PhD Opportunities in Genomics in United Kingdom

Google DeepMind’s Genomics team in London is hiring a Student Researcher for 2027 through the Student Researcher Program. The opportunity is designed for PhD students interested in applying advanced machine-learning methods to genomic models. The research focus combines machine learning, post-training and reinforcement learning with genomics. The successful researcher will contribute to projects exploring how these methods can be used to develop or improve models for genomic applications, within...

The Wellcome Sanger Institute is inviting applications for its 4-year PhD Programme, beginning on 1 October 2027 at the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. The programme is designed for students interested in genomics, genome research, genetics, molecular biology, bioinformatics and biomedical science. At least 12 funded PhD studentships are available on a competitive basis. Successful students receive full financial support, including University of Cambridge tuiti...

Alexandre Almeida, Group Leader at the University of Cambridge, is inviting expressions of interest from prospective PhD students for an October 2027 intake. The research opportunity focuses on the human gut microbiome at the intersection of bioinformatics, genomics, multi-omics and artificial intelligence . Projects may also include experimental work, offering opportunities to combine computational and laboratory-based approaches to investigate microbiome biology. Both home and international st...

[Competition-funded 4-year PhD studentship. Covers UK tuition fees and a stipend at the standard UKRI rate. International students have the fee difference covered by university funding.] PhD studentship at the University of Birmingham in the Department of Cancer and Genomics Sciences, joining the group of Dr Tianyi Zhang and Dr Rui Monteiro. This 4-year, competition-funded project is offered through the Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership and is open to UK, EU, and internationa...

[Fees plus stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] PhD studentship at the University of Exeter on next-generation machine learning for predicting genetic interactions in cancer, with a specific focus on pancreatic cancer. The project sits at the interface of computational genomics, machine learning, and cancer biology, and is funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC). The research tackles a major challenge in oncology: identifying genetic interactions, including synthetic lethality, that on...

[Fully funded studentship covering fees, maintenance stipend (£21,805 p.a. for 2026/27), and a research training and support grant (RTSG). Limited support is available for international applicants via waived home/international fee difference; relocation, visa, and health surcharge costs are not covered.] PhD Studentship at the University of East Anglia focusing on how bacterial hosts control domesticated viral machines to drive horizontal gene transfer in marine environments. This project explor...

[4-year fully funded Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership PhD studentship including payment of tuition fees, a stipend for living expenses (£21,805 for 2026/27), and a Research Training Support Grant of £5,000 per year.] PhD Studentship at the University of East Anglia, based within the Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Programme (NRPDTP), investigating how unusual DNA and RNA structures called G-quadruplexes (G4s) regulate fungal growth and infection...

[Funding of fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] This is a fully funded PhD studentship at the University of Exeter focused on decoding cellular diversity in the human brain and functionally annotating neuronal subtypes across development and disease. The project addresses a major challenge in neuroscience: while single-cell RNA sequencing has revealed many excitatory and inhibitory neuronal subtypes, the regulatory mechanisms that establish and maintain these identities are sti...

PhD opportunity in the lab of Ines Cebola at Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. The project is titled “From genetic risk to disease mechanism: functional genomics of steatotic (fatty) liver disease” and is a 4-year fully funded studentship . It uses human liver models , CRISPR functional genomics , and computational approaches to investigate what disease-associated noncoding variants do and how they contribute to disease. This studentship is funded through the UK Human Functional Gen...