PhD Opportunities in Drug Delivery in Netherlands

Utrecht University is advertising a PhD position in novel cell secretome-based therapeutics for osteoarthritis at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine , Department of Biomolecular Health Sciences. The project focuses on extracellular vesicles (EVs) , EV-enriched secretomes, and the development of new tools to monitor batch-to-batch consistency, understand EV cargo-function relationships, and identify disease-related signatures in blood and synovial fluid from osteoarthritis patients. The research ...

Amsterdam UMC is advertising a PhD position within the EU-funded MERIT MSCA training programme: “Role of mitochondrial dysfunction in enterovirus CNS disease (MCSA-DC)” . The project is based at OrganoVIR Labs at Amsterdam UMC (location AMC) in the Netherlands and is coordinated by Dr. Adithya Sridhar (Assistant Professor) and Prof. Dr. Dasja Pajkrt (Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases). The research focuses on virology , mitochondrial dysfunction , enterovirus , CNS disease , brain organ...

Amsterdam UMC is advertising a PhD position within the EU-funded MERIT (MEtabolic Reprogramming in viral pathogenesis: from Infection to Therapeutic innovations) training programme. The project is based at Amsterdam UMC, location AMC, Netherlands , and focuses on implementation science , biosafety , biosecurity , virus research , behavioural science , and mixed methods research . The doctoral project (Work Package 2) aims to bridge the gap between biosafety guidelines and everyday laboratory pra...

PhD position at the University of Groningen in EEG and neurobiological markers , focused on reward, motivation, impulsivity , precision medicine , and transdiagnostic research across major depressive disorder , Alzheimer’s disease , and obesity . The project combines three main components: a systematic review of EEG measures, empirical EEG analyses using cohort and clinical data, and hypothesis-driven research on relationships between EEG and other neurobiological markers. The work aims to ident...

PhD position in Data Science at the University of Groningen (Faculty of Science and Engineering), Netherlands. This PhD project sits at the intersection of data science , digital phenotyping , digital biomarkers , neuroscience , psychology , and clinical research . The successful candidate will investigate digital proxies of Reward, Motivation and Impulsivity (RM&I) and their relationship with neurobiological markers and clinically relevant outcomes. The work is part of an international, interdi...

Amsterdam UMC is recruiting a PhD candidate for the MERIT MSCA doctoral network to study mechanisms of HIV-induced neurodegeneration . The project sits at the intersection of medical science , neuroscience , virology , cell biology , and lipidomics , with a strong translational focus on HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) and related neurodegenerative disease mechanisms. The doctoral project will be carried out at OrganoVIR Labs at Amsterdam UMC (location AMC) in the Netherlands , und...

PhD opportunity in biogeography, mycology, microbial ecology, and plant-microbe interactions at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) in Wageningen, the Netherlands, with collaboration through the Galapagos Microbiome Initiative at the University of San Francisco de Quito (USFQ). The project will investigate the hidden diversity and biogeographic patterns of fungi associated with Scalesia species in the Galápagos Islands, including arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) , yeasts, and fung...

Computational Drug Discovery Leiden at Leiden University is advertising an open PhD position for a doctoral candidate in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network ANA-KIN . The post suggests a research environment focused on computational drug discovery , with mention of GPUs and a lab/group setting. This is a doctoral opening rather than a postdoctoral or master’s opportunity. Institution: Leiden University, Netherlands. Funding: The position is part of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Netwo...

PhD position in Multisynaptic Plasticity in Dendrites at Radboud University (Faculty of Science, Donders Centre for Neuroscience, Nijmegen, Netherlands). This PhD project studies neuroscience , especially synaptic plasticity , dendrites , hippocampal CA1 neurons , intracellular signalling , calcium signalling , and the interaction of molecular pathways during simultaneous activation of multiple synapses. The work combines two-photon glutamate uncaging , advanced microscopy , single-cell electrop...