PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Biochemistry in United Kingdom

The University of Nottingham’s School of Chemistry is seeking research students for a 2026 Chemistry PhD. The programme supports independent, in-depth research addressing global challenges in cleaner energy, sustainable synthesis, new materials, healthcare and drug discovery. Research is organised around molecular bonding and spectroscopy, materials, synthesis and catalysis, and biological chemistry. Potential projects may involve chemical synthesis of bioactive natural products, novel catalyst ...

The University of Oxford is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Proteomics and Lipidomics to join the group of Associate Professor Shabaz Mohammed in the Department of Pharmacology. The project investigates the characterisation of crosslinked proteins and lipids within a Wellcome Trust-funded collaborative research grant. The postdoctoral researcher will apply protein and lipid biomolecule methods to support proteome and lipidome characterisation, using sample preparation, liquid chroma...

This fully funded PhD will develop a rapid clinical decision-support technology for emergency bowel surgery. During an operation, surgeons may need to determine within minutes whether a length of bowel is viable. Existing laboratory biochemistry can provide relevant information, but the reported turnaround time is too long for this urgent decision. The project will create low-cost electrochemical sensors capable of producing quantitative, multi-marker measurements in minutes. It will use molecul...

The University of East Anglia’s School of Biological Sciences is offering a funded, full-time PhD studentship in Norwich, United Kingdom, focused on alternative splicing regulation by small nuclear RNA (snRNA) modifications . Based in Dr Alper Akay’s RNA (epi)genetics laboratory, the project will investigate how spliceosomal snRNA modifications regulate RNA splicing and gene-specific splice-site choice. Research will use the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and human cells to examine effects on t...

Queen Mary University of London is recruiting a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate for a 3.5-year project in the Barts Cancer Institute. The ARIA-funded epiPRIME: epigenetically programmed resilience through innate memory engineering project aims to use epigenetic editing in cell lines and primary cells to induce antiviral immunity in human cells in vivo. The postdoctoral researcher will conduct laboratory experiments and collaborate with computational epigeneticists, immunologists and ch...

[Competition-funded 4-year PhD studentship. Covers UK tuition fees and a stipend at the standard UKRI rate. International students have the fee difference covered by university funding.] PhD studentship at the University of Birmingham in the Department of Cancer and Genomics Sciences, joining the group of Dr Tianyi Zhang and Dr Rui Monteiro. This 4-year, competition-funded project is offered through the Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership and is open to UK, EU, and internationa...

The University of Cambridge invites applications for a two-year Postdoctoral Research Associate position in nucleic acid computing and molecular programming, based in the Department of Genetics and associated with Dr Gamze Gürsoy's interdisciplinary laboratory. This primarily experimental, wet-lab role focuses on synthetic biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, biomolecular engineering, and genome engineering. The postholder will develop programmable nucleic-acid systems that sense defined hu...

Funded PhD opportunity in viral DNA mimic proteins at the University of Bristol. Professor Mark Dillingham is seeking an enthusiastic PhD student to investigate how bacterial viruses (phages) produce proteins that masquerade as DNA and sabotage molecular machinery in bacterial hosts. The project will focus on discovering new DNA mimic proteins and understanding their mechanisms, including viral targeting of the bacterial DNA-processing enzyme RecBCD. Research will combine computational structura...

The University of Birmingham is recruiting a full-time Research Fellow in the Department of Pharmacy, School of Health Sciences, College of Medicine and Health. Based in Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK, the fixed-term Grade 7 post runs until April 2029. The Research Fellow will work on an MRC New Investigator Research Grant titled “Targeting lysine metabolism for treatment of epilepsy in tuberous sclerosis complex.” The project involves neurobiology, stem cell biology, metabolism, biochemistry, pharma...