The department of Pathology has an excellent reputation in pure biological and biomedical research and is offering a fully funded PhD studentship from October 2026 to work with Prof. Christina Zielinski, one of the Research Group Leaders in this large and vibrant Department. The project will be...
PhD studentships on offer in Cambridge and selected opportunities from elsewhere will be advertised here. You are also welcome to browse the research directory and contact potential supervisors directly.
Latest Studentship Opportunities
Starting in October 2026, a 4-year Research Studentship will be available, leading to a University of Cambridge PhD degree in the laboratory of Prof Ewan Smith.
Funded PhD Opportunity at the Department of...
Engineering plant rubisco enzymes through high-throughput enzyme assays and cryo-EM (Plant BioDesign PhD Cambridge project). Every year plants remove over 100 billion tons of carbon from the atmosphere through photosynthesis. Engineering photosynthesis is a key technological challenge for...
The Medical Research Council (MRC) Biostatistics Unit (BSU) is one of the largest groups of biostatisticians in Europe, and a major centre for research, training and knowledge transfer in biostatistics. We develop, apply and promote innovative statistical and data science approaches to advance...
There is an opportunity for a fully-funded combined 1-year MRes and 3-year PhD studentship in the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sensor Technologies and Applications for an Uncertain World (Sensor CDT), for a student eligible...
AZ funded non-clinical PhD studentship - Experimental and computational framework for optimising dosing strategies to mitigate T-cell exhaustion in T-cell engager therapies. T-cell engager (TCE) therapies are increasingly prevalent in the clinical pipeline of pharmaceutical companies. While...
Project title - Matchmaker: Prioritising the best cell line for expressing target proteins using CRISPR and machine learning. Applications are invited for a fully funded 4-year PhD studentship based in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, and the new AstraZeneca Discovery...