Fully Funded 4-Year PhD Studentships in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Edinburgh

Applications at the moment are open for excellent college students who want to pursue a 4-year PhD studentship in Biomedical Sciences beginning in September 2025.

Why Join Us?

Based in the Edinburgh Medical School: Biomedical Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, this prestigious program affords you the likelihood to:

• Work alongside main analysis teams.
• Develop your experience in transnational schooling (TNE).
• Experience an revolutionary and supportive analysis setting.

Funding and Benefits

These totally funded studentships embody:

• Full tuition charges (for each home and worldwide college students).
• A UKRI-level stipend.
• Generous analysis prices to help your challenge.

Unique Opportunities

In addition to your PhD analysis, you’ll:

• Develop TNE expertise towards AFHEA accreditation.
• Participate in brief analysis and academic visits (2 visits totaling 4-6 weeks yearly) to the ZJE Joint Institute in China with help out of your PhD supervisory staff.

Eligibility Criteria

To apply, candidates should:

• Meet the University of Edinburgh’s PhD entry necessities, together with English language proficiency.
• Achieve a 2:1 diploma classification (or equal) in a Biomedical-related undergraduate Honours diploma program (conditional acceptance).
• Discuss tasks with potential supervisors previous to submitting an application.

How to Apply

Submit a single PDF doc to ZJEPGSupport@ed.ac.uk by 12 midday on Friday, thirty first January 2025. Your application should embody:

1. Your CV.
2. A 1-page private assertion explaining your motivation for pursuing a PhD and rating as much as 3 tasks of curiosity (after discussing with supervisors).
3. A 1-page profession aspirations assertion outlining how TNE talent improvement aligns together with your long-term objectives.

Shortlisted candidates may have the alternative to fulfill with potential PhD supervisors throughout the interview course of.

List of PhD Projects

1. Investigating the utility of visible aids in instructing biomedical science and biomedical informatics to transnational schooling college students with English as a further language
   Primary Supervisor: Dr. Laura O’Hara
2. Epigenetic regulatory layers in aortic aneurysm
   Primary Supervisor: Dr. Tijana Mitic
3. Investigating a task for the placenta in signaling maternal stress to the fetus and programming the fetal mind
   Primary Supervisor: Dr. Paula Brunton
4. Investigating neurocomputational mechanisms and modulatory components of resolution making utilizing digital phenotyping
   Primary Supervisor: Dr. Gedi Luksys
5. How does the human fungal pathogen, Candida albicans, exploit morphological switching for elevated virulence?
   Primary Supervisor: Dr. Vasso Makrantoni
6. Genomic plasticity: A survival technique for human fungal pathogens
   Primary Supervisor: Dr. Vasso Makrantoni
7. In silico trials of medical micro/nanorobots in blood: managed movement and drug supply
   Primary Supervisor: Dr. Qi Zhou
8. Uncovering how regulation of endogenous retroelements shapes bat immune responses
   Primary Supervisor: Dr. Richard Sloan
9. Undergraduate college students’ and lecturers’ experiences of intercultural studying at a UK-China joint institute of biomedicine
   Primary Supervisor: Dr. John Menzies

Don’t miss this distinctive alternative to advance your profession in Biomedical Sciences with world-class assets and help!

Application deadline 12 midday on Friday, thirty first January 2025

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