PHD POSITION

PhD Studentship: A Hostile Niche: How Mutant Blood Stem Cells Damage Their Healthy…

Deadline: 30 Nov 2026 · 18 days left

Institution: University of East Anglia
Country: United Kingdom
Field: Life sciences and medicine
Type: PhD position
Pay: £21,805 p.a.
Deadline: 30 Nov 2026 · 18 days left

About this position

As people age, some blood stem cells acquire mutations that give them a growth advantage over their normal counterparts. Our recent work suggests the mutant cells don't just outgrow their neighbours, they actively reshape the bone marrow around them. This change causes a functional change in the normal blood stem cells skewing their production of the immune cells. This project aims to understand which cells of the blood system are affected and what is happening to the cells at the gene and metabolic level with the overarching aim of understanding if this causes accelerated ageing of the normal

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Applications close on 30 Nov 2026 (18 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/DTJ380/phd-studentship-a-hostile-niche-how-mutant-blood-stem-cells-damage-their-healthy-neighbours

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