PhD Opportunities in Cancer Biology

This funded PhD project investigates how distinct liver cancer states become dependent on extracellular signalling. The research is centered on hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and aims to connect observations from human cancer with fundamental biological mechanisms. The student will use complementary experimental systems, including human HCC tissue, three-dimensional spheroids and in vivo genetics. The project also relates to cancer biology, morphogen signalling and extracellular communication, w...

Fully funded PhD opportunity at The University of Manchester, UK: The President's Doctoral Scholarship supports a four-year project titled Molecular Quantum Sensors for High-Resolution Immunomagnetic Mapping of Cancer Cells . The interdisciplinary research combines molecular chemistry, 2D materials , quantum sensing and cancer biology. The project will develop molecular quantum sensors based on spin-active organic molecules and use optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR), magnetic nanoparti...

The Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, Spain, invites applications to its CRG International PhD Programme 2027. The call offers PhD research opportunities across internationally recognised laboratories working in genomics, molecular and cell biology, computational biology, RNA biology, epigenetics, cancer, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, microbiology and bioengineering. Projects include single-cell genomics and lineage tracing, genome regulation, chromatin and 3D genomics, RNA...

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...

Technical University of Munich (TUM) is seeking up to two motivated PhD students for interdisciplinary experimental oncology projects at TUM University Hospital in Munich, Germany. The research asks how cancer treatments can be made more effective while protecting healthy tissue, including the role of intestinal microbiota and whether innovative radiation therapy technologies can enhance cancer immunotherapy. Projects may involve experimental oncology, cancer immunology, microbiology, cancer bio...

PhD position in Peripheral Neuroscience and Neuroimmunology is available from 2027 in the Cancer Neuroimmunology Laboratory led by Prof. Karen Dixon at the Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Switzerland. The department is a joint venture of the University of Basel and the University Hospitals Basel. The project investigates how peripheral neurons sense disease and influence inflammation, antitumour immunity, and tumour progression. Research will focus on sensory neurons, peripheral ...

[Fees plus stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] PhD studentship at the University of Exeter on next-generation machine learning for predicting genetic interactions in cancer, with a specific focus on pancreatic cancer. The project sits at the interface of computational genomics, machine learning, and cancer biology, and is funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC). The research tackles a major challenge in oncology: identifying genetic interactions, including synthetic lethality, that on...

Doctoral (PhD) student position in Chromatin Dynamics and DNA Topology at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. The Baranello Lab is seeking a motivated doctoral student to join a project at the interface of chromatin biology , DNA topology , transcription regulation , and cancer biology . The research asks how topoisomerases are regulated during transcription, how transcription machinery controls topoisomerase activity, and how these mechanisms can be leveraged to identify new anti-cancer...

The University of Bristol’s School of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences is inviting applications for postgraduate research study in Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences , with awards available for both PhD and MSc by Research . This programme covers a broad range of research themes, including cancer biology , engineering biology , genome biology , infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance , modulation and translation of immunity , and organelle biology and protein homeostasis . The sch...