PhD topics for research students

Find below a list of currently available self-funded PhD topics.

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3D printing of scaffolds for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
This project aims to develop multifunctional novel bioactive tissue scaffolds using 3D printing, biomaterials science and controlled drug delivery systems to enhance tissue regeneration. Tissue scaffo...

Self Funded

Engineering the Peacekeepers: Novel CAR-Treg and Adoptive Cell Therapies for Pregnancy Complications
Project Overview The Scottà group is seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate to join a pioneering research program at the intersection of adoptive cell therapy and maternal-foetal medicine. This proj...

Cristiano Scotta

Self-Funded

3D Genome Organisation Driving Gene Fusions in Leukaemia
Leukaemia is the most common childhood cancer, and growing evidence suggests it often begins before birth. Chromosomal translocations that create gene fusions are a hallmark of many leukaemias. Severa...

Sabrina Tosi
Sibylle Ermler
Joanna Bridger

Self-Funded

Bacterial Outer Membrane Vesicles as Modulators of Host Immune Crosstalk in Colorectal Cancer Organoid Models
This project explores how outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) from gut microbiota and pathogenic bacteria shape immune responses in colorectal cancer. You’ll use advanced in vitro platforms — including or...

Ayca Sayi Yazgan

Self-Funded

Immunometabolic Regulation of B Cells in Gastric Cancer and Infection-Associated Immunity
This project aims to dissect the immunometabolic programming of B cell subsets in gastric cancer and their response to microbial stimuli such as Helicobacter infection. You'll examine how metabolic r...

Ayca Sayi Yazgan

Self-Funded

Advancing new therapies for Friedreich’s Ataxia (FRDA)
We are seeking a highly motivated and creative PhD candidate to work on a collaborative project aimed at the identification of therapies for an inherited neurodegenerative disease, Friedreich’s Ataxi...

Sara Anjomani Virmouni

Self-Funded

Exploring Novel Therapeutic Strategies for Friedreich’s Ataxia (FRDA)-Associated Cardiomyopathy
We are seeking a highly motivated and creative PhD candidate to work on a collaborative project aimed at the identification of therapies for an inherited neurodegenerative disease, Friedreich’s Ataxi...

Sara Anjomani Virmouni

Self-Funded

Exploring artificial intelligence for precision medicine
Cardiovascular diseases, including hypertension, myocardial infarction, heart failure, and stroke, remain the leading causes of mortality worldwide and their prevalence continues to rise. These condit...

Raha Pazoki

Self Funded

Elucidating the Neuropsychological and Genomic Mechanisms Underlying Psychosis in Older Adults with and Without Dementia
Psychosis, broadly defined by delusions and hallucinations, is a feature of many clinical conditions. Perhaps the best known of these is schizophrenia but psychosis also occurs in the context of demen...

Byron Creese

Self-Funded

AI-Driven Multimodal Biomedical Data Fusion
Technological advances in biomedicine now enable the collection of high-dimensional, heterogeneous data across multiple platforms, including imaging, genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics and clinic...

Yongmin Li
Doreen Lau

Self Funded