PhD Opportunities in Bioengineering in United Kingdom

The Centre for Bioengineering & Biomedical Technologies at the University of Bath is advertising funding opportunities for new doctoral students from the Americas. The opportunity is relevant to prospective PhD applicants interested in bioengineering, biomedical engineering, biomedical technologies, and related interdisciplinary research. The post does not specify individual projects, supervisors, stipend levels, tuition coverage, or deadlines. Applicants should review the funding information on...

The University of Manchester is recruiting for two fully funded PhD projects combining machine learning, computational fluid dynamics, engineering design and pharmaceutical or vaccine manufacturing. PhD 1: Human-in-the-Loop Decision-Making for Lipid Nanoparticle Reactor Design. This project is part of the UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in Decision Making for Complex Systems, a collaboration between The University of Manchester and the University of Cambridge. It is supervised by Nausheen B...

[4-year Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership PhD studentship with tuition fees paid, a stipend of £21,805 per year (2026/27 rate), and a Research Training Support Grant of £5,000 per year.] PhD opportunity at the University of East Anglia and the Earlham Institute on Designing Plant Gene Expression with Explainable AI . This studentship sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, plant genomics, and engineering biology, asking whether explainable AI can discov...

PhD opportunity in Engineering Biology at the University of Bristol , offered in collaboration with Prof Dek Woolfson through the SWBio DTP . The project is titled Engineering co-translational protein assembly using de novo designed proteins (Project ID: 3544). It asks how proteins assemble while being synthesised on the ribosome, building on advances in protein structure prediction such as AlphaFold and focusing on the folding and assembly of de novo designed coiled-coil proteins during transla...

[Fully funded 4-year Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership PhD studentship including tuition fees, an annual stipend of £21,805 (2026/27 rate), and a Research Training Support Grant of £5,000 per year.] PhD studentship at the University of East Anglia in the Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Programme (NRPDTP): Rewiring Photosynthetic Pathways in a Purple Bacterium . This fully funded 4-year PhD project focuses on engineering the purple phototrophic ba...

Fully funded PhD opportunity in the University of Bath / University of Bristol (Bristol Vet School) partnership, starting in September 2027 through the SWBio DTP Hub Doctoral Training Partnership . The project is titled Using engineering biology to modulate toxin-antitoxin dynamics and the stability of multidrug resistance in important foodborne pathogens (Project 3659). This studentship sits at the intersection of engineering biology , synthetic biology , molecular biology , microbiology , and ...

Assistant Professor Nausheen Basha at The University of Manchester is recruiting for two fully funded PhD projects that combine machine learning , computational fluid dynamics , engineering design , and pharmaceutical/vaccine manufacturing . PhD 1: Human-in-the-Loop Decision-Making for Lipid Nanoparticle Reactor Design Supervision includes Omar Rivasplata (Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester). This project is part of the UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in Decision M...

[4-year Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership PhD DTP studentship; includes tuition fees paid directly to the University, a stipend of £21,805 for 2026/27, and a Research Training Support Grant of £5,000 per year.] PhD Studentship: Engineering Fitness in Disease-Resistant Crops at the University of East Anglia . This PhD studentship explores a major challenge in agricultural biotechnology: how to engineer crop disease resistance without compromising plant growth and yie...

[4-year Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership PhD studentship with tuition fees paid directly to the university, a stipend of £21,805 for 2026/27, and a Research Training Support Grant of £5,000 per year.] PhD Studentship: Engineering Biology to Decode Gene Regulatory Networks in Lateral Root Initiation at the University of East Anglia , working with the Guiziou Group at the Earlham Institute . This project sits at the intersection of engineering biology , plant science...