PhD Positions in Developmental Biology in Denmark

The Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine (SGBM) at the University of Freiburg is an international doctoral school offering a multidisciplinary research and training environment in the life sciences and biomedicine. Doctoral fellows work toward a PhD at the University of Freiburg, and medical doctors can also join an MD/PhD pathway. The programme is embedded in a strong research network that includes outstanding research facilities and major partner institutions and clusters such as th...

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München is offering a PhD project in Placental Biology at the Biomedical Center Munich (BMC), Institute of Physiological Chemistry, in Planegg, Germany. The research investigates how a conserved chromatin regulatory network safeguards early development, with particular emphasis on the extra-embryonic lineage and its communication with the developing embryo. The project will examine how disruption of this network in the placenta can influence fetal brain development...

PhD Student in Placental Biology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich’s Biomedical Center (BMC) in Munich. The project explores the earliest stages of post-implantation development, focusing on how the developing embryo and placenta begin exchanging signals. The research examines how chromatin regulation helps establish and maintain communication between embryonic and placental tissues. The doctoral researcher will use mouse genetics, stem-cell-based approaches and multi-omics to invest...

The international and interdisciplinary PhD programme Genomic and Molecular Medicine – Personalised Approaches to Childhood Health is based at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and is linked to the Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital and the Munich Medical Research School . It is designed around research and qualification in child health, with a strong emphasis on understanding normal and pathological development. Students can work across a broad set of research areas including genomics, epi...

This opening is for a PhD Scientific Researcher in the Initial Stage Researcher category within the project Beating4aleft-heart: Ions and cilia motility regulation at the base of heart sidedness (Ref. LCF/PR/HR26/53000026). The project focuses on how ionic regulation and cilia motility contribute to the mechanisms that establish heart sidedness and left-right body asymmetry. The successful researcher will contribute to a work plan centred on two linked aims. First, the project examines a flow ho...

[4-year Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership PhD studentship including tuition fees paid directly to the University, a stipend for living expenses (£21,805 for 2026/27), and a Research Training Support Grant of £5,000 per year.] This PhD studentship explores how enhancers control the emergence of blood, vascular, and cardiac cell fates during vertebrate development. Using the chick embryo as a model, the project focuses on how gene-regulatory programmes shape the trans...

The International Max Planck Research School for Molecular Plant Science (IMPRS MolPlant) is a joint doctoral programme of the University of Potsdam and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam, Germany. It offers PhD research and training in modern plant science within an interdisciplinary and research-intensive environment. Doctoral researchers work on fundamental questions in plant biology, including photosynthesis, central metabolism, respiration, organ and tissue fo...

The International Max Planck Research School for Molecular Organ Biology (IMPRS-MOB) offers a structured doctoral programme in a strong research environment focused on molecular, cellular and organ biology . The programme is based at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim and is run in cooperation with Justus Liebig University Giessen , Goethe University Frankfurt , and the Cardio Pulmonary Institute . Doctoral researchers carry out their thesis project under the dir...

Heidelberg Biosciences International Graduate School (HBIGS) at Heidelberg University is a doctoral programme in the biosciences, offering PhD training in a highly interdisciplinary research environment in Heidelberg. The programme brings together research areas in which Heidelberg is especially strong, including developmental biology, infectious diseases, molecular and cellular biology, molecular biotechnology and biophysics, molecular plant sciences, neurosciences, structural biology, biochemi...