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PhD Scholarship Opportunity: Sauna-Based Heat Therapy for Alzheimer's Disease This PhD project at Western Sydney University investigates whether controlled sauna-based heat therapy can help protect the brain from Alzheimer's disease. The research focuses on how heat exposure activates the body's natural heat shock response and whether this can influence biological processes involved in Alzheimer's pathology. The project is positioned at the intersection of neuroscience , biological science , and...

PhD scholarship opportunity at Curtin University in the School of Nursing for a project titled Closing the Vaccine Gap: Understanding and overcoming vaccine decline in Aboriginal pregnant mothers, babies and adolescents in Western Australia . This is a fully funded PhD with a living stipend of up to $50,000 per annum for up to 3 years (full-time). The project is led by Professor Anne-Marie Eades and involves a multidisciplinary team and community partners, including work with Aboriginal communit...

Two fully funded PhD scholarships are open at the Australian National University for the international project Cultures of the Cryosphere: Infrastructures, Politics and Futures of Artificial Cooling , supported by a European Research Council Synergy Grant. The project examines how artificial cooling is reshaping societies, environments, and futures through systems such as air conditioning, cryobanks, frozen supply chains, laboratories, and data centres. The two PhD projects are: 1) Air condition...

PhD opportunity at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) in collaboration with The University of Melbourne for students interested in oral microbiology , immunology , probiotics , postbiotics , host–microbial interactions , and translational biomedical research . The research group at the Kulliyyah of Dentistry is inviting highly motivated applicants to work on multidisciplinary projects related to oral microbiome and polymicrobial biofilms , next-generation antimicrobials , natur...

Joint PhD scholarship opportunity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis , infection biology, metabolism, and drug resistance at the University of Melbourne in collaboration with IISER Tirupati . The project is a joint PhD between the laboratories of Associate Professor Raju Mukherjee (IISER Tirupati), Associate Professor Anna Coussens , and the Melbourne group led by Ivanhoe Leung . The research will investigate the molecular mechanisms that allow Mycobacterium tuberculosis to persist during infection a...