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

The Babraham Institute is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Scientist to study the role of extracellular proteostasis in healthy ageing and host defence against pathogens. The project addresses mechanisms that maintain protein quality outside cells and prevent protein aggregation, a process associated with age-related functional decline and diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease. The successful researcher will join the David group within the Institute’s Signalling Programme, a collaborative resea...

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...

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...

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 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...

[Fully funded studentship covering fees, maintenance stipend of £21,805 p.a. for 2026/27, and a research training and support grant (RTSG). Limited international places available with home/international fee difference waived; relocation, visa, and health surcharge costs are not covered.] PhD Studentship: Postreproductive Maternal Care and the Evolution of Sex Differences in Lifespan at the University of East Anglia. This project addresses a major question in evolutionary ecology: why do some ani...

[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...

[Home tuition fees and a Doctoral Stipend for up to 4 years.] This PhD studentship at the University of Exeter investigates how defects in the minor spliceosome can trigger a highly specific form of autoimmune diabetes. The project is built around an important biological puzzle: inherited changes in the minor spliceosome components RNU4ATAC and RNU6ATAC can cause monogenic autoimmune diabetes, yet the minor splicing machinery is used in every cell. The studentship aims to identify which U12-intr...