PhD Studentship: Developing a variant effect predictor for multiple missense variants in the same protein molecule to aid clinical interpretation University of Exeter in United Kingdom

[Home tuition fees plus a Doctoral Stipend for up to 4 years.] PhD Studentship at the University of Exeter in From Variants to Placental Function: Using Cell-free DNA to Dissect the Functional Genomics of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes . This project explores how genetic variants influence placental biology and adverse pregnancy outcomes such as preeclampsia, foetal growth restriction, and pre-term delivery. The research uses cell-free DNA (cfDNA) from maternal blood as a minimally invasive way to i...

[Home tuition fees plus a Doctoral Stipend for up to 4 years.] PhD Studentship at the University of Exeter on rare variant functional genomics for better understanding, prevention and treatment of musculoskeletal disorders. This interdisciplinary studentship focuses on uncovering the genetic architecture and biological mechanisms underlying disabling musculoskeletal conditions such as osteoarthritis and Dupuytren’s contracture. The project combines large-scale human genomics, statistical analysi...

[Fees plus stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] PhD studentship at the University of Exeter on next-generation machine learning for predicting genetic interactions in cancer, with a specific focus on pancreatic cancer. The project sits at the interface of computational genomics, machine learning, and cancer biology, and is funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC). The research tackles a major challenge in oncology: identifying genetic interactions, including synthetic lethality, that on...

[Funding covers fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] PhD studentship at the University of Exeter on "One read, one cell: Decoding cell identity with long-read sequencing" . This project sits at the intersection of functional genomics, epigenomics, mathematics, and computer science. It aims to resolve cell-type-specific epigenetic profiles directly from long-read sequencing data, without the need to physically separate cells from complex tissues. Using methylation patterns from O...

[Funded studentship with fees covered and a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] University of Exeter PhD Studentship in Decoding the rules of human gene interaction networks using combinatorial functional genomics . This funded doctoral project sits at the interface of functional genomics, molecular genetics, imaging, bioinformatics, statistics and data science. It addresses a major challenge in human genetics: understanding how combinations of genes interact to shape cellular phenotypes a...