Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT)

The Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) and the University of Oxford are collaborating on a range of joint doctoral research projects across several research areas.

These projects bring together Oxford’s academic expertise and EIT’s mission-driven research, enabling researchers from both organisations to tackle global challenges through science and technology. EIT-funded students undertake significant, original doctoral research leading to a University of Oxford DPhil, while contributing directly to ambitious EIT research programmes.

Students receive full funding for their doctoral studies and become part of EIT’s wider research community, working alongside leading researchers and contributing to work with real-world impact.

There are two routes to applying for an Ellison Institute of Technology project at the University of Oxford:

1. Apply for a course that has been established to provide only EIT projects; or
2. Apply for an EIT project being offered by an existing Oxford postgraduate course.

Application routes vary by course and project, so please refer to the relevant information for each opportunity. 

This course offers Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) projects, in addition to the list of projects shown on its course page. To apply, follow the instructions on the relevant project page:

• Developing a human Biomimetic 3D platform to model deep tissue bacterial infections

This course offers Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) projects, in addition to the list of projects shown on its course page. To apply, follow the instructions on the relevant project page:

• Virome metagenomics from clinical samples
• Cell-state-aware AI for predicting antifungal treatment response and resistance emergence
• Engineering carbon allocation in plant cells
• Molecular regulation of terpene biosynthesis

This course offers Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) projects, in addition to the list of projects shown on its course page. To apply, follow the instructions on the relevant project page:

• Next-generation nanopore technologies for biomolecular analysis and diagnostics
• Programmable membrane proteins for nanoscale transport and sensing

This course offers Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT)  projects, in addition to the list of projects shown on its course page. To apply, follow the instructions on the relevant project page:

• AI for predicting and understanding antibiotic resistance in Mycobacteria: learning from genomes and protein structures
• Decoding protective immunity against extraintestinal Escherichia coli 

This course offers Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) projects, in addition to the list of projects shown on its course page. To apply, follow the instructions on the relevant project page:

• Discovery of antigenic targets and correlates of protection for next generation gonorrhoea vaccine development
• AI-guided discovery and structure-informed engineering of Staphylococcus aureus antigens using human nasal-colonisation immune signatures
• AI-guided discovery and structure-informed design of serotype-independent pneumococcal protein antigens using human challenge immune signatures 

This course offers Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) projects, in addition to the list of projects shown on its course page. To apply, follow the instructions on the relevant project page:

• Optimising the implementation of metagenomic sequencing for lower respiratory tract and bloodstream infections through integrated epidemiological, behavioural and health-economic modelling

This course offers Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) projects, in addition to the list of projects shown on its course page. To apply, follow the instructions on the relevant project page:

• Engineering 3D brain circuits for modelling neurodegenerative diseases
• Biocomputing with 3D printed neural tissues
• 3D cardiac Tissues integrated with soft iontronic devices