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The closing date for applications is 31st October 2025. Applications from overseas students are welcome.

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Project	Principal Investigator	PhD Type	More Info
Decoding a New Signalling Axis in Parkinson’s Disease	Dario Alessi	MRC Funded, Northwood	MORE
Viral interference of ISG15 signals	Kirby Swatek	MRC Funded, Northwood	MORE
Crosstalk between UPR Signaling and ER-phagy during ER Stress	Jin Rui (Amos) Liang	MRC Funded, Northwood	MORE
Decoding the mechanism and function of ER-Ribosome associated Quality Control	Yogesh Kulathu	MRC Funded, Northwood	MORE
Finding the eat-me signals	Ian Ganley	MRC Funded, Northwood	MORE
Destroying cancer-causing proteins	Gopal Sapkota	MRC Funded, Northwood	MORE
Genome Bodyguards: Investigating the Cell’s Hidden Repair Team	John Rouse	MRC Funded, Northwood	MORE
Investigating the immune-epithelial interactions that drive intestinal inflammation	Mahima Swamy	MRC Funded, Northwood	MORE
How do Dysregulated Signalling Pathways cause Intellectual Disability?	Greg Findlay	Northwood	MORE
Structural and Chemical Biology of Ubiquitin E3 Ligases	Satpal Virdee	MRC Funded, Northwood	MORE
New technologies to monitor assembly of alternative forms of the proteasome	Adrien Rousseau	Northwood	MORE
Cleave to Modify: A new biological mechanism for protein regulation	Chiara Maniaci	Northwood	MORE
From Data to Biology: AI-Driven Biomarker Discovery and Validation in Parkinson’s Disease through the MJFF LITE Initiative	Esther Sammler	MRC Funded, Northwood	MORE
Discovery of novel organelle and ubiquitin mechanisms underlying Parkinson’s disease	Miratul Muqit	Northwood	MORE
Deciphering novel ALS signalling pathways: Biomarker discovery and developing therapeutic strategies	Raja Nirujogi	Northwood	MORE
Decoding the hidden language of ubiquitin: non-canonical ubiquitylation in human health and disease	Virginia De Cesare	Northwood	MORE
Unravelling the molecular mechanisms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis / motor neuron disease	Arpan Mehta	Northwood	MORE