PhD research programmes

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 has now passed.

Further information can be viewed here on the EASTBIO web site

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:

• Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences
• Edinburgh Infectious Diseases 
• Edinburgh Neuroscience
• Patrick Wild Centre 

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