IIUM Distinguished Doctoral Scholarship

PhD opportunity at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) in London, UK, supported by the Royal Society and associated with the Cockburn Lab. The project focuses on malaria vaccine discovery, specifically identifying new antigen targets for next-generation vaccines beyond current single-protein approaches. Research directions include either cloning/screening protective antibodies against sporozoites or investigating how CD4+ T cells work with CD8+ T cells to control infection...

SAMRC has opened applications for the Postgraduate Research Associate Programme for 2027. This opportunity supports Master's and PhD studies in clinical research and health research . It is aimed at South African citizens and permanent residents . The post is shared by the South African Medical Research Council and appears to be a postgraduate research funding opportunity rather than a staff job. The programme is relevant to students interested in medical science , public health , and related he...

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:...

PhD opportunity at Monash University Malaysia in Pharmacy focused on co-designing community-based antimicrobial stewardship interventions through a One Health framework. The project investigates behavioural, social, and system-level drivers of inappropriate antimicrobial use in community settings. Methods include qualitative interviews, focus groups, stakeholder mapping, participatory co-design workshops, and pilot testing of context-specific interventions. Research outputs may include community...

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...