Global Excellence and Mobility Scholarship (GEMS)

PhD scholarship at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium in the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences. The project focuses on the development of new allosteric ligands that bind to membrane-bound proteins/channels and on evaluating their therapeutic potential . The research includes the design and synthesis of bioactive peptide-based ligands , synthesis of customized amino acids where needed, discussion and optimization of molecular design, and in vitro and...

💷 The British Pharmacological Society has opened applications for its PhD Funding Programme for 2027 awards . This programme includes the AJ Clark Studentship and the Sir David Jack Scholarship , supporting research in pharmacology and therapeutic innovation leading to a PhD degree. Funding is substantial: the programme supports up to five students each year , with over £100,000 per recipient over three years . Eligibility highlights: applicants should already hold a degree in pharmacology or a ...

PhD opportunity at the National University of Malaysia (UKM) in Neuroscience , hosted in the Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, UKM, Cheras . The project is titled “Exploring the Role of Connexins in Rotenone-Induced Parkinson’s Disease: Insights from an Adult Zebrafish” . This is a research-focused doctoral opening for candidates interested in neuroscience, biology, and medical science, especially disease mechanisms, zebrafish models, and neurodegeneration/Parkinson’s disease. Funding:...

Monash University Malaysia is advertising a PhD Global Excellence and Mobility Scholarship (GEMS 2027) project on the climate–resistance link , focusing on how environmental stress affects resistant and sensitive Escherichia coli . The project combines microbiology , antimicrobial resistance (AMR) , spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR and Raman), and RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) to study biochemical and transcriptomic responses under climate-relevant stressors such as elevated temperature. The research also uses...

PhD studentship at the University of Cambridge in partnership with AstraZeneca: Next-generation targeted protein degradation (TPD) for oncology , focusing on ubiquitin-independent pathways , proteasome-targeting tools, Midnolin biology, cell biology, and biochemistry. The Department of Pharmacology at the University of Cambridge is offering a funded PhD studentship to develop novel approaches for targeted protein degradation in cancer research. The project will be carried out in the lab of Dr Ca...