PHD POSITION

PhD Studentship: Dissecting Metabolic Heterogeneity in Severe Mental Illness Through…

Deadline: 8 Dec 2026 · 26 days left

Institution: University of Exeter
Country: United Kingdom
Field: Life sciences and medicine
Type: PhD position
Pay: £21,805 The studentship will provide funding of fees and a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.
Deadline: 8 Dec 2026 · 26 days left

About this position

This PhD aims to understand why genetic liability to severe mental illness (SMI), particularly schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, is associated with different patterns of adiposity and metabolic health. Although obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2D) are more common in people with SMI, substantial heterogeneity exists, with many individuals remaining metabolically healthy despite a high burden of SMI risk. We hypothesise distinct components of psychiatric genetic liability influence metabolic health through different biological pathways, with some increasing susceptibility to obesity and T2D while

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Official call: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTL151/phd-studentship-dissecting-metabolic-heterogeneity-in-severe-mental-illness-through-genetic-clustering-and-single-cell-functional-genomics

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