PhD Positions in Chemical Biology in China

[4-year studentship with annual UKRI minimum stipend currently £21,805 per year, plus £1,000 per annum enhancement and a research training support grant of up to £20,000 for the full programme.] This 4-year PhD studentship at The University of Manchester sits at the interface of polymer chemistry, membrane biophysics, and protein science. The project is focused on developing a new generation of chemically defined amphiphilic polymers that can extract membrane proteins from their native lipid env...

[4-year funded PhD studentship with annual UKRI minimum stipend (currently £21,805 per year) plus £1,000 per year enhancement, and a research training support grant of up to £20,000 for the full programme. Open to Home (UK) and international applicants; funding is competitive and awarded to the strongest applicants.] This PhD studentship at The University of Manchester develops new chemically engineered proximity probes for sensing dynamic molecular neighbourhoods in living cells. The project ad...

A fully funded doctoral researcher position at the University of Helsinki invites applications to study protein synthesis in the lab of Sarah O’Keefe , with co-supervision from Brendan Battersby . The project, Inhibiting Protein Synthesis – Old, New, Borrowed, Blue , is based at the Viikki Campus in Helsinki and sits within the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences. The project brings together cellular and chemical biology to investigate how protein synthesis works and how it can be d...

The Konstanz Research School Chemical Biology (KoRS-CB) at the University of Konstanz offers a structured doctoral programme in chemical biology, designed to prepare researchers to address fundamental questions about life in chemical terms. The programme combines interdisciplinary education with research across five closely connected areas: synthetic chemistry, cellular biochemistry, biomedicine, biophysics, and computational life science. Students work in an academic environment that emphasizes...

PhD opportunity at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur for candidates interested in interdisciplinary research spanning chemical biology, peptide chemistry, drug discovery and bioorthogonal chemistry. The research environment is connected with contemporary approaches in chemical biology and molecular discovery, including peptide-based research and the development or application of chemical tools for biological systems. Potential research interests include cyclic peptides, chemical epige...

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is offering a PhD project in the Department of Chemistry at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, supervised by Prof. Dr. Oliver Seitz . The position is embedded in bioorganic synthesis at the chemistry/biochemistry interface and focuses on the chemical construction of peptide-DNA and peptide-PNA conjugates. The doctoral researcher will work on the synthesis and biological evaluation of these conjugates, combining organic synthesis with analytical and bi...

Shubhendu Palei's research group at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur is seeking highly motivated PhD students to work at the interface of chemical biology , cyclic peptide drug discovery , and epigenetics . The opening offers an opportunity to pursue research on chemically driven approaches to biological questions, with a particular focus on cyclic peptides and their potential in drug discovery. Students may engage with interdisciplinary problems connecting peptide chemistry, molecul...

The Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Brussel is offering a PhD scholarship within the Department of Chemistry. The project focuses on the development of new allosteric ligands that can bind to membrane-bound proteins and channels, with the goal of exploring their therapeutic potential. The successful candidate will work on the design and synthesis of bioactive, peptide-based ligands , including the preparation of customised amino acids when needed. The resear...

The University of Helsinki is recruiting a doctoral researcher for the project Inhibiting Protein Synthesis – Old, New, Borrowed, Blue at the Viikki Campus in Helsinki, Finland. The project is based in the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Department of Molecular and Integrative Bioscience, and is led by Principal Investigator Sarah O’Keefe with co-supervision from Brendan Battersby. The research investigates how proteins are made and how protein-synthesis machinery can be inhibi...