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

The EBI–Sanger Postdoctoral (ESPOD) Programme is a collaborative fellowship scheme linking EMBL-EBI and the Wellcome Sanger Institute on the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton near Cambridge. It supports postdoctoral researchers working across both institutes in projects that deliberately combine experimental wet-lab research with computational dry-lab analysis . Fellows can propose their own research ideas, building a project around one group at each institute, or select from a list of projects ...

[£21,805 per annum stipend for 2026/7, plus fees coverage.] PhD studentship at the University of Exeter on Explainable AI for Early Dementia Detection and Deployment . The project develops explainable, trustworthy machine-learning methods for the early detection of cognitive decline and dementia. It brings together multimodal data including cognitive assessments, neuroimaging (such as MRI and PET), genetics, lifestyle factors, comorbidities, blood biomarkers, and clinical notes. Data sources men...

The Wellcome Sanger Institute is inviting applications for its 4-year PhD Programme, beginning on 1 October 2027 at the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. The programme is designed for students interested in genomics, genome research, genetics, molecular biology, bioinformatics and biomedical science. At least 12 funded PhD studentships are available on a competitive basis. Successful students receive full financial support, including University of Cambridge tuiti...

Fully funded PhD opportunity: How fungal communities recover in lowland grasslands after disturbance. This doctoral project investigates fungal community recovery across three UK grassland sites in Norfolk, Hertfordshire, and Devon. The research will use a time-since-disturbance gradient to study soil microbial communities and ecosystem recovery. Methods include soil sampling, metabarcoding of fungi and bacteria, soil chemistry analysis, and a focal grass species study examining roots, rhizosphe...

The University of Oxford is recruiting a Senior Postdoctoral Research Scientist to join the internationally recognised Oxford Endometriosis CaRe Centre (EndoCaRe) within the Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health. Based at the Women’s Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, the postholder will contribute to a translational research programme conducted in collaboration with Hirundo Biosciences. The research will translate human genetic discoveries into potential new treatments fo...

The University of Oxford is recruiting a full-time, fixed-term Postdoctoral Research Scientist for a three-year appointment in the Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health, based at the Oxford Endometriosis CaRe Centre (EndoCaRe) at John Radcliffe Hospital. The successful researcher will investigate new therapeutic targets for endometriosis and help translate human genetic discoveries into potential treatments, working with a multidisciplinary team and industrial partner Hirundo Bi...

The University of Birmingham is offering a full-time PhD studentship in the School of Biosciences investigating drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis using national genomic surveillance data and advanced machine learning. This joint project with the UK Health Security Agency will analyse a national collection of drug-susceptible and drug-resistant M. tuberculosis genomes from England, together with enhanced surveillance records and epidemiological data. The research will characterise res...

PhD Studentship: The Hidden Immune System of Fungi—Uncovering the Roles of NLR Genes The University of Birmingham is offering a PhD studentship in fungal immunology and molecular microbiology, based in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The project investigates how nucleotide-binding and leucine-rich repeat (NLR) genes contribute to the cryptic immune system of fungi. Using the genetically tractable wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici , which contains 20 NLRs, the research will examine fungal-bacterial...

The University of Birmingham is offering a PhD studentship in metagenomic insights into respiratory microbiome dynamics across the disease severity spectrum. Based in Birmingham, United Kingdom, the project investigates how bacterial, viral, and fungal communities change from respiratory symptoms presenting in emergency care to severe pneumonia requiring intensive care. The research will use large-scale metagenomic sequencing data and advanced computational biology methods for microbial profilin...