PhD Opportunities in Biology in Australia

Bond University's Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare and Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine are inviting expressions of interest for a PhD focused on evaluation and implementation science in cardiovascular prevention. The project will evaluate a strategy to integrate influenza vaccination early into hospital-based care following acute myocardial infarction. Although early vaccination during the index admission can reduce all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, vaccination is commonly del...

Bond University is inviting expressions of interest for a Doctor of Philosophy project on the lifecycle value and pricing of medicines on the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS). The research forms part of a broader Centre of Research Excellence collaborative program and will develop and evaluate an evidence-informed framework for reassessing medicine value and pricing across the medicine lifecycle in Australia. It responds to the direction of Australia's health technology assessment...

Bond University’s Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare, within the Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine, is inviting expressions of interest for a PhD focused on implementing antibiotic stewardship in the community . The doctoral research forms part of the Medical Research Future Fund Clinical Trial Activity Grant project Evidence-Based Antimicrobial Stewardship: Sustainable Implementation in Primary Care (EASSI-PC) . The project aims to reduce antibiotic use for acute, self-limiting infecti...

This PhD stipend scholarship at Monash University invites a student to develop an original research project in human-animal interactions . The opportunity is based in the School of Primary and Allied Health Care at Monash’s Peninsula campus , and is shaped around the supervisory expertise of Dr Em Bould and a broader multidisciplinary team. The project direction is intentionally open, allowing the successful candidate to propose their own research program while building on existing work in anima...

This Monash–Bayreuth double PhD project sits within an international joint doctoral program linking Monash University and the University of Bayreuth. The successful candidate will be based at Monash’s Clayton campus and undertake an extended research stay in Germany as part of a collaborative, cross-continental doctoral experience. The project is focused on accelerating the discovery and design of next-generation organic semiconductor materials with tailored optoelectronic properties. You will w...

This UNSW Scientia PhD project investigates federated artificial intelligence for standardising head and neck radiotherapy data and modelling contour variation across hospitals. The research will use large, diverse and international radiotherapy imaging, anatomical structure and radiation-dose datasets to examine differences in clinical practice and develop AI models for more personalised cancer treatment. The project focuses on federated learning, allowing raw data to remain at local institutio...

RMIT University in Melbourne is offering a grant-funded PhD opportunity focused on myelin repair and therapeutic design . The project will investigate how the brain builds and repairs myelin, the insulating material that supports efficient neural communication, and how therapeutic strategies might be designed to promote this repair. The doctoral researcher will work across the Fleiss and Holien labs and use a combination of knockout mouse models and in vitro systems . The research will examine t...

This fully funded PhD will investigate precision medicine for low back pain , with the aim of improving how healthcare decisions are made and identifying which treatments work best for particular patients. The project will combine causal inference and machine learning across nationwide health databases and clinical trial data. The student will develop research expertise in data-driven treatment evaluation, health data analytics and methods for understanding variation in treatment outcomes. Resea...

PhD scholarship opportunities are available for two candidates to join the Monash Bioethics Centre at Monash University’s Clayton campus in Melbourne. The project sits within an ARC-funded Future Fellowship project on addressing cultural diversity in healthcare through global bioethics, led by Dr Ehsan Shamsi Gooshki. The research examines how bioethics engages with cultural diversity across Australian and global healthcare contexts, combining qualitative, quantitative and analytical approaches....