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17 PhD Programs – Fully Funded at University of Sydney, Australia

Do you have a Master’s degree and are looking for fully funded PhD opportunities? The University of Sydney, Australia is now accepting applications for several funded PhD programs across a range of research areas.

1. Fully Funded PhD in Contemporary Art

Summary of Funded PhD Program

Contemporary Art research at SCA provides artists the opportunity to develop a specific area of interest into a substantial body of work, and to articulate their practice within a broader art historical, theoretical and philosophical context. Through sustained, rigorous investigation, artists undertaking a research degree make a significant contribution to our understanding of contemporary visual art.

A research degree requires in-depth study in a specialised area, supervised by a member of SCA’s academic staff. This research takes the form of a major thesis. SCA offers two modes of research: a traditional written thesis, or a thesis comprising a substantial exhibition and a written thesis. 

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2. Fully Funded PhD in 

Summary of Funded PhD Program

The project will deal with connecting nutritional geometry principles developed by Profs Stephen Simpson and David Raubenheimer at the Charles Perkins Centre of the University of Sydney with sustainable development goals. The idea is to source, process and analyse food- and sustainability-related data, with the aim to portray and graph food items, meals and diets in the traditional nutritional geometry triangle, against proxy indicators for sustainable development goals. This novel way of connecting nutrition and sustainability will allow identifying win-wins and trade-offs when developing food- and nutrition-related sustainability policies.

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3. Fully Funded PhD in NHMRC Translational Australian Clinical Toxicology

Summary of Funded PhD Program

A range of PhD research project opportunities in human toxicology exist within the TACT program. We are looking for talented and motivated doctoral candidates, with or without a primary scholarship, who are not afraid of a challenge. You may have a research idea of your own or you may like to take up one of the topics currently being investigated by TACT. While TACT does not normally provide full scholarship funding, a top-up scholarship opportunity exists within the TACT program for candidates with a primary scholarship.

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4. Fully Funded PhD in Novel therapies for preventing kidney failure in chronic kidney disease

Summary of Funded PhD Program

Kidney fibrosis is a key process driving progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD) toward end stage kidney disease (ESKD), yet to date there is no established treatment specifically preventing kidney fibrosis. In Australia currently almost 21,000 patients with ESKD require expensive life-long dialysis or a kidney transplant to stay alive. TGF-β has long been identified as the most important cytokine causing fibrosis in all inflammatory diseases. However, inhibition of TGF-β will also suppress its anti-inflammatory and wound healing functions, a controversy for decades in treatment of fibro-inflammatory diseases of all organs. 

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5. Fully Funded PhD in Koala Infectious Diseases

Summary of Funded PhD Program

We are seeking expressions of interest in our PhD program or development of postdoctoral opportunities. Koala numbers have been in severe decline for many years and in most states the species’ status is listed as “vulnerable”, based on a dramatic reduction in koala numbers over the past 5-10 years, over most of its range. The threat facing koala populations today is complex and based on numerous challenges including; habitat loss, widespread and serious disease, urbanization, domestic dog attacks, motor vehicle collisions, and climatic extremes.

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6. Fully Funded PhD in Immune fitness as a measure of animal welfare

Summary of Funded PhD Program

Animals have long been bred to encourage the inheritance of production traits that enable high-yield. This has minimised recognition of the potential impacts on the health of the animal and has often been associated with compromised health outcomes. Currently there is poor understanding of the overall immunological ‘fitness’ of production animals and basic questions remain unanswered: what is the physiological basis that enables some animals to cope with production stresses and what is an effective measure of the immune component? Conversely, what immune measures are correlated to or indicative of an animal at risk of poor performance? Immunocompetence or immune fitness has genetic, nutritional and environmental basis and an epigenetic influence through the gut microbiome.

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7. Fully Funded PhD in Total Synthesis of Plant Growth Promoters

Summary of Funded PhD Program

Plants, including important food crops such as wheat and rice, form symbiotic relationships with fungi which allows for nutrient transfer. Critical to this symbiotic relationship is a family of molecules called strigolactones. If agricultural scientists could access plant-specific strigolactones, they could ensure that only target crops uptake soil nutrients. This PhD project will entail the synthesis of all canonical strigolactones based on a late stage C-H activation strategy. This will enable our collaborators in plant science to identify key strigolactones and enable us to design next generation agrichemicals. 

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8. Fully Funded PhD in Molecular genetics of plant development

Summary of Funded PhD Program

Development and growth of a multicelluar organism from a single cell requires correct temporal and spatial regulation of cellular gene expression. Regulation of gene expression can be achieved by many mechanisms acting at the level of transcription, post-transcription, translation and/or post-translation. We are using molecular genetics to understand how genes and regulation of gene expression control plant development. We focus our research on plant shoot development, in particular on plant shoot meristem function and on leaf development. Plant shoot meristems contain a population of stem cells that enable production of organs such as leaves and flowers.

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9. Fully Funded PhD in ‘Productive Ageing’ – Ageing and productivity in the workforce

Summary of Funded PhD Program

The global significance of ageing well and ageing productively has been brought back to the forefront by three major worldwide trends. First, the demographic trend of people living longer, healthier lives, will mean greater proportions of healthy individuals living well into their 70s, 80s, and 90s. Second, there is an economic impetus with many governments and policy makers implementing strategies aimed at encouraging older people to remain healthy and productive for longer to minimise dependence in strictly economic terms. Third, there is a social/cultural trend with many older people showing less inclination to retire in the more traditional sense from career work to near-total leisure, and choosing to (if possible) remain active participants in society and continue their engagement in productive activities.

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10. Fully Funded PhD in Health Governance, Law and Ethics

Summary of Funded PhD Program

Sydney Law School offers one of the nation’s leading postgraduate programs in health and medical law. Health law provids wide-ranging interdisciplinary coverage of contemporary legal and social issues in health care. The area would be of particular interest to lawyers with a health/professional liability practice, hospital and other health organization administrators, doctors, nurses and other eligible health professionals. An exciting feature of the Health Law is the opportunity for dialogue between the legal and health professions about legal and ethical issues of relevance to both practice and administration.

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11. Fully Funded PhD in The interaction of chronic kidney disease and cancer

Summary of Funded PhD Program

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is an important health problem, with increasing prevalence as the population ages. End stage kidney disease requires treatment with dialysis or transplantation, both associated with considerable morbidity and health costs, and people with ESKD have reduced life expectancy. Chronic diseases are often not independent of each other. ESKD is associated with increased risk of cancer at most sites. A major cause of ESKD is diabetic nephropathy, and post transplant immunosuppression is associated with increased risk of new onset diabetes. CKD is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease. 

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12. Fully Funded PhD in osteoarthritis

Summary of Funded PhD Program

In his current work Professor Hunter is investigating a number of key elements in osteoarthritis including (but not limited to) the epidemiology of osteoarthritis, genetic epidemiology of osteoarthritis, the role of biomarkers in understanding OA aetiopathogenesis, the application of imaging to better understand structure and function with application to both epidemiologic research and clinical trials, the application of novel therapies in disease management and health service system delivery of chronic disease management.

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13. Fully Funded PhD in Drug Discovery and Medicinal Chemistry for the Central Nervous System

Summary of Funded PhD Program

The Drug Discovery Research Unit is located at the Brain and Mind Research Institute and the School of Chemistry at the University of Sydney. Research is interdisciplinary and built around the key themes of medicinal chemistry and drug discovery. In this domain understanding drug-protein and drug-binding site interactions is a key component which allows us to obtain structure-activity relationships of bioactive CNS molecules and therefore the rational design of more efficacious treatments for diseases of the brain We have an extensive medicinal chemistry program evaluating structure-activity relationships of a number of molecules varying from polycyclic to heterocyclic scaffolds that interact with specific targets we think are involved in brain disease.

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14. Fully Funded PhD in Emerging parasitic disease: epidemiological, diagnostic and experimental approach

Summary of Funded PhD Program

The project Emerging parasitic disease: epidemiological, diagnostic and experimental approach will focus on development and elucidation of the epidemiology of newly or neglected disease in veterinary parasitology including (i) haemo- / tissue- parasites (Atoxoplasma, Babesia) and (ii) gastrointestinal parasites (Giardia, Cryptosporidium, Tritrichomonas). This project aims to elucidate the molecular identity and relationships between different isolates using PCR diagnostic techniques using rDNA and protein coding genes. On the other hand, this study will deliver and validate the PCR diagnostic protocol for epidemiological studies and elucidating the biology of these organisms. 

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15. Fully Funded PhD in Molecular investigations of receptors involved in neurological disorders

Summary of Funded PhD Program

The Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience is located at the Brain and Mind Research Institute (BMRI) in the Camperdown health research precinct. We investigate molecular and biochemical aspects of neural receptors in health and disease. In collaboration with The Ramaciotti Imaging Centre at BMRI we study the interaction between novel biomarkers (drugs and imaging probes) and neuroreceptors using classical molecular biology and protein chemistry approaches coupled with non-invasive imaging technologies that will improve our understanding of disease.

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16. Fully Funded PhD in Amino acid sensing mechanisms in human biology

Summary of Funded PhD Program

We are funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council to study the mechanisms by which amino acid sensing receptors control hormone secretion, appetite and satiety, and cell fate. This offers opportunities for PhD topics in the following areas: determining how protein regulates calcium metabolism, determining how protein regulates body weight via satiety hormones e.g., cholecystokinin, determining how amino acid sensing mechanisms can be used to control cancer.

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17. Fully Funded PhD in Medicine use in children with asthma

Summary of Funded PhD Program

This project will use a staged approach. A qualitative phase of the study will involve interviewing parents and carers of children with asthma to explore their perceptions and actual use of asthma medications. The results of this phase will be used to develop a quantitative questionnaire on children’s asthma medication use. This phase of the study will be conducted on a larger scale. The results of this project will be used to develop educational interventions targeted at consumers as well as health care practitioners to facilitate quality use of medicines in children with asthma.

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