PhD Opportunities in Drug Delivery

A PhD opportunity is available in the Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering at Aarhus University, Denmark. The project focuses on integrating hormonal and biomechanical stimuli into multiscale modelling of human vascular cells. The research aims to advance understanding of sex-aware biomechanics, with connections to mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, vascular cell biology, and fluid dynamics. Applicants should consult the full position announcement for eligibility crit...

The University of Oxford is offering a 3.5-year DPhil studentship in Control and Engineering Biology on the project “Learning and controlling cellular dynamics.” The research sits at the intersection of engineering, biology, control theory and machine learning. Potential directions include developing mathematical and computational models of cellular behaviour, designing feedback-control strategies, and building experimental tools using microfluidics, automated microscopy and light-controlled gen...

PhD position in structural mass spectrometry is available at the University of Geneva, Switzerland , in the Gabelica Group within the Biophysical and Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Section of Pharmaceutical Sciences. The project focuses on the structural mass spectrometry of oligonucleotides and their therapeutic applications. Research interests include molecular structure, biomolecular folding, oligonucleotide characterization, biophysical mass spectrometry, and pharmaceutical or b...

Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, invites applications for three PhD positions in evolutionary ecology, evolutionary genomics, and ecosystem science. The four-year Swiss National Science Foundation-funded project investigates how biotic and abiotic selection shape species interactions, community assembly, evolution, and ecosystem functioning in sub-Arctic lakes of Southern Greenland. The three projects focus on: (1) evolutionary ecology of copepods, including ...

Funded Master’s and PhD positions are available in Dr. Rony Chidiac’s Group (Chidiac Lab) within the Department of Pharmacology-Physiology at the Centre de recherche du CHUS (CRCHUS), Université de Sherbrooke, Canada. The research focuses on human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC)-derived choroidal endothelial cells for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) disease modeling. The project is suited to students interested in stem cell biology, vascular biology, ocular diseases, pharmacology, and cell b...

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...

Garvan Institute of Medical Research is seeking a domestic PhD candidate for a project on the immunogenomics of arthritic joint disease in the Masle-Farquhar Lab. The candidate will apply genomic technologies and analytical pipelines available at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard to Garvan’s rapidly growing Arthritis Tissue Biobank. The research will analyse the world’s first single-cell, long-read sequencing dataset integrating transcriptomes, clonotypes, isoforms, and acquired mutations d...

PhD Position in Machine Learning for Preterm Lung Health The Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Basel, through the Analytics & Informatics for Child Health group in collaboration with University Children’s Hospital Basel, invites applications for a 100% PhD position starting in November 2026 or by agreement. The appointment is for four years. The project focuses on prematurity-associated lung disease and aims to develop a continuous, physiology-based risk-stratification fr...

The UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in Decision Making for Complex Systems has announced academic projects for its fourth PhD cohort, starting in September 2027/28. The programme focuses on artificial intelligence, machine learning, uncertainty-aware modelling, trustworthy decision-making, and complex scientific and socio-technical systems. Projects are advertised across Cambridge and Manchester. Cambridge topics include AI-guided computer-assisted proofs in mathematical physics, AI for unb...