PhD Opportunities in Public Health in France

This doctoral project is hosted at the Institute of Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC) on the CNRS campus at Gif-sur-Yvette, within a collaborative research network involving IJPB-INRAE (Versailles) and IGEPP-INRAE (Rennes) . The thesis focuses on how modifying vacuolar nitrate storage can alter nitrogen use efficiency , water use efficiency , and tolerance to water stress in Arabidopsis thaliana . The work centers on the nitrate transporter CLCa and asks how changing nitrate storage in diff...

This PhD project, STILANTIBIO (“How Do Plant Polyphenolic Stilbenoids Act as Antimicrobial Agents?”), explores how plant-derived stilbenoids act against microbes through a combined approach in chemistry, chemical biology, microbiology, and bioinformatics. The doctoral research is part of a collaborative programme with the Institut de Chimie & Biologie des Membranes et des Nano-objets (CBMN) and the Centre de BioInformatique de Bordeaux (CBiB) . The student will work on the design and synthesis o...

This doctoral project is part of the ANR PALWOOD programme (2026–2030), which investigates the evolution of wood during the Paleozoic, from the first appearance of wood in the early Devonian to the end-Permian crisis. The project brings together researchers from multiple French research units, including AMAP (Montpellier), CR2P (Paris) and EEP (Lille), with international collaborators. The thesis focuses on the anatomical disparity of homoxylous woods , i.e. woods without vessels. The doctoral r...

The doctoral project is part of the interdisciplinary AcrioFarm research on overdoses, within the CNRS PRIME team directed by Marie Jauffret-Roustide . It focuses on the experience of opioids among users, with particular attention to access to care and harm reduction in a context marked by the spread of synthetic opioids and rising overdose rates. The thesis will examine users’ preferences for natural and synthetic opioids, their experiences of treatment and harm reduction services, and the prev...

INRAE Doctoral Contracts are salaried PhD positions hosted by France’s national research institute for agriculture, food and the environment. The institute has around 272 research units across France, giving doctoral researchers access to a wide national research network. These contracts support doctoral research linked to INRAE’s scientific areas, especially agriculture, food, ecology and the environment. The position is structured as a work contract rather than a stipend, so doctoral researche...

The Laboratoire Catalyse et Spectrochimie (LCS) in Caen, France, is seeking a PhD candidate for BIOJET-X, an Indo-French research project supported by CEFIPRA and conducted in collaboration with the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology in India. The project investigates how biomass-derived molecules can be transformed into jet-fuel-range hydrocarbons for sustainable aviation fuel applications. The PhD researcher will develop multifunctional catalysts based on extra-large-pore zeolites ...

This doctoral scholarship supports PhD research in transplantation within the natural sciences, with projects focused on organ or tissue transplants and related themes such as immunology, surgery, and clinical transplant medicine. The award is offered by the Société Francophone de Transplantation (SFT), a scientific society active in France and other French-speaking countries. The funds are paid to the student’s university, which uses them through a fixed-term contract arrangement to support the...

This scholarship supports a PhD in cancer research at a French university, with the dissertation carried out in a laboratory in France. It is funded by the Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer , France’s largest independent non-profit organisation supporting cancer research. The call is broad in the way it defines eligible cancer-related work, spanning basic research , translational research , clinical research , epidemiological research , and applied social sciences focused on cancer and cancer pre...

Co-sponsored doctoral grants from the French Ministry of Defence support PhD research on topics relevant to French defence, through the Agence de l’innovation de défense (AID). The programme funds a wide range of projects each year and is designed for candidates whose research aligns with the agency’s priorities in the natural and engineering sciences, as well as defence-related social sciences. The grant is intended for doctoral research carried out in a French laboratory, with the funding paid...