A new list of targeted projects for the academic year 2026-2027 will be published once applications are open (September/October).
Targeted projects for academic year 2025-2026
Project: Synthesis and biological evaluation of controlled-release prodrugs against Pseudomonas species
Project reference: TRG-CHE-DS
Supervisor: Professor David Spring (spring@ch.cam.ac.uk)
Department/Institute: Chemistry
Project: Understanding chemical permeability and metabolism in Pseudomonas species
Project reference: TRG-HLRI-AF
Supervisor: Professor Andres Floto (arf27@cam.ac.uk)
Department/Institute: Medicine, Heart and Lung Research Institute
Project: Rare and common variants in mental health dimensions in UKB and linking to trajectories of mental health symptoms in birth cohorts
Project reference: TRG-PD-VW
Supervisor: Dr Varun Warrier (vw260@cam.ac.uk)
Department/Institute: Psychiatry
Project: Intrinsic and extrinsic control of T cell migration
Project reference: TRG-BAB-AR
Supervisor: Dr Arianne Richard (arianne.richard@babraham.ac.uk)
Department/Institute: Babraham Institute
Project: Alpha-synuclein phase separation – from computational modelling to in vivo exploration
Project reference: TRG-IMR-JL
Supervisor: Dr Janin Lautenschlaeger (jl865@cam.ac.uk)
Department/Institute: Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR)
Project: The study of charge transport on the surface of bio-membranes
Project reference: TRG-CHE-SM
Supervisor: Dr Svetlana Menkin (sm2383@cam.ac.uk)
Department/Institute: Chemistry
Project: Investigating the role of sodium-coupled glucose transporter-1 in glucose interoception using a new conditional knockout mouse model
Project reference: TRG-IMS-FR
Supervisor: Professor Frank Reimann (fr222@cam.ac.uk)
Department/Institute: Institute of Metabolic Science (IMS)
Project: Innate antiviral immunity as a barrier to zoonotic virus infection
Project reference: TRG-PAT-BF
Supervisor: Dr Brian Ferguson (bf234@cam.ac.uk)
Department/Institute: Pathology
Project: G protein-coupled receptor signals beyond the cell surface
Project reference: TRG-PHA-MMS
Supervisor: Dr Maria Marti Solano (mm2402@cam.ac.uk)
Department/Institute: Pharmacology
Project: Rewiring root regulators for fine-tuning the legume-rhizobial symbiosis
Project reference: TRG-SAI-KS
Supervisor: Dr Katharina Schiessl (ks846@cam.ac.uk)
Department/Institute: Sainsbury Laboratory
Project: Epigenetic regulation of cellular plasticity during brain development
Project reference: TRG-SAN-OB
Supervisor: Dr Omer Bayraktar (ob5@sanger.ac.uk)
Department/Institute: Sanger Institute