PhD research programmes

We offer a range of research areas for study at PhD level.

Our approach ranges from molecules to man, from bench to bedside and from process to population. Our Centres and Institutes bring together basic and clinical academic staff in broad, thematic research concentrations encompassing basic sciences, translational and clinical research.

There are opportunities to obtain a place on funded PhD programmes, listed below, or for students to apply to one of our PhD programmes and to independently seek scholarship funding to fund their studies.

MRC Precision Medicine Doctoral Training programme

The University of Edinburgh, in collaboration with the University of Glasgow and the Karolinska Institute, has received a prestigious MRC award for a Doctoral Training Programme in Precision Medicine. This is a new programme integration between informaticians, clinicians and life scientists.

Doctoral Training Programme in Precision Medicine

EASTBIO 4-yr PhD programmes

The application deadline is 17 January 2025.

Applications are invited for the following funded PhD projects. Please follow the application guidance carefully, via each link to the advert on FindaPhD.com.

Prof Dave McLean

Brainstem origins of total body coordination during locomotion

Dr Barry Denholm            

Exploring form & function in one of nature’s most powerful water-conservation systems

Dr. Paul Donlin-Asp

Elucidating the function and regulation of PSD-95 and ACTB protein synthesis at dendritic spines 

Dr. Nick Robinson            

Neural Coding Underlying Episodic Memory Formation, Consolidation and Retrieval

Dr Mahesh Karnani          

Cortico-hypothalamic circuits in feeding

Dr Paula Brunton             

Investigating a role for the placenta in signalling maternal stress to the fetus and programming the fetal brain

Dr. Gedi Luksys 

Investigating neurocomputational mechanisms and modulatory factors of decision making in ecological settings

 

Further information can be viewed here on the EASTBIO web site

 

Funded PhD Project 

Deadline Friday 31st January 2025 (UK Students Only)

Dr Jian Gan

In vivo investigation of neuronal and circuit mechanisms underlying cognitive dysfunction in early dementia

 

Looking for a PhD?

Applicants that have independently obtained scholarship funding (or want to apply for scholarships via the University) should apply directly through the degree-finder website to any of our PhD programmes:

Anatomical Sciences

Infection Medicine

Integrative Physiology

Neuroscience

 

Further information on potential research topics and supervisors can be found through our Centres and Institutes:

Funding

Information on currently available fully funded studentships within Biomedical Sciences

Edinburgh Doctoral College Scholarship (ECDS)

Biomedical Sciences PhD Studentship with Transnational Education (TNE) experience

Further information

General information on applying for a PhD in one of our Centres/Institutes

 

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