Available PhD research projects
The following projects are not funded by Cardiff University, but are open to applicants who are self-funded or have external funding. Applications are accepted all year round.
Biomedicine
Title: Investigating abnormal calcium release as a cause of sudden cardiac death in inherited heart disease
Supervisor: Dr Ewan Fowler and Professor Karl Swann
Title: Drug discovery leading to novel therapeutic avenues for the treatment of acute pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer
Supervisor: Dr Julia Gerasimenko and Dr Oleg Gerasimenko
Title: Molecular mechanisms underlying the anti-atherogenic actions of natural products
Supervisor: Professor Dipak Ramji and Dr Timothy Hughes
Title: Sperm derived factors involved in egg activation.
Supervisor: Professor Karl Swann and Dr Tomasz Jurkowski
Title: Determining molecular mechanisms of action of anti-obesity medications in neural stem cells and neurons
Supervisor: Dr David Petrik and Professor Nick Allen
Learn more about our biomedicine research.
Molecular biosciences
Title: Molecular mechanisms of iron related tumourigenesis and cachexia
Supervisor: Dr Fisun Hamaratoglu and Dr Tomasz Jurkowski
Learn more about our molecular biosciences research.
Organisms and environment
Learn more about our organisms and environment research.
Neuroscience
Learn more about our neuroscience research.
Make your own research proposal
Our academic supervisors are open to applications from self-funding students. You can contact staff members from the relevant research division to discuss potential research proposals:
To apply for any of the PhD studentships, please visit our main PhD page.
