Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Karolinska Institutet, Solna, 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 Experimental Systems Neuroscience Neural basis of survival behaviors
Summary of PhD Program:
The Stagkourakis Lab at Karolinska Institutet and SciLifeLab in Stockholm is recruiting up to two PhD students in experimental systems neuroscience. We are based at the Department of Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet and are part of SciLifeLab, Sweden’s national center for large-scale biosciences and data-driven life science. Our mission is to uncover the neural and neurohormonal mechanisms underlying instinctual and homeostatic behaviors, including aggression, fear, food, and water intake.
Application Deadline: 06.Sep.2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in behavioral medicine perspectives on cancer survival
Summary of PhD Program:
The research group operates at the Department of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society (NVS), Karolinska Institutet (KI). This is a department of KI that focuses on education and research related to primary care; often health centers. The project is carried out in collaboration with the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery (MMK). The research group is also affiliated with Liljeholmen University Health Center in the Stockholm Region, which is Sweden’s largest health center.
Application Deadline: 2025-07-21
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in cellular neurodevelopmental biology
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project is aimed at advancing our understanding of how prenatal exposure to antidepressant medications could shape the developing brain and ultimately neurodevelopmental outcomes in the offspring. The first trimester of pregnancy is key to offspring development because this is the peak of neurogenesis, the period when neurons are born and their functional fate is mapped out. You will study the molecular and cellular mechanisms activated by pharmacological exposures during critical brain development periods, using complex in-vitro human brain model systems.
Application Deadline: 03.Jul.2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in single-cell cancer genomics
Summary of PhD Program:
To understand the effect of subclonal variation in cancer, we have developed a set of single-cell multiomics methods, such as DNTR-seq for joint WGS/mRNA-seq (see: Zachariadis et al. Mol. Cell 2020, Andrews et al. Nat. Methods 2021, Enge et al. Cell 2017). In this project, we are applying the methods to leukemias and solid tumors with a high level of subclonal genetic heterogeneity to understand the general rules of how gene dosage affects expression, as well as longitudinally during treatment to better understand genetic and epigenetic features of treatment persistence.
Application Deadline: 02.Jul.2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cognitive Neuroscience with focus on social cognition and consciousness
Summary of PhD Program:
As a doctoral student in the group, you will lead a new project that aims to investigate how our brains encode the attention of others. Results from previous studies and pilot data from the research group have shown that the natural dynamics of others’ eye movements appear to contain critical information that our brain uses to shape the experience of another person as a conscious human as opposed to an artificial and robot-like agent.
Application Deadline: 30.Jun.2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in sarcoma genomics
Summary of PhD Program:
You will analyse large multi-OMICS data sets, mainly genomic data, from sarcomas. Your training will focus on bioinformatics and biostatistics and be part of a research environment were you can develop these skills. There are two main projects i) compile and analyze large scale data sets, including prospective profiling of new tumors, and ii) detailed analysis of new genetic changes or genomic patterns in rare sarcomas.
Application Deadline: 27.Jun.2025
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in development of radiopharmaceutical therapy based on biologics
Summary of PhD Program:
We are seeking a motivated and inquisitive PhD student to join our team in advancing the development of antibody-based radiopharmaceuticals aimed at enhancing the diagnosis and treatment of metastatic cancers. Our research focuses on the next generation of radiopharmaceuticals for both molecular imaging and targeted therapy of solid tumors, including prostate cancer, breast cancer, and pediatric malignancies such as neuroblastoma.
Application Deadline: 26.Jun.2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in speech therapy
Summary of PhD Program:
The project group, which is part of the speech therapy unit at the Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, has a common focus on the consequences of communicative disabilities in everyday life. Our theoretical framework is based on a dialogical perspective and we use, among other things, multimodal interaction analysis. An important part of the group’s research is to increase the ecological validity of speech therapy activities; by focusing on people’s everyday lives, we can contribute to speech therapy interventions being designed so that they play a role in individuals’ opportunities to participate in social interaction, make decisions about their own person and exercise active citizenship.
Application Deadline: 2025-06-25
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Infection Immunology
Summary of PhD Program:
The student will join the Systems Virology Laboratory, part of the Division of Clinical Microbiology at the Department of Laboratory Medicine, Huddinge. The division is at the forefront of multidisciplinary infectious disease research, with a strong emphasis on translational science aimed at developing innovative diagnostic and therapeutic strategies. The Systems Virology Laboratory specializes in understanding host-pathogen interactions through the integration of advanced multi-omics technologies, including transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, with state-of-the-art experimental analysis.
Application Deadline: 24.Jun.2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cancer Epidemiology
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD position is hosted within the Center for Cervical Cancer Elimination (CCCE), a leading research unit specializing in epidemiology, virology, eScience, and cancer research. Our work focuses on the prevention and elimination of cervical cancer through basic and translational research on human papillomavirus (HPV). The group is also part of the International HPV Reference Laboratory, where we sequence, document, and store all newly identified papillomaviruses.
Application Deadline: 24.Jun.2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in clinical psychology
Summary of PhD Program:
KCP works to maintain a high level of competence in the field of evidence-based psychotherapy through education, research and quality assurance. The majority of employees have doctorates or doctoral students and several research projects are conducted at the unit linked to a range of psychiatric diagnoses and forms of psychotherapy for both children, adolescents and adults, including education, supervision and quality assurance. The employees at KCP also have a large network of researchers within and outside KI, including internationally.
Application Deadline: 2025-06-24
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in research about health outcomes of breast implants
Summary of PhD Program:
Cosmetic surgeries, including breast implantation, are common in our society; however, there is currently a limited understanding of the potential adverse health impact of such procedures. In this doctoral project, we are planning a series of multinational studies, leveraging extensive epidemiological and imaging data across the countries of Sweden, Iceland, and the USA, to examine comprehensively different health outcomes (e.g. mental illness, autoimmune diseases, fatigue, etc.) among women with a breast implant. The doctoral project will be led by Professor Fang Fang (main supervisor, https://ki.se/en/people/fang-fang) together with several co-supervisors with complementary expertise.
Application Deadline: 24.Jun.2025
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in spatial transcriptomics, cancer immunology, and antibody profiling
Summary of PhD Program:
A PhD position is available in the Engblom lab, in the intersection of immunology, cancer, and spatial transcriptomics, with the ultimate goal to understand tumor-associated immune responses and harness these for therapy. The overall aim of the lab is to understand fundamental mechanisms of B cell-related immune responses in cancer (and beyond) to identify new avenues for B-cell mediated therapy. To do this, we interrogate the spatial relationships between B cell clones and their immediate niches within tissues using our in-house developed spatial transcriptomics-based technology (Spatial VDJ).
Application Deadline: 23.Jun.2025
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in immunology with focus on sarcoidosis
Summary of PhD Program:
The successful candidate will join an international, dedicated research group composed of preclinical and clinical scientists that do experimental and translational research to understand disease driving mechanisms in respiratory inflammatory diseases and respiratory viral infections. Our studies use unique, clinically well characterized patient samples from cohorts that we follow longitudinally, and we house large biobanks of blood and tissue samples from patients and controls. We have also established 3D model systems to study immune cell interactions with the airway epithelium.
Application Deadline: 23.Jun.2025
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in mobile health (mHealth)
Summary of PhD Program:
This doctoral project aims to investigate how self-monitoring and remote monitoring via mobile health (mHealth) can be used to improve care and health outcomes in two different populations: women after pregnancy with previous preeclampsia and individuals with chronic cardiovascular diseases. The project is conducted within an interdisciplinary research environment and includes both observational and intervention studies, with a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods.
Application Deadline: 2025-06-23
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in probabilistic models of proteins
Summary of PhD Program:
This Data Driven Life Sciences (DDLS) PhD project focuses on probabilistic models of protein structure, which can be used primarily for computational protein design, but also for an array of other applications related to modeling and understanding proteins and their behavior. The heart of the project will be the development and refinement of novel computational methods and models, including extending methods already under development in the lab, with a particular focus on ways of exerting more precise control for protein design.
