Full details for this round are not yet available, as the call is expected to open in June. This communication is to bring the scheme to your attention to allow candidates sufficient time to prepare strong applications. The University’s internal selection process for this round...
Funding, job and studentship opportunities in synthetic and engineering biology both within Cambridge and externally.
Opportunities by Category
Funding Opportunities: internal and external grant funding opportunities and other sources of funding.
Job Opportunities: a list of current and past postdoc, lecturer and senior academic roles as well as roles in Cambridge-based companies and wider opportunitites across synthetic and engineering biology.
Internships: placements outside of academia in industry, policy organisations and other environments.
Postgraduate studentships: PhD studentships, Masters courses and other postgraduate placement opportunities.
Undergraduate placement opportunities: if you are looking for a summer placement or Part II or Part III project, we can signpost to relevant synthetic and/or engineering biology labs based on your interests. Please email coordinator@engbio.cam.ac.uk.
All Opportunities
The Royal Society of Chemistry Outreach Fund is once again open for both Small (up to £5,000) and Large (between £5,001 and £10,000) applications to support chemistry-based public and schools engagement activities. For information on the...
As a Technical Specialist, you will have the rare chance to catalyse breakthroughs that could change the world and that would not otherwise be created. You'll get to sit alongside Programme Director Angie Burnett on ARIA's plant synthetic biology programme, helping to direct teams across...
CSaP's Policy Innovation Fund aims to help researchers, particularly early career researchers, to develop, test and carry out innovative policy engagement activities.The Policy Innovation Fund (PIF) offers awards of up to £10,000 to enable Cambridge researchers to work...
We are currently advertising one UKRI/MRC PhD studentship for entry in October 2024, which will be awarded on a competitive basis. The studentship pays for Cambridge University and College fees, and the student receives a generous full stipend of £21,122 per year (as at 2023), payable for up to...
Applications are invited for a post-doctoral research associate to work in the group of Prof. Robert Phipps in the Department of Chemistry on a project funded by UKRI through the Horizon Europe Guarantee Scheme. The project concerns the development of new catalytic approaches to enantioselective...
We have a postdoctoral position available to study host-pathogen interactions and innate immune recognition in the group of Prof. Yorgo Modis in the University of Cambridge Department of Medicine. The Modis group is part of the Molecular Immunity Unit within the MRC Laboratory of Molecular...
A postdoctoral position is available for 3 months (in the first instance, extension possible) from 1 June 2024 to work with Florian Hollfelder at the Biochemistry Department of Cambridge University (https://hollfelder.bioc.cam.ac.uk/). The project...
Applications are invited for a Biocurator to join PomBase, the model organism database for the fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe. The project's aims are to manually curate and integrate molecular, genetic, biochemical and sequence data for fission yeast.
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The MRC Biostatistics Unit, one of Europe's leading biostatistics research institutions, is pleased to announce the launch of a Summer Internship Programme for 2024. Under this programme, successful applicants will be employed by the Unit to undertake work which contributes to the Unit's...
We welcome excellent candidates who can teach and perform research in Plant Ecology. In particular, we are interested in applications from those with a focus on fieldwork in areas such as molecular ecology, evolutionary ecology, microbial ecology in the context of plant biology, plant and...
The aim of this programme is to fund 4-year Non-Clinical PhD studentships at the University of Cambridge (UoC) for talented graduates in research areas which align with the strategic interests of AstraZeneca (AZ). The three broad areas of research interests are
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Development i-Teams is open to everyone! Under-graduates, post-graduates (Masters, MBAs and PhDs), PostDocs and university staff, from any background and department. Have you ever wondered how new ideas can help people in the developing world and contribute to sustainable...
Samastar Ltd is a biotech company developing innovative automation devices to monitor cell cultures remotely and in real time. We are seeking highly motivated students to join our team and get experience in industry.
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STP is looking for an Economist/Policy Analyst to support policy and economic analysis with specialised expertise and experience in the areas of industrial biotechnology, technology for climate change mitigation, bioeconomy, carbon management and advanced manufacturing to address the...
C2D3 will be awarding £15,000 of Seed Funding to Early Career Researchers,up to £5,000 per project. C2D3 would like to invite University of Cambridge Early Career Researchers to apply for a seed fund...
Innovate UK/BBSRC have announced the...
Applications are invited for an exciting opportunity to join the Sormanni Lab at the Chemistry of Health, to assist in multidisciplinary projects related to computational design and laboratory characterization of antibodies and corresponding targets
We are seeking to recruit a research assistant to work for the laboratory of Camilla Godlee in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, UK. Research in the Godlee lab focuses on host-pathogen interactions of bacterial infections....
We seek to recruit a highly enthusiastic and motivated full-time Research Assistant to work with Dr.Lay Ping Ong (https://www.cardiovascular.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-lay-ping-ong) on a jointly funded MRC/Astra Zeneca project,...
Applications are invited for a post-doctoral research associate to join Dr Jenny Zhang's team at the Department of Chemistry on a project aimed at developing and characterising artificial photosynthetic cells that can carry out photochemistry for energy conversion.
Applications are invited for a BBSRC-funded postdoctoral vacancy in molecular biology to join a multi-disciplinary team based at the Department of Pathology.
The Department of Plant Sciences is seeking to appoint a post-doctoral Research Associate to contribute to work on betalain-pigment related technologies. The successful candidate will join the Brockington Lab, who specialise in the evolution of betalain pigments and their biotechnological...
Department of Plant Sciences is seeking to appoint a post-doctoral Research Associate to contribute to the development of disease-resistant crops. The successful candidate will join the Patron Lab to work on a collaborative project with the Morris Lab (John Innes Centre), and the Denby Lab (...
A position exists for a Research Assistant/Associate to design, fabricate and validate implantable bioelectronic devices as part of a NIHR funded project to develop a minimally invasive spinal cord stimulator system.
The Ahringer lab in the Gurdon Institute is looking for an experienced laboratory research scientist with expertise in molecular biology and genomics to support its research programmes. We decipher how chromatin and gene expression are regulated to direct the step-by-step development of the...
National Institute for Health and Care Research has announced the ...
The KEN Pump Priming Fund Scheme is now open for applications, and KEN colleagues are invited to apply for up to £20k of ‘pump priming’ funding for challenge-led activities, to support collaborative research between the University and industry. Please find the application guidance...
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