A fully funded 3.5 year Ph.D. studentship is available to UK nationals and outstanding international students, with Professors Lynn Gladden, Mick Mantle and Andy Sederman, to start 1 October 2025. Porous materials are central to the production of fuels, agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, clean...
Funding, job and studentship opportunities in synthetic and engineering biology both within Cambridge and externally.
Opportunities by Category
Funding Opportunities: internal and external grant funding opportunities and other sources of funding.
Job Opportunities: a list of current and past postdoc, lecturer and senior academic roles as well as roles in Cambridge-based companies and wider opportunitites across synthetic and engineering biology.
Internships: placements outside of academia in industry, policy organisations and other environments.
Postgraduate studentships: PhD studentships, Masters courses and other postgraduate placement opportunities.
Undergraduate placement opportunities: if you are looking for a summer placement or Part II or Part III project, we can signpost to relevant synthetic and/or engineering biology labs based on your interests. Please email coordinator@engbio.cam.ac.uk.
All Opportunities
'Somatic evolution of the immune response to chronic inflammation and liver cancer progression through single-cell multiomics' Applications are invited for a fully-funded 4-year PhD studentship based in the Department of Pathology at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Dr...
The Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS) has invited institutions to begin their internal triage processes for the Academy’s competitive...
Are you interested in research & innovation funding opportunities in the areas of food, bioeconomy, natural resources, agriculture and environment? Join the Horizon Europe Cluster 6 Information Days to learn more a bout the topics of the forthcoming Work Programme 2025.The event will cover...
The Institute of Metabolic Science at the University of Cambridge is pleased to invite applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate position to work with Prof Giles Yeo and Dr Loraine Tung. This role is supported by an industrial collaboration grant from AMGEN, a global leader in...
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work jointly with Prof. Steven F. Lee and Prof. Sir David Klenerman, FRS (Yusef Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) in a collaborative project with partners at the University of Oxford. This project aims to...
Applications are invited for a Research Assistant specialised in computational biology to join the group of Dr Matt Hoare within the Early Cancer Institute on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. This is an exciting opportunity to join an on-going collaboration between the Hoare lab at Cambridge and...
We are looking for a highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) with interest in commercialising scientific breakthroughs. The successful candidate will lead research on ERC PoC project PepVerse within Prof. Knowles' research group at the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry at the...
Applications are invited for a Post-doctoral Research Associate position in the group of Dr Sebastian Schornack (www.schornacklab.net, twitter: @dromius) at the Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU), Cambridge University, to study biochemical and cellar processes...
Applications are invited for a Research Associate position in the laboratory of Professor Luca Pellegrini, in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.The aim of the project is to elucidate key molecular mechanisms of DNA synthesis by the human replisome, the dynamic multi-protein...
A creative postdoctoral researcher with experimental or computational expertise is sought to work in Mark Howarth's group on a project funded by MRC at Cambridge University Department of Pharmacology. The Howarth group have broad interests, including synthetic biology, biotechnology and...
We are seeking an ambitious and talented postdoctoral research associate to join our team to work on a computational project focussed on predicting TDP-43 mutant phase separation and aggregation in the context of elucidating the molecular driving forces behind motor neurone disease. This project...
Applications are invited for two Assistant/Associate Professorships in Computational Biology to commence on 1 April 2026 or shortly thereafter. One post is to be held in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) and the other is a joint post between DAMTP and the...
This scheme aims to support the most talented early career researchers and innovators who are transitioning to or establishing research
The Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) programme allows a UK registered business or not for profit organisation, (which we will refer to collectively as the ‘business partner’ from now on) to partner with a ‘knowledge base partner’, which is either a UK...
Applications are now open for EnterpriseTECH 2025/26, an entrepreneurship programme for researchers interested in exploring commercialisation and innovation. The programme is open to PhD students, postdocs, university staff, and industry professionals,...
Research Fellowships are awarded to outstanding early-career researchers to support them to become future research leaders in engineering. Applicants must have been awarded their PhD in the last four years, and the Research Fellowship must be held at a UK...
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Apply for funding to carry out independent research within a host laboratory and gain leadership skills. You must demonstrate appropriate and relevant research, technical or innovation experience. You are not eligible to apply if you hold or have held a post or position at lecturer level (or...
The ESRC have announced their New Investigator Grant scheme. This scheme is suitable for early career researchers who have yet to make the transition to be an...
Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) are looking to fund bold ideas within the Programmable Plants opportunity space with up to £500k each. ...
St John’s College intends to appoint up to eight...
5050 is a free, 16-week programme designed to help great scientists and engineers become great founders. It helps answer: How do I turn breakthrough science into a business? What do I need to make a startup idea work? Is entrepreneurship for me? Am I ready to be a founder?...
UKRI has announced the Doctoral Focal Awards in AI...
Trinity College and the University of Cambridge’s new £48 million programme enabling fully funded PhDs has been launched. It is seeking the brightest minds from across the world to conduct ground-breaking research, creating the next generation of pioneering treatments, technology and services....
Are you ready to take the next step in advancing your bioscience research towards impact? BBSRC Follow-on Fund is now open! Apply by 26 March for up to £800,000 to progress your research towards innovation for a new...
This funding scheme supports early-career researchers from any discipline to establish their research identity and lead innovative projects that advance understanding of human life, health, and wellbeing....
We are excited to announce that the Mastercard Foundation and University of Cambridge Climate Resilience and Sustainability Research Fund 2025 Call is now open. This initiative aims to foster collaborative research between Africa and Cambridge based researchers with research...
The Carbon Technology Research Foundation is seeking to identify and then fund research into specific scientific problems which are inhibiting the progress of biotechnological routes to greenhouse gas removals from the atmosphere and oceans.
This is a two-phase...
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