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PhD fellowship: Deciphering host-pathogen interplay by utilizing biostructure prediction and New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) to engineer durable disease resistance in plants
Three-year PhD fellowship funded by a DFF project in collaboration with the University of Copenhagen; employment as academic…9 November 2026Closed 5 days agoOpen to internationalClosedPhD project: Optical probing of oxygen levels in tissue, development and application during ultra-fast FLASH radiotherapy
Call for a fully financed PhD fellowship; salary and terms of employment follow the applicable collective agreement.9 November 2026Closed 5 days agoOpen to internationalClosedPhD student in Mixed Ionic-Electronic Materials for Thermal Energy Harvesting, ERC Starting Grant HEAT-BRIDGE (ref LiU-2026-03809)
SEK 35,300 a month starting salary for PhD students, stated on the advert; the advert adds that the level is raised at this year's annual salary review in October and, for the sibling position, that the salary is revised each October and again when the student reaches 30 and 60 per cent completion of the doctorate9 November 2026Closed 5 days agoOpen to internationalClosedPhD student in Ionic Thermoelectrics and Electrochemistry for Thermal Energy Harvesting, ERC Starting Grant HEAT-BRIDGE (ref LiU-2026-03808)
SEK 35,300 a month starting salary for PhD students, stated on the advert; the advert adds that the level is raised at this year's annual salary review in October and, for the sibling position, that the salary is revised each October and again when the student reaches 30 and 60 per cent completion of the doctorate9 November 2026Closed 5 days agoOpen to internationalClosedSainsbury Wellcome Centre PhD Programme in Neuroscience, September 2027 intake
GBP 30,8399 November 2026Closed 5 days agoOpen to internationalClosedPromovendus Cardiogenetica: Cardiomyopathie en risicovoorspelling (PhD candidate, cardiogenetics, MIRACLE-DCM project; vacancy ID 3801)
EUR 3,2048 November 2026Closed 6 days agoDomestic applicants onlyClosedPhD Candidate, Spatial multi-omics and single cell analysis of human diseases (M4i Institute), ID 3853
EUR 3,2048 November 2026Closed 6 days agoOpen to internationalClosedPhD position: multisynaptic plasticity in dendrites
A salaried PhD contract of 4 years at 1.0 FTE or 5 years at 0.8 FTE, starting with…8 November 2026Closed 6 days agoEligibility not statedClosedPhD fellowship in antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) engineering: internalization and lysosomal delivery
A salaried 3-year PhD fellowship at BRIC, part of a Novo Nordisk Foundation Distinguished Innovator project.6 November 2026Closed 8 days agoEligibility not statedClosedPhD position to resolve structural ribosome heterogeneity in the human malaria parasite, Parasite RNA Biology group (Baumgarten Lab)
Fully funded 3-year PhD position; the PhD starts in the second half of 2027.6 November 2026Closed 8 days agoEligibility not statedClosedCancer Research UK Manchester Institute 4-year PhD studentships, 2027/28 entry
tax-free stipend £22,894 per annum + tuition fees + bench fees6 November 2026Closed 8 days agoOpen to internationalClosedPhD student in Medical Science: single-cell genomics of treatment resistance in leukemia (ref BKV-2026-00842)
SEK 33,700 per month (2026 salary level, starting salary)5 November 2026Closed 9 days agoEligibility not statedClosedDoctoral Clinical Fellows programme 2027 (three-year fully funded PhD fellowship for clinicians)
A place on the Crick PhD programme plus a three-year fully funded fellowship that covers a salary matched…4 November 2026Closed 10 days agoOpen to internationalClosedPhD position in RNA structure computational analysis neural sublocalization of transcripts
DKK 31,8504 November 2026Closed 10 days agoOpen to internationalClosedPhD fellowship in Veterinary Virology (cross-reactive vaccines for swine influenza A virus)
DKK 27,8004 November 2026Closed 10 days agoOpen to internationalClosedOffice of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program, 2026 Solicitation 2
USD 3,600/month4 November 2026Closed 10 days agoDomestic applicants onlyClosedDoctorate Fellowship in Physiology, efferent branch of the anti-inflammatory reflex in sepsis (FAPESP vacancy 9940)
R$ 5.790,003 November 2026Closed 11 days agoEligibility not statedClosedDoctorate Fellowship in Physiology, afferent branch of the anti-inflammatory reflex in sepsis (FAPESP vacancy 9939)
R$ 5.790,003 November 2026Closed 11 days agoEligibility not statedClosedDoctoral scholarship holder endocrine disruptor-mediated neurotoxicity (NeXED MSCA Doctoral Network)
Employed full-time for 24 months on the MSCA Doctoral Network project, with at least 12 further months of…3 November 2026Closed 11 days agoEligibility not statedClosedCrick PhD Studentship, 2027 entry (PhD student recruitment route)
GBP 27,715 per year for four years, plus fees and research costs3 November 2026Closed 11 days agoOpen to internationalClosedFuture Leaders in Biomedical Sciences Scholarships, 2027 scholarships
GBP 27,7153 November 2026Closed 11 days agoOpen to internationalClosedCrick PhD student recruitment, 2027 PhD programme
GBP 27,7153 November 2026Closed 11 days agoOpen to internationalClosedCologne Graduate School of Ageing Research (CGA) PhD programme, class of 2027
Every PhD student gets an employment contract of at least three years with social benefits, paid at 65…3 November 2026Closed 11 days agoOpen to internationalClosedPhD: Developing green facades for building insulation and enhancing urban biodiversity (BIO-SKIN)
A PhD in the BIO-SKIN project, embedded in the Biosystematics Group and the Laboratory of Entomology and supervised…2 November 2026Closed 12 days agoOpen to internationalWeekly funding email
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