PhD studentship projects

Applications to our PhD studentship competition for funded entry in October 2025 must be submitted before 12 noon on 3rd December 2024. Invitations to interview will be sent out after 8th January 2025. Applicants must be available for interviews from 15th-17th January 2025. Interviews will be held remotely.

We are open for applications from self-funded students until August 2025. Find out How to Apply

Supervisor: Dragana Ahel & Ivan Ahel

Molecular mechanisms of genome stability and cancer

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Supervisor: Ivan Ahel

Regulation of genome stability and human disease

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Supervisor: Pedro Carvalho

Mechanisms of protein quality control in health and disease

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Supervisor: Sally Cowley

Exploring neurodegenerative disease-associated gene function in iPS-microglia

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Supervisor: Fumiko Esashi

Understanding dynamic centromeres

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Supervisor: Kevin Foster

Understanding and engineering the human microbiome

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Supervisor: Matthew Freeman

Rhomboid-like proteins: from mechanisms to human disease

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Supervisor: Natalia Gromak & Chris Norbury

Function of RNA/DNA hybrids in health and disease

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Supervisor: Ulrike Gruneberg

Molecular mechanisms safeguarding genome stability during mammalian cell division

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Supervisor: Monika Gullerova

The role of TIRR in kidney cancer

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Supervisor: Bass Hassan

Mechanism evaluation of synthetic lethality in cancers of mesenchyme.

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Supervisor: Anjali Hinch

The landscape of de novo mutations in humans 

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Supervisor: Girish Ram Mali

Chaperone mediated assembly of ciliary dynein motors

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Supervisor: Jordan Raff

Understanding the Principles of Organelle Biogenesis

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Supervisor: Anthony Roberts & Katerina Toropova

How membrane proteins are trafficked into cilia for sensory functions

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Supervisor: Sumana Sanyal

Investigating flavivirus biogenesis and immune evasion mechanisms

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Supervisor: Mathew Stracy

Understanding and eradicating antibiotic tolerant bacterial pathogens

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Supervisor: Christoph Tang

The biology of plasmids in human adapted pathogens

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Supervisor: Teresa Thurston

Molecular mechanisms and physiological consequences of bacterial virulence proteins

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Supervisor: Katerina Toropova & Anthony Roberts

Cryo-EM and tomography studies of dynein-2 motor action and regulation

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