University of Malaya PhD Research Scholarship

PhD studentship at Newcastle University in cardiovascular development , focused on pharyngeal endoderm transcriptional networks regulating aortic arch artery development and malformation . The project is funded by the British Heart Foundation and sits within an interdisciplinary biosciences environment. The research will investigate how the pharyngeal endoderm controls normal and abnormal artery formation in embryonic development, with relevance to congenital cardiovascular malformations and con...

PhD opportunity at Monash University Malaysia in the project Cross-Regional Mechanisms in Schizophrenia & ASD via Multi-omics in Patient-Derived hiPSC Models , part of the GEMS 2026 scholarship scheme and the MAP-Neuro thematic cluster. This project uses patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) lines from ethnically diverse Malaysian donors, matched controls, and Australian cohorts to study neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disease mechanisms. The research combines cortical ne...

Monash University Malaysia is advertising a PhD Global Excellence and Mobility Scholarship (GEMS 2026) project on the mechanisms and therapeutic potential of psychedelic compounds in patient-derived neural models . This PhD sits within the MAP-Neuro thematic cluster: Diverse hiPSC Models, AI Analytics & Mechanism-Guided Therapeutics . The project investigates compounds such as MDMA and psilocybin in hiPSC-derived neurons and organoids , using high-content imaging to study synaptic plasticity, co...

PhD opportunity at Monash University Malaysia under the Global Excellence Mobility Scholarship (GEMS) scheme. The project is led by Associate Professor Ean Hin Ooi and is focused on microplastics and their role in the kinetics of cancer initiation and progression . The post is suitable for candidates with a background in mechanical engineering or a related discipline, and it is explicitly framed as a multidisciplinary research opportunity. A key feature of the scholarship is mobility: the succes...

PhD opportunity at Monash University Malaysia in Subang Jaya, Malaysia under the Global Excellence and Mobility Scholarship (GEMS 2027) . The project is titled Development of next-generation fluorescent peptide probes for bacterial infection imaging . It focuses on fluorescent peptide probes , bacterial detection , infection imaging , biofilm , and translational approaches for rapid diagnosis of wound-associated and topical bacterial infections. The research aims to optimise fluorophore-linker-p...