Studentships: self-funded and funded PhD projects

There are 110 self-funded or funded PhD studentship.

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Alterations in reparative dentinogenesis with ageing, gender and genetic predisposition

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Analysing the role of statins in cardiovascular protection

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Thursday 16th January 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Analysis of the role of liver sinusoidal endothelial cells in methotrexate-induced liver toxicity

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 29th November 2024
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Assessing the physical impact of a six-week yoga intervention on brain structure, function, cognition and inflammatory profile in healthy volunteers

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Monday 6th January 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Automated solid state synthesis robotic workflow

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Sunday 31st August 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof M Rosseinsky Dr Luke Daniels Dr T Manning
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

B

Biological pathways supporting the formation and function of chromatin (Scholarship)

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 8th February 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

C

Cardiac Harmony: Modelling Heart Beats with Stem Cells and Code

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Cardiovascular and Neuromuscular Functions around the Clock: Harnessing Protective Endogenous Mechanisms towards Smarter Design of Novel Therapies and Interventions

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Chromatin regulation of oncogenic transcription and replication stress: mechanism and functional implications in acute myeloid leukemia

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Tuesday 18th March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Combining genome-scale metabolic models and multi-omics data for a system level understanding of bacteria

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 22nd March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Francesco Del-Carratore Prof Roy Goodacre Prof Steve Paterson
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Control of bone shape and function by the extracellular matrix Fibrillin-1

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

D

Designing and characterising complex fluids for advanced materials manufacturing using advanced imaging techniques, rheology and flow experiments.

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Sunday 1st December 2024
  • Subject area: Engineering and Planning
  • Supervisors: Dr E García-Tuñón Dr William Sharratt
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

Determination of the non-coding RNAs in the knee joint tissues of dogs at differing risk to cranial cruciate ligament rupture.

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Friday 28th February 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Determining metabolic reprogramming events in stem cells in response to inflammatory disease phenotype

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Determining the role of mitochondrial DNA variation in hepatic pathways and its impact on physiology, pharmacology and toxicology: a combined in vitro and bioinformatic approach.

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Wednesday 30th July 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Amy Chadwick Dr Dan Carr Dr Joanna Elson (Joanna.elson@newcastle.ac.uk)
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Developing an in silico method for endodontic restoration of human molar teeth

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Friday 11th April 2025
  • Subject area: Engineering and Planning

Developing Approaches to Surveillance for Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in the Equine population

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Tuesday 3rd December 2024
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Development and validation of the Epilepsy-Heart syndrome: a focus on ictal asystole and developing evidence-based national consensus guidelines

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Monday 2nd December 2024
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Gashirai Mbizvo Prof Gregory Lip Prof Tony Marson Prof Ian Buchan
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Discovery of Functional Inorganic Materials for Net Zero Applications using High-Throughput Synthesis

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Tuesday 31st December 2024
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences

Discovery of new inorganic materials for net zero applications

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Sunday 31st August 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof M Rosseinsky Dr Luke Daniels
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

Do patients with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears demonstrate muscle strength deficits of the hip, knee, and ankle muscles?

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

E

Elucidation of a new pathological mechanism for brittle bone disease

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Engineered nanomaterials for safe sustainable water purification

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Thursday 9th January 2025
  • Subject area: Engineering and Planning

Engineering more water-use efficient crops: functional genomics of CO2 fixation during Crassulacean acid metabolism

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 30th November 2024
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Enzymes for Sustainable Amide Synthesis Under Aqueous Conditions for Pharmaceutical Applications

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Thursday 1st May 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof Andrew Carnell Prof Dan Rigden Dr Jesus Enrique Salcedo Sora
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

Establishing the biomarker potential of extracellular RNA structure in chronic diseases

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Friday 9th May 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Simon Tew
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Examining how post-transcriptional gene regulation mechanisms affect stem cell function

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 30th November 2024
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Simon Tew David Turner Rachel Oldershaw
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Expanding the Chemical Universe: 3D Features Driving Next-Gen Synthesis Predictions

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 20th December 2024
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Anthony Bradley John Ward Fergus Imrie
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

Experimental Discovery of New Ionic Conducting Materials

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Sunday 31st August 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof M Rosseinsky Dr Luke Daniels Dr T Manning
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

Exploiting Deep Learning-based protein structure prediction for function annotation and structural biology

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 15th February 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof D J Rigden Dr R Keegan
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Exploring the roles of dynamic atypical protein phosphorylation in cancer

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Wednesday 5th February 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Exploring the therapeutic potential of calmodulin in the context of inherited cardiac arrhythmia

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 6th December 2024
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Nordine Helassa Prof Caroline Dart
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

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Green electrospun nanofiber membranes for water treatment

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Monday 31st March 2025
  • Subject area: Engineering and Planning
  • Supervisors: Prof Raechelle D'Sa
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

H

High power laser development

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Tuesday 31st December 2024
  • Subject area: Engineering and Planning

High speed ‘laminar’ flows for laser and hypersonic applications.

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Tuesday 31st December 2024
  • Subject area: Engineering and Planning
  • Supervisors: Dr Kirsty McKay Prof Jason Ralph
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

High-throughput exploration of multicomponent metal organic frameworks (MOFs)

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Sunday 31st August 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof M Rosseinsky Dr A Katsoulidis
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

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Identifying age-related extracellular microenvironment in dental tissues

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Monday 10th March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Improving chemical and immunological assessment to drive safer development of the new breed of drugs: PROTACS

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Friday 28th March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Improving patient outcomes following mandibular reconstruction after oral cancer: novel finite element methods for better surgical design

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Investigating how tumour associated macrophages affect cancer metastasis and response to therapies

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 15th February 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Investigating local invasion in primary and secondary brain tumours

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Monday 2nd December 2024
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Investigating the cellular functions of Trappc9 in brain development and microcephaly

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Wednesday 1st January 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Investigating the impact of galectin-ligand interaction on cancer cell resistance to chemotherapeutic treatment

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Investigating the metabolic response of low and high dietary vitamin A intake in humans using cell and mammal models

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Tuesday 31st December 2024
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof Warwick Dunn Prof Georg Lietz
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Investigating the regulation of neutrophil gene expression by intracellular signalling and small non-coding RNAs

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Investigating the role of Aquaporins in age related diseases

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Investigating the role of neutrophil-mediated tissue damage in a model of lupus nephritis

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Investigating the role of oxidative metabolites in joint destruction in osteoarthritis

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

L

LYONS-JONES Scholarship PhD programme within the Institute of Systems, Integrative and Molecular Biology

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 31st January 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: A supervisor will be allocated to you
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

M

Machine Learning for LDEW target recognition and line-of-sight stabilisation.

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Tuesday 31st December 2024
  • Subject area: Engineering and Planning
  • Supervisors: Dr Kirsty Mckay Prof J Ralph
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

Mathematical Modelling of Cell Shape and Localised Cell growth.

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Friday 1st August 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Natasha Savage
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Microbial Induced Electrochemistry at the Local Site and Single Cell Level

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Sunday 15th June 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences

Molecular mechanisms underpinning A. baumannii virulence

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Sunday 1st June 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Christopher Harding Prof Aras Kadioglu
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

Morphology, motion, and mechanics of vertebral joints in fish

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: A novel theragnostic approach for treating brain tumours

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 13th December 2024
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Professor Harish Poptani Dr Marco Giardiello Prof P Murray
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Ageing-related susceptibility to pneumococcal pneumonia

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 13th December 2024
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof Aras Kadioglu Dr Rong Xu Dr Franz Puttur
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Bioengineering a protein nanocage as a novel drug and antigen vaccine delivery platform for cancer therapeutics

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 13th December 2024
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof LN Liu Prof Natalia Savelyeva Prof L Yu
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Characterization of immunological responses in patients with liver cancer to predict immunotherapy efficacy and immune-related adverse events

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 13th December 2024
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Xiaoli Meng Dr D Naisbitt Prof Dan Palmer Dr Sean Hammond
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Cracking the Mitochondrial Code: New Frontiers in Tackling Linezolid Toxicity for Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 13th December 2024
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Amy Chadwick Dr Joanna Elson
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Decoding Shank3: New Insights into neuronal maintenance and neurodegeneration via structural analysis and Drosophila models

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 13th December 2024
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Igor Barsukov Dr N Sanchez-Soriano
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Development of a biocompatible and bioabsorbable mechanical metamaterial for bone fixation

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 13th December 2024
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Rosti Readioff Dr Pooya Sareh
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Dissecting diversity of complement-binding cell surface proteins to enhance leptospiral vaccine efficacy

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 13th December 2024
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof Nicholas Evans Prof D J Rigden Dr Hayley Crosby-Durrani
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Exploring the anti-fibrotic activity and underlying molecular mechanisms of targeted compounds in patient derived models of Dupuytren’ disease and cancer

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 13th December 2024
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Elizabeth Laird Prof Daniel Palmer Dr Elaine Kilgour
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Identification of accessible biomarkers reflecting drug stimulation of the NRF2 antioxidant pathway in humans

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 13th December 2024
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Professor Ian Copple Prof A Jones
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Migration of Pseudomonas aeruginosa towards antibiotics: mechanisms and consequences

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 13th December 2024
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Jamie Wheeler Dr William Durham Prof. Aras Kadioglu
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Mitochondrial quality control for a healthy brain

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 13th December 2024
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof M Clague Prof S Urbé Prof M Trost
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Regulation of transcription replication conflicts in cancer: mechanism and functional implications in acute myeloid leukemia

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 13th December 2024
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Manolis Papamichos Chronakis Prof D MacEwan Dr A Kanhere
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Signalling systems in Pseudomonas: understanding new routes to prevent Pseudomonas aeruginosa adaptation to the lungs

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 13th December 2024
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof Jo Fothergill Prof Claire Eyers
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: The Biting-Edge of AI – Predicting Mosquito Vector Competence for Viruses

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 13th December 2024
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Marcus Blagrove
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: The role of phosphodiesterases (PDEs) in atrial IP3 signaling: Exploring the potential of utilizing PDEs as therapies for atrial fibrillation

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 13th December 2024
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr R Burton Prof G Lip Prof H Poptani
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Therapeutics for Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 13th December 2024
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof J Stewart Prof Julian Hiscox Prof Anja Kipar
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Uncovering the molecular mechanisms underpinning A. baumannii virulence

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 13th December 2024
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Christopher Harding Prof A Kadioglu Dr Anton Calabrese
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Understanding how diabetes affects retinal cell crosstalk

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 13th December 2024
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Professor Reinhold J. Medina
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Understanding skeletal tissue responses to sex and menopause in osteoarthritis

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 13th December 2024
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr B Poulet Dr R Readioff Prof E Comerford
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Understanding the mechanisms of norovirus replication

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 13th December 2024
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr E Emmott Dr Dominic Byrne Prof A Darby
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Unveiling novel interactions between the human complement system and pathogenic Neisseria

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 13th December 2024
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr. Hayley Lavender Prof. Kevin Marchbank Prof. Aras Kadioglu
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Widening the ‘NET’ to identify new treatments for bronchiectasis

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 13th December 2024
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr HL Wright Dr Freddy Frost Dr E Emmott Dr A De Soyza
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

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New approaches to flocculator design in water treatment

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Wednesday 1st January 2025
  • Subject area: Engineering and Planning

NIHR CLEAN-Air(Africa) Unit: Addressing Disease Burden from Reliance on Polluting Household and Institutional Energy in sub-Saharan Africa

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 29th November 2024
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof Dan Pope Dr Vasilis Matthaios Dr Ghislaine Rosa Dr Jonny Higham
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

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Organic Radicals and Diradicaloid for Single-Molecule Electronics and Quantum Information Processing

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Tuesday 30th September 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof. Andrea Vezzoli Dr Amit Sil
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

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Preclinical testing of collagen synthesis inhibitors for fibrotic disease

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Probing Death Decisions from Morphogen Gradient Fields

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 5th April 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Protecting cells from mechanical stress: A novel role of cell-surface receptor LRP1 in extracellular matrix- nuclei communication

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Monday 10th March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Protecting cells from mechanical stress: A novel role of cell-surface receptor LRP1 in extracellular matrix- nuclei communication.

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Monday 10th March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Kazuhiro Yamamoto
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Putting a brain in the mobile robotic chemist

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Monday 31st March 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences

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RNA therapy development for inherited eye diseases

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Friday 1st August 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Kevin Hamill
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

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Single-Molecule Electroluminescent Devices as Single-Photon Sources

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Tuesday 30th September 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof. Andrea Vezzoli Dr Amit Sil
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

Solution synthesis of multi-anion functional materials

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Sunday 31st August 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof M J Rosseinsky Dr Luke Daniels
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

Studentships in Theoretical Computer Science

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Monday 31st March 2025
  • Subject area: Maths and Computing
  • Supervisors: Any academic of the department of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

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The effect of low protein diet on the development of the neuromuscular system

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

The evolution of large brains and complex cognition across animal taxa

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Friday 28th March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

The nexus between climate change, extreme air pollution events and public health – Towards a holistic approach

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Wednesday 31st December 2025
  • Subject area: Social Science and Health

The Role of Nutrition and Exercise in Physical and Cognitive Function (such as sarcopenia and frailty), utilizing clinical, metabolomic, proteomic, and gut microbiota data

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

The Shape of Things to Come: Personalized 3D Printed Medicines

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Monday 31st March 2025
  • Subject area: Engineering and Planning
  • Supervisors: Prof Raechelle D'Sa
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine approaches to understand and treat eye disease

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Sunday 31st August 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Carl Sheridan Dr Neeru Vallabh Dr Lucy Bosworth
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Translating Deep Learning protein bioinformatics methods to accelerate structural determination by X-ray crystallography

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Thursday 14th August 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof Daniel Rigden Dr Ronan Keegan Dr David McDonagh
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

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Uncovering the mechanochemical signalling inputs that drive gastruloid axial patterning

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr David Turner
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Understanding the barriers to healthcare for women with chronic pelvic pain

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Selina Johnson Prof Helen Poole Dr Emma Evans
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Urokinase-plasminogen activator as a target to block osteoarthritic cartilage destruction

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Using Causal inference methods for making and using medicines better

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 29th November 2024
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Professor Reecha Sofat Dr Vicky Garfield
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

Using pre-clinical models of disease to define new targets to slow joint degeneration in osteoarthritis

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

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Vaccine development for important spirochaetal diseases of cattle

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 31st May 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof. Nicholas Evans
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

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What Lurks Beneath: Integrating the physical and chemical signals of magma ascent for enhanced volcanic eruption forecasting

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 24th January 2025
  • Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
  • Supervisors: Prof. Janine Kavanagh Dr. Katy Chamberlain Dr. Pablo Gonzalez Dr. Michael Poland
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

Why do cancers cells re-express meiotic SYCP1 protein?

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Monday 4th August 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences