Jobs, Internships & PhDs

Vacancies for local, national and international jobs, internships and PhD projects

Research Assistant

University of Edinburgh

The Translational Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy (CAA) Research Group are recruiting a Research Assistant. You’ll play a key role in helping us understand how CAA affects brain health. You’ll work closely with postdocs, PhD students, and other lab members, supporting a wide range of experiments and day-to-day research activity. Your work will directly contribute to ongoing projects in vascular dementia research.

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Research Fellow

UK DRI are seeking a motivated Research Fellow to join the Hong Lab, focusing on neuroimmune interactions along the gut–brain axis in Parkinson’s disease.

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RUSH Science Manager

University of Edinburgh

This exciting new role will manage the scientific development, design, and delivery of a portfolio of research projects in the internationally recognised Research to Understand Stroke due to Haemorrhage (RUSH) programme.

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Programme Manager

EPIC Think Learn is seeking a dynamic and values-driven Programme Manager to lead the delivery of our Scottish Government–funded programme supporting neurodivergent children, their families, and teachers across Scotland.

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KJCF Quest Fellowships in Brain Health and Multimorbidity (3 posts)

University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh is partnering with The Karlsson Játiva Charitable Foundation to launch the KJCF Quest Fellowships in Brain Health and Multimorbidity, focused on improving the lives of people with multiple long-term conditions, where one or more affect brain health.

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PhD Studentship: How are transdiagnostic structural brain abnormalities in psychosis associated with risk factors, cognitive deficits, and neurotransmitters?

King's College London

Are you interested in studying the underlying shared brain mechanisms behind psychotic disorders? Do you want to learn new methods that could potentially change how we map brain conditions? This John Grace QC PhD Scholarship commences October 2026.

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PhD Position in Epigenetic Regulation of Neuroimmunity in Alzheimer’s Disease

Based at University Medical Center Groningen (Netherlands), this PhD project aims to uncover how genetic risk influences immune cell function in AD by integrating single-nucleus epigenomic profiling of brain immune cells with high-resolution spatial transcriptomics.

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Group Leader Parkinson's Research Centre

As a UK DRI Group Leader within the PRC, you will lead an internationally competitive research programme focused on Parkinson’s disease.

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Future Medicine PhD Studentships

University of Edinburgh

Thanks to a generous gift from a private donor, the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine is offering four fully-funded PhD studentships to UK students, available from September 2026.

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