty) liver disease” and is a 4-year fully funded studentship . It uses human liver models , CRISPR functional genomics , and computational approaches to investigate what disease-associated noncoding variants do and how they contribute to disease. This studentship is funded through the UK Human Functional Gen...

PhD opportunity at the University of Oxford in Learning Prognostic World Models from Longitudinal Medical Data (Botnar-2026-07), based at the Botnar Research Centre within NDORMS / CSM. This project sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence , computer science , medical statistics , medical imaging , and clinical prediction . The research aims to build a multimodal, intervention-aware world model that learns patient-specific disease dynamics from serial imaging, reports, and structured ...