PhD Studentship in Large Language Models and Comparative Genomics for Zoonotic Bacterial Pathogen Emergence University of Exeter in United Kingdom

The Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit at the University of Cambridge is advertising a fully funded PhD studentship for a UK applicant starting in January 2027. This opportunity is aimed at students who want to apply innovative statistical methods and data science approaches to real biomedical problems, with a focus on advancing human health and disease research. The Unit describes itself as one of the largest groups of biostatisticians in Europe and a major centre for research, trainin...

[Four-year funded PhD studentship with UK/Home tuition fees, a Doctoral Stipend matching the UK Research Council National Minimum (£21,805 per annum for 2026/27, updated each year), and additional research training and support funding of up to £5,000 per annum.] The University of Exeter is offering a PhD studentship through the GW4 BioMed3 MRC Doctoral Landscape Programme on the causes and treatment of type 2 diabetes in people who are not overweight. This project addresses an important and unde...

The University of Antwerp is offering a full-time postdoctoral scholarship holder position focused on direct-from-sputum whole-genome sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis . The work is embedded in the DiSrupT RR-TB clinical trial, which aims to evaluate a multi-component intervention to reduce RR-TB transmission. The successful candidate will support the development, implementation, and scientific evaluation of a hybrid sequencing workflow that combines the QIAseq xHYB M. tuberculosis assay ...

[UKRI-funded four-year PhD studentship with UK/Home tuition fees, a Doctoral Stipend matching the UK Research Council National Minimum (£21,805 per annum for 2026/27, updated each year), and additional research training and support funding of up to £5,000 per annum.] The University of Exeter is offering a PhD studentship through the GW4 BioMed3 MRC Doctoral Landscape Programme on investigating molecular mechanisms underlying resilience to dementia and age-related disorders . The project uses a m...

PhD opportunity at Monash University Malaysia in a Global Excellence and Mobility Scholarship (GEMS 2027) project on shotgun metagenomic profiling of seasonal and climatic effects on the gut microbiome and resistome dynamics in a community cohort. This research sits at the intersection of biology , medical science , public health , environmental science , bioinformatics , genomics , and microbiology . The project will recruit community participants and collect serial stool samples, along with di...