Engineering Biology in Cambridge
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.
Apply for funding to pursue an ambitious, high risk and high reward curiosity-driven project in environmental research. This funding opportunity is open to research groups and individuals. Your research project must address a significant environmental science question, but we welcome...
The Isaac Science project are looking for a biologist/biochemist who is passionate about teaching and widening participation at university to join the Isaac team. The role holder will work as part of the Isaac team of physicists, mathematicians, chemist and biologist, to support students...
Applications are invited for a Research Associate position in the group of Dr Maria P. Alcolea within the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute (CSCI) and PDN Department at University of Cambridge. We are seeking an enthusiastic Research Associate to study epithelial stem cell fate plasticity in the...
Applications are invited for a Doctoral Candidate in SHIELD (Strategies for Healing Implant-Associated Infections and Enhancing Longevity in Devices) Doctoral Network. The candidate would be working with Professors Serena Best and Ruth Cameron at the Cambridge Centre for Medical Materials in the...
Applications are invited for a University Assistant/Associate Professorship in Materials Engineering. The successful applicant will contribute to research in at least one of the following areas from a materials engineering perspective: energy systems, advanced manufacturing and materials,...
Apply for a fellowship to undertake innovative, impact-focused research using smart data. Projects should address a significant real-world challenge which is relevant to the UK. Projects must be clearly
We are seeking an enthusiastic and independent full-time Research Assistant to join the Borodavka group in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge. This position offers an excellent opportunity for a graduate in Biochemistry or Molecular Biology...
We are looking to appoint a Research Assistant to join the Patil lab at the MRC Toxicology Unit. The Patil lab investigates the physiology of microorganisms in the context of complex microbial communities, such as the human gut microbiome. This role will use a combination of microbiological,...
The Mateo Sanchez lab, located in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, is seeking one postdoctoral research associate. The researcher will work on the development of molecular tools for the mapping and manipulation of active neuronal circuits underlying specific behaviours...
We are seeking an enthusiastic and independent Research Associate to join our growing research in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge. The role holder will work on a project to develop a 3D in vitro model of the gastrointestinal tract....
We are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic Research Assistant to join the laboratory of Professor Joanne Jones in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge. Our research uses cutting-edge omics approaches to investigate the human immune system and to...
The University of Cambridge is seeking an enthusiastic research assistant to join Dr Dami Collier's group and Dr Nerea Irigoyen's group in the Department of Pathology, working on cutting-edge science in Neuroscience and Virology. Work in the Collier lab focuses...
Clare Baker's lab (https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/clare-baker) is based in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. The lab studies the development of vertebrate electrosensory...
The Tamura Lab for Circuit Physiology of Cognition is based in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience (PDN) of the University of Cambridge. Why can we easily notice a friend in a crowd and say 'Hello'? Previous neurophysiological studies have revealed how visual inputs are...
We are pleased to advertise a research assistant position within the Genomic Disorders and Cognitive Development programme, led by Dr Kate D. Baker. The programme takes an interdisciplinary approach to characterising phenotypes and understanding mechanisms in neurodevelopmental disorders of...
Dr Raza Ali wishes to recruit a student to work on the project entitled: "Systems pathology of the breast tumour microenvironment in obesity". For further information about the research group, including their most recent publications, please visit their website at...
The British Academy (BA) have now announced their popular...
Apply for funding to undertake ambitious transdisciplinary research to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR). You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding. You must have submitted a notification of intent to apply for...
The programme welcomes applications from anyone with an existing UK-registered EngBio startup in its very early stages or individuals in a position to launch one. The EngBio technology at the core of the venture should be applicable to one or more of the following application areas:
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,...
We are offering small grants for Cambridge University researchers pursuing innovative applications of AI in research or real-world contexts with a focus on inter and multidisciplinary collaboration. This year applications are open under three categories:
Jointly awarded by the Royal Society, the British Academy and the Royal Academy of Engineering, and supported generously by the Leverhulme Trust, the APEX Awards offer established independent researchers the opportunity to pursue interdisciplinary and...
The National Institute for Health and Care Research’s Team Science Camp is now open for applications. It aims to bring together researchers interested in decarbonising healthcare, social care, and research systems from various disciplines, career stages and...
The MRC Toxicology Unit is looking to appoint one/two Research Assistants to join the Thaventhiran lab. These positions are aimed at candidates seeking research experience to strengthen their higher degree applications. The positions will be directly supervised and mentored by post-doctoral...
Are you passionate about driving breakthroughs in breast cancer research? Join our team at the Precision Breast Cancer Institute (PBCI), led by Professor Jean Abraham, and make a real impact on beating breast cancer. We're seeking a talented and highly motivated bioinformatician to revolutionise...
We invite applications for a fully-funded at Home fees 4-year PhD studentship project to investigate a newly discovered mechanism of translational regulation in bacteria,
...The European Union has launched the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2025, with a committed focus on deepening EU-Africa cooperation in Research and Innovation (R&I). This includes the publication of Africa Initiative III, which allocates €500.5 million...
ERC Advanced Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are already established research leaders with a recognised track record of research achievements. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and...
The University is pleased to invite project proposals for inclusion in the next round of the...
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