PhD Opportunities in Pharmaceutical Chemistry in Italy

This F.R.S.-FNRS fellowship supports a clinical doctor who is beginning a PhD while continuing part-time specialist work in a university hospital. The award is designed for applicants in the French-speaking part of Belgium and is tied to a research appointment at a university with a medical school. The project sits at the intersection of clinical practice and academic research. During the fellowship, the candidate carries out hospital-based clinical duties and pursues doctoral research in a heal...

The Milad Lab at the University of Ottawa’s School of Pharmaceutical Sciences is recruiting undergraduate summer interns, co-op students, MSc students, and PhD students for hands-on research in respiratory health, inhalation toxicology, and pharmaceutical sciences . The lab investigates how inhaled exposures affect lung biology and disease. Research considers exposures including cigarette smoke, cannabis smoke, e-cigarettes, cannabis vapour, and wood-fire smoke, using both in vitro and in vivo m...

Purdue University’s Borch Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology is hosting a virtual information session for students considering PhD study in drug discovery. The session will introduce prospective doctoral students to research opportunities, graduate training, funding, and admissions within the department. Its academic focus includes medicinal chemistry, molecular pharmacology, pharmacology, drug discovery, and interdisciplinary biomedical research. The event includes a s...

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...

Collaborative Research Center 1278 PolyTarget at Friedrich Schiller University Jena invites applications for a doctoral programme in an interdisciplinary research environment focused on polymer-based nanoparticle libraries for targeted anti-inflammatory strategies . The programme is centred on the development of new therapeutic approaches for infection-triggered inflammatory states. Doctoral researchers will work on the rational design of tailor-made nanoparticulate drug carriers based on functi...

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...

A fully funded PhD position is available at the University of Lille, France , through the EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network IDEAS (Improving Drug Efficacy with Next-Generation Amorphous Materials and Trained Experts). The doctoral project, “Development of a Predictive Toolbox for the Rational Design of Complex Amorphous Bioactive Molecules,” will combine computational physics, molecular modelling, molecular dynamics simulations, quantum chemistry, machine learning, and experiment...

The University of Fribourg in Switzerland is offering a full-time, ERC-funded PhD position in the Department of Chemistry within Pascal Bertsch’s group and the ERC Starting Grant project GI-CORONA. The doctoral researcher will formulate lipid-based colloids, including emulsions, liposomes and lipid nanoparticles, and investigate how these systems digest in the gut and which proteins form their gastrointestinal “biocorona.” The project aims to use this knowledge to design improved oral drug-deliv...

[4-year fully funded Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership PhD studentship including payment of tuition fees, a stipend for living expenses at the 2026/27 rate of £21,805, and a Research Training Support Grant of £5,000 per year.] This fully funded PhD studentship at the University of East Anglia is hosted within the Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership and focuses on chemical biology approaches to tackling antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The p...