PhD Opportunities in Biostatistics in South Korea

Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health is inviting applications for a Fall 2027 PhD in Biostatistics. The program offers advanced training in biostatistics and statistical methodology within a public-health research environment. Students can pursue research across artificial intelligence and machine learning, epidemiology and infectious disease modelling, Bayesian statistics, causal inference, spatial statistics, longitudinal data analysis, statistical genetics and genomics, clinical...

The University of Oslo is offering a doctoral research fellowship at the Centre for Precision Psychiatry, affiliated with the Institute of Clinical Medicine and conducted in collaboration with the Department of Medical Genetics at Oslo University Hospital. The PhD project, Multimodal metabolic markers for mechanisms and predictive trajectories of Alzheimer’s disease , is part of the Back2Future project led by Professor Srdjan Djurovic. It will investigate whether early, heritable metabolic and p...

This fully funded PhD will investigate precision medicine for low back pain , with the aim of improving how healthcare decisions are made and identifying which treatments work best for particular patients. The project will combine causal inference and machine learning across nationwide health databases and clinical trial data. The student will develop research expertise in data-driven treatment evaluation, health data analytics and methods for understanding variation in treatment outcomes. Resea...

PhD position in Bioinformatics and Machine Learning for Infection and Antimicrobial Resistance Diagnostics at University of Inland Norway (Universitetet i Innlandet), Norway. This doctoral project sits at the interface of bioinformatics, machine learning, and medical diagnostics, with a focus on infection and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The topic is well suited to applicants interested in computational biology, data-driven diagnostic development, and the analysis of biological and clinical d...

The International Max Planck Research School for Translational Psychiatry (IMPRS-TP) offers upcoming fully funded PhD positions in neuroscience and translational psychiatry in Munich, Germany. The program also includes an integrated residency/PhD track for exceptional medical doctors. Research spans molecular, cellular, and systemic psychiatric research, including molecular medicine, neuroscience, clinical psychiatry, molecular genetics in animal models, neuroimaging, electrophysiology, behavior...

PhD position in equitable AI for breast cancer screening and risk prediction is available at the Department of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, in Solna, Sweden. The doctoral student will join the Computational Breast Imaging Group, led by Associate Professor Fredrik Strand. The project investigates whether artificial intelligence systems used in population-based mammography screening perform equitably across population groups and how disparities can be reduced. Research will examine A...

Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, invites applications for a full-time PhD position in oesophageal and gastric cancer research within the Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery research group. The doctoral project aims to reduce deaths from oesophago-gastric cancer. Research will examine medications that may affect tumour occurrence or recurrence after treatment, as well as survival-prediction models. The project uses data from a national cohort of patients who underwent oesophago-gastric canc...

The University of St Andrews is inviting applications for PhD opportunities in Statistics starting in the 2027/28 academic year. Projects span statistical ecology , statistical medicine and molecular biology , and statistical methodology and machine learning . Students will join the School of Mathematics and Statistics in St Andrews, Scotland, and may work on statistical theory and methods or collaborate with biologists, medical researchers, and environmental scientists. The research environment...

The University of Jyväskylä in Finland is recruiting a full-time, funded Doctoral Researcher in Disease Ecology for 42 months. The project will investigate how urbanisation and forest management shape wildlife–pathogen interactions and zoonotic disease risk. Using a One Health approach, the doctoral researcher will integrate ecological and environmental datasets with quantitative methods, contributing to research in disease ecology, quantitative ecology, epidemiology, biostatistics and public he...