PhD Studentships

PhD Studentship in Cilia and Ciliary Signalling in Polycystic Kidney Disease

The Tanos Laboratory at Brunel University London is offering a fully funded PhD studentship to carry out research on the role of cilia and ciliary signalling in polycystic kidney disease (PKD).

College / Directorate: College of Health, Medicine & Life Sciences Posted Date:22/05/2023 Closing Date:03/07/2023 Ref No:3888

PhD Studentship in Quantitative Structure-retention Relationships Models

PhD studentship in quantitative structure-retention relationships models to predict gradient high-performance liquid chromatography retention time

College / Directorate: College of Health, Medicine & Life Sciences Posted Date:22/05/2023 Closing Date:30/06/2023 Ref No:3880

PhD Studentship to study Cilia and Ciliary Signalling in Lung Cancer

The Tanos Laboratory at Brunel University London is offering a fully funded PhD studentship to carry out research on the role of cilia and ciliary signalling in cancer maintenance and progression.

College / Directorate: College of Health, Medicine & Life Sciences Posted Date:22/05/2023 Closing Date:03/07/2023 Ref No:3887

PhD Studentship in The Effects of Environmental Heat Stress in Older Women

The PhD studentship will help to characterise pulmonary and thermoregulatory responses, as well as functional consequences of environmental heat stress during prolonged exercise in older men and women.

College / Directorate: College of Health, Medicine & Life Sciences Posted Date:18/04/2023 Closing Date:07/06/2023 Ref No:3800

PhD Studentship in attention allocation impact in older adults’ when walking

The College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences at Brunel University London is offering a fully-funded Dean’s PhD studentship to investigate how attention allocation influences risk of falling in older adults.

College / Directorate: College of Health, Medicine & Life Sciences Posted Date:18/04/2023 Closing Date:07/06/2023 Ref No:3802

PhD Studentship in developing non-mammalian pre-clinical screening tool

The PhD studentship will involve developing and characterising a novel model of stroke in zebrafish to investigate complex pathophysiological processes using cutting-edge in-vivo imaging and behavioural profiling methods available in our laboratories and to assess its potential to enhance the current stroke drug discovery and pre-clinical development strategies. 

College / Directorate: College of Health, Medicine & Life Sciences Posted Date:18/04/2023 Closing Date:07/06/2023 Ref No:3801

PhD Studentship On The Psychology Of Fertility Decline And Early Parenting

The PhD studentship will involve a mixed-methods approach, including local ‘field’ work using interview and observational methods at reproductive clinics, children’s centres, and other organisations, as well as online anonymous survey methods.

College / Directorate: College of Health, Medicine & Life Sciences Posted Date:28/03/2023 Closing Date:07/06/2023 Ref No:3777

PhD Studentship The Impact of Disease-Specific Lamin A Mutations

CHMLS at Brunel University London is offering a fully funded PhD studentship to investigate the effects of lamin A mutations, relevant in laminopathies, in inducing alterations to the nuclear envelope. The project will focus on lamin A mutations most prevalent in Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome, Familial Partial Lipodystrophies and Dilated Cardiomyopathies, and employ genome-wide and high-resolution imaging techniques to study how the mutations affect the nuclear lamina and nuclear pore complexes’ structure and function, specifically the organisation of chromatin at the nuclear periphery. This project will also generate new model cell-lines for analysing new, repurposed and gene editing treatments.

Based in and funded by the College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, this studentship offers a full-time annual London rate stipend estimated at £20,551 plus Home/EU tuition fees, for a maximum of 36 months. Bench fees are supported by the studentship up to £5000/pa.

College / Directorate: College of Health, Medicine & Life Sciences Posted Date:28/03/2023 Closing Date:07/06/2023 Ref No:3776

PhD Studentship in Caesarean Section Infections

The Centre for Inflammation Research and Translational Medicine is offering a fully funded PhD studentship to investigate novel therapeutic interventions to tackle caesarean section (C-section) infections. 15% of women globally who undergo a C-section delivery will experience an infection of the wound. Subsequently, mothers will experience severe pain, compromised mobility or even death. This PhD will develop novel strategies to prevent and/or treat C-section infections.

Based in and funded by the College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences (CHMLS), this studentship offers a full-time annual London rate stipend estimated at £20,551 plus Home/EU tuition fees, for a maximum of 36 months. The successful candidate will benefit from the support of Brunel Medical School which has established connections with local NHS Trusts and clinicians.

College / Directorate: College of Health, Medicine & Life Sciences Posted Date:28/03/2023 Closing Date:07/06/2023 Ref No:3774

PhD Studentship in: How common variations in our DNA affect cancer risk

The PhD studentship will investigate the mechanistic effects of DNA variants in CHRDL2 and POLD3, and how they change gene expression to increase bowel cancer risk. The student will explore the balance of CHRDL2 and POLD3 splice variants in colorectal cancer cell-lines in the laboratory, and in publicly available patient data. They will use minigenes expressed in cancer cells to identify DNA variants that modify splicing and the ratio of splice isoforms. Functional roles of splice isoforms will be compared by measuring cancer hallmarks such as growth, migration, and mutation rate. The student will gain experience in 2D, 3D and organoid models, together with advanced molecular and cell biology techniques.

College / Directorate: College of Health, Medicine & Life Sciences Posted Date:28/03/2023 Closing Date:07/06/2023 Ref No:3773

PhD studentship to study the ALL-associated Robertsonian translocation

The team of Prof Vagnarelli, Dr Tosi and Prof Sala at Brunel University London is offering a fully funded PhD studentship to develop a cellular model of Robertsonian chromosome translocation (15;21) to study the evolution of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). Children who are born with a constitutive balanced Robertsonian translocation rob(15;21) are a high-risk category for developing ALL with poor prognosis and low treatment success rate.  This studentship will address the basis for this predisposition and design targeted treatments using state-of-the art methodologies.

Based in and funded by the College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, this studentship offers a full-time annual London rate stipend estimated at £20,551 plus Home/EU tuition fees, for a maximum of 36 months.

College / Directorate: College of Health, Medicine & Life Sciences Posted Date:28/03/2023 Closing Date:07/06/2023 Ref No:3775