Bioinformatics Scholarships & PhD Positions 2026–2027: 29+ Open Programmes
29 verified bioinformatics scholarships & phd positions for 2026–2027 are open right now, concentrated in United Kingdom and Germany. The soonest deadline is 31 October 2026 — closing-soon entries are flagged in the list. Hosted by Earlham Institute, University of Liverpool and Aarhus University. Listings are re-verified daily against official sources.
The BBSRC North West Doctoral Programme in Bioscience (NWDP) is a four-year doctoral training partnership between the University of Manchester, University of Liverpool, and BBSRC. Fully funded studentships starting October 2027, with applications open 2 November 2026 and deadline 4 December 2026. Limited number of full awards available to international applicants.
Cambridge’s BBSRC biosciences programme offers doctoral training in biological sciences and related quantitative research. Admission and funding conditions are set by the programme.
Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research (CGA) · Germany
The Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research offers up to 12 fully funded PhD positions in ageing research at Germany's leading ageing research cluster. Three-year contracts with TV-L E13 salary. Application deadline: 3 November 2026.
EMABG trains animal scientists in breeding, biodiversity and genomics across six consortium universities including BOKU Vienna, Wageningen, Göttingen, SLU, NMBU and AgroParisTech. The third-intake application round opened on 15 September 2026 and stays open until 15 January 2027, with roughly 15 fully funded Erasmus Mundus scholarships on offer.
EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships support excellent postdoctoral researchers in the life sciences for up to two years. International mobility is a key requirement. Includes salary, relocation allowance, and child support. Applications accepted throughout the year with cutoff dates. Next deadline: 22 January 2027.
✓ Fully FundedStipend/salary rate set by the funder — see the official listing
The Wellcome Sanger Institute’s four-year PhD programme trains researchers in genomics through experimental and computational rotations. Students later select a laboratory and register for a Cambridge PhD.
CEITEC MU in Brno offers a fully funded PhD position in Petr Tesina's Research Group investigating the structural biology of eukaryotic translation control. ERC-funded salary starting at 30,000 CZK net. Rolling review, so apply early. Deadline: 8 January 2027.
✓ Fully FundedStipend/salary rate set by the funder — see the official listing
Over 100 fully funded PhD positions in life sciences at Life Science Zurich Graduate School (ETH Zurich and University of Zurich). 17 PhD programs. Deadline: 1 Nov 2026.
✓ Fully FundedSalary set by host institution (typically CHF 50,000–70,000/year gross)
The Leipzig School of Human Origins recruits doctoral researchers studying human evolution and related questions. No IELTS or TOEFL certificate is required; English is assessed through the application and interviews.
Max Planck School of Biomedical AI (BMAI) · Germany
The Max Planck School of Biomedical AI (BMAI) offers 25 fully funded three-year PhD positions at leading German research institutions. Interdisciplinary research at the interface of AI and life sciences. Application deadline: 1 December 2026. Applicants can apply without IELTS - German doctoral hiring assesses English through documents and interview.
This Inland Norway PhD fellowship connects bioinformatics and machine learning with the diagnosis of infection and antimicrobial resistance. Job classification code 1017 must not be treated as a stipend amount.
✓ Fully FundedNOK 550,800/year gross (Norwegian state salary plan 17.510, code 1017)
The University of Liverpool is advertising a funded doctorate on context-aware metabolite annotation. It builds on Integrated Probabilistic Annotation to reduce reliance on simple mass matching.
The Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Stockholm University invites applications for a PhD student position in bioinformatics. The position develops computational approaches to biological data, working across large-scale sequencing, proteomics or imaging datasets depending on the project line, and contributing methods that the department's experimental groups rely on.
✓ Fully FundedSalaried PhD position per the Swedish collective agreement
This Earlham Institute PhD uses genomic diversity to support celery breeding against Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. apii race 4. The project involves collaboration with Tozer Seeds.
This Earlham Institute PhD tests whether controlling the timing and location of resistance-gene expression can preserve crop protection while reducing growth penalties. Potato cyst nematodes provide the disease system.
This Earlham Institute PhD will map gene-expression changes across the Euglena gracilis cell cycle. It examines a protist whose regulation differs substantially from familiar plant and animal systems.
Uppsala University invites applications for a doctoral student position in evolutionary and ecological genetics. The project applies genomic methods to questions in population and evolutionary genetics, studying how genetic variation is shaped by ecological processes and how natural populations adapt to changing environments.
Earlham Institute is offering a PhD on using explainable AI to design regulatory DNA in plants. The project asks whether model explanations can reveal sequence rules that withstand biological testing.
This Wageningen PhD investigates genome evolution and chromosome architecture in understudied unicellular eukaryotes. It is hosted by the Laboratory of Microbiology and the Genome Evolution and Diversity in Eukaryotes research group. Applicants can apply without IELTS - selection is based on documents and an English interview, not a test certificate.
This Earlham Institute doctorate investigates how genome sequences determine DNA replication origins. It combines computational prediction with synthetic-biology experiments in yeast.
This ARIES project at Earlham Institute investigates how long grassland fungal communities take to recover after disturbance. It combines soil ecology with sequencing and collaboration with Rothamsted Research.
Earlham Institute is offering a doctorate on the gene-expression events that establish lateral root founder cells. The project combines biological recording circuits with single-cell analysis.
This Liverpool–AFBI studentship investigates metabolic responses to methane-suppressing feed additives in beef cattle. It is advertised for UK students who meet the stated eligibility requirements.
Earlham Institute is advertising an ARIES doctorate on genomic variation and population structure in Atlantic bluefin tuna and Atlantic herring. The project involves CEFAS researchers.
