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

Postdoctoral Researcher in Cancer Cell Plasticity and Functional Genomics at the VIB–KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology in Leuven, Belgium. The Laboratory for Functional Genomics and Gene Regulation, established in 2025, is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to investigate the molecular mechanisms and genetic dependencies underlying cancer cell plasticity, using pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) as the main model system. The project sits at the intersection of cancer biolo...

[Home tuition fees plus a Doctoral Stipend for up to 4 years.] PhD Studentship at the University of Exeter in functional genomic approaches to convergent mechanisms in chromatinopathies . This project explores a major unmet medical need in rare genetic disease research: understanding whether several chromatinopathies share overlapping molecular mechanisms that could be targeted by the same drug treatment. Chromatinopathies are caused by variants in genes involved in chromatin remodelling and are...

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...

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...

[Funding of fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7. Funded by the EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.] PhD Studentship at the University of Exeter: Allele-resolved genetics and epigenetics in type 2 diabetes This funded PhD studentship explores how genetic variation alters gene regulation in type 2 diabetes (T2D), with a focus on pancreatic islets. The project addresses a major challenge in human genetics: disease-associated DNA changes often act through regula...

[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...

[Home tuition fees plus a Doctoral Stipend for up to 4 years.] PhD Studentship at the University of Exeter in Editing the Alzheimer’s Epigenome: From Human Brain Variation to Functional Mechanisms . This studentship addresses a major question in Alzheimer’s disease research: which epigenetic changes observed in human brain actually alter gene regulation and contribute to disease biology. The project builds on cell-type-specific epigenomic datasets generated from human post-mortem brain using flu...

[Fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] PhD Studentship in Functional Genomics of Health and Unhealthy Fat Distribution at the University of Exeter, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge. This funded doctoral project investigates why fat distribution differs between individuals and how genetic regulation influences healthier subcutaneous fat storage versus higher-risk visceral fat accumulation. The research focuses on identifying coding and non-coding variants linked t...

[Fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] PhD studentship at the University of Exeter on mapping and functional interrogation of mitochondrial DNA modifications in Parkinson’s disease. This project investigates how DNA modifications in the mitochondrial genome may regulate mitochondrial function and contribute to Parkinson’s disease. Using Oxford Nanopore long-read sequencing on native enriched mtDNA, the project will develop and validate approaches to detect multiple DNA modificati...