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
Title: Investigating the role of placental hormones in pregnancy complications
Supervisor: Professor Ros John and Professor Karl Swann
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
Title: Better together: constructing tuneable fluorescent protein for cellular imaging of protein-protein interactions
Supervisor: Professor Dafydd Jones , Professor Peter Watson, Dr Georgina Menzies and Professor Richard Clarkson
Title: Building new nano-biosensors for healthcare: Linking biology to the world of carbon nanotechnology through synthetic biology
Supervisor: Professor Dafydd Jones , Professor Matteo Palma and Dr William Kelton
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Supervisor: Professor Helen White-Cooper and Professor Karl Swann
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Supervisor: Dr Mark Young and Dr Helen Brown
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Supervisor: Dr Mark Young and Dr Josie Parker
Learn more about our molecular biosciences research
Organisms and environment
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Supervisor: Dr Fredric Windsor
Learn more about our organisms and environment research
Neuroscience
Title: Unravelling neurodevelopmental disorders through human brain organoids
Supervisor: Dr Yasir Syed
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.
