Cancer Research UK Black Leaders in Cancer PhD Scholarship Programme

Fully funded PhD opportunity at Newcastle University in cancer research , focused on how protein methylation helps tumours survive hypoxia . The project asks how oxygen-starved cancer cells adapt and whether those survival mechanisms can be targeted to develop new treatments. The research will concentrate on prostate cancer and triple-negative breast cancer , using CRISPR genetic screening , molecular biology , proteomics , and preclinical cancer models to identify therapeutic vulnerabilities. T...

PhD studentship at Cardiff University / Cardiff School of Biosciences on CD200 immune checkpoint targeting in prostate cancer . The project investigates how CD200 regulates prostate cancer stem cell function, tumour immune evasion, and response to therapy, with a focus on a novel small-molecule CD200 inhibitor (p1019.7) and combination treatment with pembrolizumab. Research themes include prostate cancer , cancer stem cells , immunology , genomics , bioinformatics , molecular biology , cell biol...

[Funding minimum: Home fees student. Funding maximum: International student subject to gaining an NDM studentship.] PhD Studentship at the University of Oxford focused on understanding the double life of Escherichia coli as both a benign gut commensal and a deadly pathogen. This project, based at the John Radcliffe Hospital , forms part of the wider COHORT study led by Professor Susanna Dunachie in collaboration with the Oxford Vaccine Group and the Ellison Institute of Technology . The COHORT s...

Newcastle University is advertising a fully funded 4-year PhD opportunity in epigenomics and childhood leukaemia risk through the CRUK Black Leaders in Cancer PhD Scholarship Programme , delivered with Black in Cancer and the Windsor Fellowship . The project, supervised by Prof Lisa J Russell (Professor of Cancer Epigenomics), focuses on understanding how early-life exposures such as maternal exposure to benzene, caffeine, or folate may create persistent epigenomic changes that alter gene regula...

Fully-funded PhD opportunity in Bat Virology and Metagenomics at the University of Essex , in collaboration with the Quadram Institute and the West Yorkshire Bat Group (WYBG) . The project, titled Virome Dynamics and Viral Discovery in Rehabilitated Bats Revealed by Longitudinal Metagenomics , will investigate how viral communities change in bats during rehabilitation. The research uses longitudinal sampling , shotgun metagenomics , and viral genome discovery , with strong links to virology , mi...