PhD Studentship: Functional genomic approaches to convergent mechanisms in chromatinopathies University of Exeter in United Kingdom

[Funding of fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] This is a fully funded PhD studentship at the University of Exeter focused on decoding cellular diversity in the human brain and functionally annotating neuronal subtypes across development and disease. The project addresses a major challenge in neuroscience: while single-cell RNA sequencing has revealed many excitatory and inhibitory neuronal subtypes, the regulatory mechanisms that establish and maintain these identities are sti...

Fully funded PhD opportunity in Neuroscience at the University of Sussex (UK) through the Sussex Neuroscience 4-Year PhD Programme. This call is aimed at students interested in motor control , neural circuits , movement disorders , and the biological mechanisms underlying movement. The programme offers up to four funded places for September 2027 entry. Funding: full tuition fees are covered, including international tuition, plus a maintenance stipend of £21,805 per year at the 2026/27 UKRI rate....

[Funded studentship providing fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] PhD studentship at the University of Exeter on the functional genomic characterisation of genetic risk for diabetic neuropathy using human stem cell models. This project addresses a major complication of diabetes that affects peripheral sensory nerves and currently has no treatment that halts or reverses disease progression. The research focuses on APOE, a genetic risk factor with links to neuropathy severity, an...

[Funding of fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] PhD Studentship at the University of Exeter on Dissecting Metabolic Heterogeneity in Severe Mental Illness Through Genetic Clustering and Single-Cell Functional Genomics . This project aims to understand why genetic liability to severe mental illness, especially schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, is linked to different patterns of adiposity and metabolic health. While obesity and type 2 diabetes are more common in people with sev...

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...