Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Karolinska Institute, Sweden invites online application for multiple funded PhD Programs / fully funded PhD positions in various research areas.
Candidates interested in fully funded PhD positions can check the details and may apply as soon as possible. Interested and eligible applicants may submit their online application for PhD programs via the University’s Online Application Portal.
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in single-cell/spatial omics
Summary of PhD Program:
Our research group has performed single-cell/spatial omics studies, identifying for instance several cell states within the oligodendrocyte lineage in development and disease (Science 2016, Dev Cell 2018, Nature Medicine 2018, Nature 2019, Nature Biotechnology 2021, 2022, Neuron 2022, Nature 2023, among others). Our recent findings suggest that oligodendrocyte lineage cells might present other functional properties than previously thought, transitioning for instance to disease-associated states. In addition, our results also suggest that single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with multiple sclerosis susceptibility might be operational in oligodendrocyte lineage cells.
Application Deadline: 15.Sep.2023
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Single cell analysis of the developing and aging inner ear
Summary of PhD Program:
We are seeking a highly motivated student with a strong bioinformatics background who is interested in using single-cell computational tools to better understand the complexity of cell types in various conditions, their potential interactions, and biological impacts in a whole organ. The candidate’s primary responsibility will be to establish pipelines for analyzing gene expression data from single-cell RNA-sequencing (Smartseq3xpress and 10X), spatial transcriptomics, and other platforms, including chromatin accessibility sequencing (ATAC-seq and multi-omics). The candidate will analyze cell-type-specific aging clock, GRNs, loss of gene-to-gene transcriptional coordination, and transcriptome imbalance, among other things, to make significant advances in the genetic regulation of complex organ emergence and senescence in mammals.
Application Deadline: 22.Aug.2023
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in cognition after cardiac surgery
Summary of PhD Program:
The project focuses on elderly people’s cognitive recovery after heart surgery. Advanced surgery is performed today on an increasingly elderly population and an increased knowledge of the elderly person’s cognitive recovery is of the utmost importance to be able to meet the need for follow-up, support and care after the operation, both for the affected person and their relatives. This doctoral project will study the occurrence of postoperative cognitive impairment in elderly people who have undergone heart surgery and investigate how postoperative cognitive impairment affects the patient’s postoperative recovery and how relatives experience the patient’s cognitive functions.
Application Deadline: 2023-08-17
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in next generation sequencing of spider silk genes
Summary of PhD Program:
We employ an interdisciplinary approach to understand the processing and storage of silk proteins in the spiders’ glands. To do so we will and use state-of-the-art sequencing methods to build a spatially resolved map of gene expression in the silk glands. Proteins that have been identified in the silk fiber but that lack unknown function will be produced in E. coli, purified, and characterized. Hopefully, these insights will help the research group in the quest to design proteins and spinning devices that can produce supreme artificial silk fibers.
Application Deadline: 16.Aug.2023
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Medical Education
Summary of PhD Program:
The doctoral student project will explore the role of patients in the learning of medical students. The aim is to better understand how students learn from and together with patients and how this learning can be supported and developed. The project adopts a qualitative approach, and data will be collected through observational studies and interviews with medical students, supervisors, and patients. By gaining a deeper understanding of the patient’s role in the clinical learning context, we hope to improve the education of future doctors and simultaneously enhance patients’ experiences of healthcare. The project is based on socio-cultural theories and will apply phenomenography and activity theory as the primary research methodologies.
Application Deadline: 13.Aug.2023
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in psychiatric epidemiology
Summary of PhD Program:
The overall aim of the project is to characterize patterns, risk factors, treatment and pathways to labor market marginalization in individuals with diagnosed depressive or anxiety disorder. The studies build on register data and the doctoral student will learn to apply advanced statistical methods and epidemiological design. The student will predominantly review the literature, prepare working data files, run statistical analyses and write manuscripts. In this process, the doctoral student will be supervised by Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz (main supervisor, Professor of Insurance medicine), Katalin Gemes (Assistant Professor), and Magnus Helgesson (Assistant Professor).
Application Deadline: 13.Aug.2023
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in genetics
Summary of PhD Program:
The doctoral student will perform analysis of medical genetics, archaic DNA, population-scale biobanks, and conduct experimental research. This includes challenging tasks in computational biology, bioinformatics, and wet-lab work including molecular biology and pharmacology. Overall, the project strives to leverage combined insights in genetics with medical knowledge to gain insights of pathophysiological and pharmacological relevance.
Application Deadline: 11.Aug.2023
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Epidemiological Approaches for Kidney Disease and Dementia
Summary of PhD Program:
The division of Clinical Geriatrics at the department of Neurobiology, Care sciences and society, KI is dedicated to research on neurodegenerative disorders, with a special focus on dementia diagnosis, prevention, and treatment. The division drives multiple lines of research using clinical research, imaging research, computerized methods, and epidemiological research based on quality registries. Our work has a close clinical connection with the Memory Clinic at the Karolinska University Hospital and multidisciplinary work that includes research in the fields of geriatric medicine, neurology, psychiatry, psychology, and nephrology. The SveDem research group led by Prof. Maria Eriksdotter is located at the KI Campus in Huddinge.
Application Deadline: 10.Aug.2023
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Harmful sitting in old age
Summary of PhD Program:
The project is led by Anna-Karin Welmer, associate professor, and senior lecturer at the Division of physiotherapy, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, and leader of the group Aging and health. The research in the group concerns health in older adults, with special focus on physical function, physical activity, sedentary behavior, and injurious falls. The research combines clinical studies (interventions and implementation research) with large population-based studies. The group is interprofessional and consists of junior and senior researchers with different competencies within the field of health in old age. The group has regular meetings, and the division has seminars and journal clubs for doctoral students.
Application Deadline: 10.Aug.2023
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in brain activity
Summary of PhD Program:
The position is connected to the research group Franzén and partly within the core facility uMOVE at Karolinska Institutet. The research groups’ focus is on translational, which connects the exploration of underlying mechanisms in neurological diseases with clinical interventions and the implementation of interventions for people with neurological and geriatric rehabilitation. Areas of particular interest are balance control, movement, physical activity, brain activity and falls in people with neurological diseases (multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, spinal cord injury and stroke) and elderly people.
Application Deadline: 2023-08-09
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in experimental psychology
Summary of PhD Program:
The goal of the project (PI Björn Lindström) is to develop a new framework for understanding the psychological, neural, and computational mechanisms of social learning, social transmission, and cultural evolution. The doctoral student will lead a new project that will investigate the social learning mechanisms involved in human cultural evolution.
Application Deadline: 07.Aug.2023
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in immunology
Summary of PhD Program:
The research project will characterize fundamental features of T cell biology and immunometabolism and uncover, for the first time, the role of atypical ubiquitination in T cells. Particularly, the Ph.D. student will use knockout strategies in cells and mice to investigate the role of a novel ubiquitin-related enzyme in the regulation of the responses and metabolism of T cells. For this, the student will use mainly gene-edited mice to perform diverse ex vivo and in vivo T-cell-based studies, disease models of cancer, asthma, and airway inflammation, as well as biochemical and proteomics approaches.
Application Deadline: 06.Aug.2023
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in endocrinology
Summary of PhD Program:
A creative and inspiring environment full of expertise and curiosity. Karolinska Institutet is one of the world’s leading medical universities. Our vision is to pursue the development of knowledge about life and to promote a better health for all. At Karolinska Institutet, we conduct successful medical research and hold the largest range of medical education in Sweden. As a doctoral student you are offered an individual research project, a well-educated supervisor, a vast range of elective courses and the opportunity to work in a leading research group. Karolinska Institutet collaborates with prominent universities from all around the world, which ensures opportunities for international exchanges. You will be employed on a doctoral studentship which means that you receive a contractual salary. Employees also have access to our modern gym for free and receive reimbursements for medical care.
Application Deadline: 06.Aug.2023
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in natural killer cell biology
Summary of PhD Program:
The Malmberg lab has a strong background in understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the formation and diversification of human NK cell repertoires in health and disease. A central aspect of these studies has been to examine the dynamic shaping of NK cell function by killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIR). Understanding how inhibitory interactions can lead to modulation of the lysosomal compartment and how lysosomal signaling fine-tunes the functional response is one current area of research within the lab.
Application Deadline: 04.Aug.2023
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Neuropsychoimmunology
Summary of PhD Program:
The objective of this PhD project is to investigate brain-penetrant drug candidates effective for psychosis and/or cognitive impairments. Such drugs would have the potential to significantly improve the quality of life of affected individuals. More specifically we would like the new drug to dampen the synthesis of brain kynurenic acid (KYNA) via inhibition of immune-regulated enzymes. The primary aim of this PhD student project is to investigate the efficacy of drugs in reducing KYNA concentrations in both in vitro and in vivo assays. Also, their influence on brain dopamine neuronal activity and behavior will be investigated. The second aim is to perform target validation studies in clinical cohorts, enabling the identification of the patient to treat.
Application Deadline: 04.Aug.2023
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in hypervolemia and hemodynamic adaptations
Summary of PhD Program:
Exercise-induced improvement of maximal oxygen uptake capacity (VO2max) occurs through adaptations of both peripheral and central factors. Previous research shows that the respiratory capacity of the mitochondria exceeds the oxygen transport from the cardiorespiratory system, which means that VO2max is primarily limited by cardiac output and the central factors have a significant role in increasing VO2max. There is a direct link between the effect of exercise on blood volume increase and increased cardiac output. Both traditional cardio training and interval training produce similar increases in VO2max despite their large differences in intensity and duration.
Application Deadline: 03.Aug.2023
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in human immunology
Summary of PhD Program:
We are seeking a curious and ambitious individual to join the research group of Professor Yenan Bryceson as a PhD student to identify and mechanistically understand novel primary immunodeficiency diseases with susceptibility to viral infection, hyperinflammation, as well as cancer. Recent high-impact studies from our group on this subject include Zitti et al. Immunity 2023, Campbell et al. J Exp Med 2022, Kalinichenko et al., Blood 2021, Holmes et al., Science Immunology 2021, Tesi et al., Blood 2017, and Schlums et al., Blood 2017.
Application Deadline: 02.Aug.2023
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Perinatal Neuroscience
Summary of PhD Program:
Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy is a major cause of neonatal death and long-term disability globally. Subsequent inflammation after the brain injury has been identified to be an important factor for neurological outcomes. Most studies have focused on early immunological changes following cerebral ischemia, but this strategy excludes many children from therapy since they present too late. Our group was the first to find long-lasting inflammation with activated T cells in the brain parenchyma up to five months after cerebral hypoxic ischemia in rodents, and that peripheral lymphocytes in animals exposed to a neonatal brain injury are proliferating in response to brain antigens several months later. Modulating this immune response may be beneficial in terms of neurological outcomes.
