Postgraduate Courses and Studentships

Viruses that infect bacteria can be repurposed as programmable biological systems for targeting antimicrobial resistant (AMR) infections, a major global health challenge. These viral infection programs operate through coordinated gene expression modules that reconfigure the host cell. However, predicting and controlling their behaviour remains diff…

Applications are invited for a four year EPSRC IDLA studentship based in the MRC Toxicology Unit at the University of Cambridge, and with partners at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the company Emissions Analytics. This studentship will commence 1st October 2026 (MT26). As prevalence of electric vehicles increases in the transition to ne…

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 funded with support from an ERC CoG and the LEO Founda…

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 improving crop yield and resiliency as climate change makes …

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 for Home Fees at the University of Cambridge. This studentship will be funded by the industrial partner, AstraZeneca,…

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 TCEs are promising therapeutic agents due to their high p…

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 Centre in Cambridge. The project will be jointly supervis…