PHD POSITION

PhD Studentship: Turning the Malaria Parasite's Protein Degradation Machinery Against It

Deadline: 2 Dec 2026 · 20 days left

Institution: University of Cambridge
Country: United Kingdom
Field: Life sciences and medicine
Type: PhD position
Deadline: 2 Dec 2026 · 20 days left

About this position

Location: Central Cambridge Project Title: Turning the Malaria Parasite's Protein Degradation Machinery Against It - Professor Katerina Artavanis-Tsakonas, co-supervised with Laura Itzhaki (Department of Pharmacology) Malaria remains a major global health challenge, with drug resistance threatening the effectiveness of existing treatments. This project will explore a fundamentally different way to kill malaria parasites: harnessing their own protein-degradation machinery to selectively destroy proteins they need to survive. Our lab studies how the ubiquitin system works in Plasmodium falciparu

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Applications close on 2 Dec 2026 (20 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/DTH001/phd-studentship-turning-the-malaria-parasites-protein-degradation-machinery-against-it

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