PhD Studentship: A Hostile Niche: How Mutant Blood Stem Cells Damage Their Healthy Neighbours University of East Anglia in United Kingdom

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...

Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD studentship in the School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham , working in Professor Hansong Ma's laboratory . The project focuses on mitochondrial DNA repair , specifically the mechanisms governing mtDNA transmission and maintenance . The successful candidate will use a combination of genetic , cell biological , and molecular approaches in both Drosophila and human cell models to investigate the fundamental principles that regulate mtDNA inhe...

[4-year Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership PhD studentship; includes payment of tuition fees, a stipend for living expenses at the 2026/27 rate of £21,805, and a Research Training Support Grant of £5,000 per year.] PhD Studentship at the University of East Anglia focused on unlocking healthy ageing by harnessing proteostasis pathways to promote extracellular matrix (ECM) function. This project addresses a major challenge in ageing research: how age-related changes in...

PhD Studentship at the University of Cambridge in Comparative innate immune sensing of zoonotic viruses with Professor Brian Ferguson in the Department of Pathology. This project investigates why some viruses cause severe disease after crossing into a new species while others do not. The research will examine how differences in pattern recognition receptor (PRR) signalling between host species influence virus infection, adaptation, and zoonotic emergence. Using molecular virology , immunology , ...

PhD opportunity at the Babraham Institute (Cambridge, United Kingdom) This fully funded PhD project is titled “T cell signalling in fibrotic feedback loops” and sits within the Babraham Institute Graduate Programme . The research focuses on fibrosis , endometriosis , CD8 T cell signalling , cytokine signalling , and the molecular mechanisms that connect the fibrotic tissue environment to altered T cell differentiation and function. The project is a collaboration between the Richard Lab at the Ba...