PhD Opportunities in Tissue Engineering in Italy

McGill University is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher and PhD/Master’s students to join Sina Kheiri’s translational oncology laboratory and collaborate with surgeons and clinicians in the Division of Thoracic Surgery at the Research Institute of the MUHC (RI-MUHC). The lab develops human tissue models and microphysiological systems to investigate cancer development and treatment. The research environment connects bioengineering and cancer biology with clinical expertise, enabling projects th...

Heidelberg University Hospital’s Center for Integrative Infectious Disease Research (CIID) is seeking a PhD student to work within the Excellence Cluster SynthImmune and a DFG-funded research project on HIV pathogenesis and human lymphoid models. The doctoral researcher will develop and optimize human lymphoid organ culture systems, including tonsil explants and aggregate cultures, to investigate adaptive immune responses and HIV-1 infection. Using tissue-engineering and microfluidic methods, th...

The PhD Programme in Regenerative Sciences (PhD RegSci) at Hannover Medical School is an interdisciplinary doctoral programme in regenerative medicine. It brings together research on novel regenerative agents and biomaterials, cell transplants, artificial tissues, and cell-enhanced bioimplants. The programme is embedded in the Cluster of Excellence REBIRTH (“From Regenerative Biology to Reconstructive Therapy”) and is linked to the Hannover Biomedical Research School (HBRS) . Doctoral researcher...

Boğaziçi University is seeking doctoral researchers for an interdisciplinary project in polymer bioelectronics, neural interfaces, biomaterials, micro/nanofabrication and electrospinning . The project is supported by the TÜBİTAK 2232-A International Leading Researchers Program and is based at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering. The research covers the development of electronic systems involving polymer chemistry, polymer synthesis, conductive polymers and biosensor applications. Researchers...

PhD fellowship in translational tissue engineering for urethral reconstructions at the Department of Pediatric Surgery, Julianne Marie Center, Rigshospitalet, within a research environment focused on paediatric surgery, urology, and tissue engineering. The project addresses severe congenital malformations of the urinary and genital systems, with a specific focus on developing autologous tissue-engineered grafts for male urethral reconstruction. The work aims to support reconstructive surgery in ...

Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is offering a PhD opportunity in Biomedical Sciences through its College of Medicine. The programme supports biomedical research across several areas, including cancer biology , genetics , infectious diseases , stem cell biology and tissue engineering . These fields provide opportunities to investigate disease mechanisms, biological variation, host–pathogen interactions, cellular renewal and the develo...

This PhD project at Maastricht University focuses on how cell–matrix interactions can be controlled using dynamic supramolecular hydrogels . The work sits at the interface of biomaterials, mechanobiology, cell biology, and polymer chemistry, with the goal of understanding how cells sense and respond to hydrogel properties such as molecular organization, stiffness, stress relaxation, ligand presentation, and dynamic reinforcement. You will join the BioMatt group within MERLN’s Department of Instr...

Tu/e is offering a PhD position on bioreactor-based preservation of human heart valves within the Department of Biomedical Engineering. The project sits in the Soft Tissue Engineering and Mechanobiology (STEM) group and is closely connected to the work of Assistant Professor Marijn Peters , Professor Carlijn Bouten , and Assistant Professor Marcel Rutten , alongside collaborators in mechanical engineering and cardiovascular biomechanics. The research goal is to develop and improve a model that c...

Applications are open for the fully funded Bioengineering Ph.D. program at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) for Fall 2027. Direct Ph.D. admission is also available. Research opportunities span bioinformatics and computational biology, biomedical devices and biosensors, biomechanics, biomaterials and tissue engineering, and biotechnology . The program is suited to students interested in biomedical engineering research and the development of solutions to real-world challenges...