PhD Position in Structure-Based Drug Design and Structural Biology Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany

Pavel Levkin, Professor at the Institute of Biological and Chemical Systems (IBCS-FMS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), is sharing a new tool called FindMyLab for PhD lab discovery and application management. The platform is designed to help PIs and research labs collect PhD applications in a standardized format, making it easier to analyze and assess candidates. It also helps students search across labs and research fields to find a better fit for their interests and background. This i...

EPFL’s AIMM Lab is hiring a PostDoc in collaboration with Novartis for research at the intersection of computer science , biology , and early drug discovery . The project focuses on developing multimodal foundation models for biology , including new model architectures, large-scale pretraining, and agentic interfaces . The role is especially relevant for researchers with strong experience in large-scale AI development and a solid biological background . Successful candidates will work closely wi...

PhD opportunity at the University of Mainz , Germany, in the Czodrowski Lab on identification of new small molecule inhibitors for the aspartic protease endothiapepsin . The project combines structural biology , machine learning , and biophysical methods such as ITC , STD NMR , X-ray diffraction , switchSENSE , and FRET to study drug discovery and protein-ligand interactions. The research aims to virtually identify and experimentally verify novel inhibitors structurally related to endothiapepsin...

PhD opportunity in bioinformatics, machine learning, and structural modelling of β-catenin peptide binders at Helmholtz Zentrum München. This MSCA Doctoral Network position focuses on the discovery of new β-catenin-binding peptides by combining proteome-wide bioinformatic screening, machine-learning model development, and structural prediction/refinement. The project is centred on intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) and their sequence features that enable interaction with β-catenin. The doct...

Fully funded PhD position in Medical Image Analysis and Healthcare AI at Leipzig University , within the Structure-Aware Machine Learning Research Group at ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig . The project sits at the intersection of computer science , machine learning , and biomedical engineering , with a focus on AI methods for medical imaging and healthcare applications. The post highlights strong ML fundamentals, Python/PyTorch experience, and prior research experience as desirable. This is a fully fun...