PHD POSITION

PhD Studentship: Making drugs out of sunlight and “thin air”

Deadline: 24 Feb 2027 · 104 days left

Institution: University of East Anglia
Country: United Kingdom
Field: Chemistry
Type: PhD position
Pay: £21,805
Deadline: 24 Feb 2027 · 104 days left

About this position

Primary Supervisor: Dr Michael Stephenson Could you uncover a hidden pathway to medicinally important plant molecules? Plants are extraordinary chemists, producing a diversity of complex molecules, many with valuable medicinal properties. But how they make some of these compounds remains a mystery. Join us at the University of East Anglia (UEA) to solve a puzzle in plant natural product biosynthesis: how are sesquiterpene coumarins, a rare and medicinally promising class of natural products, formed? This project will investigate a new hypothesis: that plants produce these compounds using an un

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Applications close on 24 Feb 2027 (104 days from today). Apply on the official page; PhD Atlas does not collect applications.

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Official call: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTM751/phd-studentship-making-drugs-out-of-sunlight-and-thin-air

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