PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Computational Biology 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 ...

The University of Warwick is recruiting a full-time Research Fellow for a three-year fixed-term position based in Coventry, United Kingdom. The role is formally located in the Warwick Mathematics Institute and the School of Life Sciences, with research based in the Zeeman (SBIDER) Institute. The successful researcher will join a pan-European project focused on the containment and control of important plant pathogens and invasive pests. Research will involve developing mechanistic mathematical an...

Two fully funded PhD studentships are available in the United Kingdom, with projects spanning computational biology, biomedical AI, epigenomics and functional genomics. Funding is available for UK home students only; international or overseas tuition fees are not covered. Each studentship includes UK home tuition fees and a stipend at UKRI rates. The first project, Developing Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Investigate Epigenomic Regulatory Logic in Healthy and Disease States , will use co...

The University of Birmingham in Birmingham, United Kingdom, is advertising a PhD studentship on machine learning for plasmid risk assessment and genomic surveillance, with a focus on respiratory disease and the microbiome. The project will analyse large-scale metagenomic sequencing data from patients across the respiratory disease severity spectrum, including people presenting with respiratory symptoms in emergency care and patients with severe pneumonia in intensive care. Researchers will chara...

[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...

PhD opportunity in the lab of Ines Cebola at Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. The project is titled “From genetic risk to disease mechanism: functional genomics of steatotic (fatty) liver disease” and is a 4-year fully funded studentship . It uses human liver models , CRISPR functional genomics , and computational approaches to investigate what disease-associated noncoding variants do and how they contribute to disease. This studentship is funded through the UK Human Functional Gen...

Applications are invited for a fully funded four-year PhD studentship in Immune Ageing at the University of Cambridge , based in the Cambridge Institute for Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease (CITIID) within the Department of Medicine. This studentship is part of CG-AGE , a collaborative programme between Cambridge and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) focused on the mechanisms and phenotypes of immune ageing. The project will use multi-omic single-cell methods , longitudinal human immune data, v...

[Full funding of fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] University of Exeter is offering a funded PhD studentship on a highly interdisciplinary project that combines modelling, image analysis and experimental biology to understand how, when and where viruses undergo recombination in plants. Plant viruses are a major threat to global food production, and this project focuses on a fundamental question in viral evolution: how distinct viral strains encounter one another inside infect...

University of York is advertising a fully funded PhD opportunity in bioinformatics , global health , and virology focused on predicting the next pandemic by enhancing viral surveillance . The project is designed for a student interested in combining computational approaches with laboratory-based research to detect dangerous viral variants earlier and improve preparedness for future outbreaks. The research spans computational biology , structural biology , evolutionary analysis , and high-through...