Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project We will establish a prospective dengue cohort at University Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) to identify early blood-cell signatures predicting severe disease. Peripheral blood will be collected at first presentation; PBMCs and plasma will be processed and cryopreserved at JCSMHS/UMMC, with fresh-blood immunophenotyping (including neutrophils) performed in Kuala Lumpur.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 26 October 2026
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project We will develop a streamlined in-silico pipeline to prioritise natural anti-dengue compounds using molecular dynamics (MD) and QSAR modelling. Curated plant-derived and pharmacopeial libraries will be standardised, docked against dengue and host targets identified in Projects A-B, and evaluated via MD for complex stability (RMSD/RMSF, hydrogen bonds) and binding free energy (MM/GBSA).
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 29 October 2026
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project The quantifications of humans exposure to biotic and abiotic contaminants remains as one of the most significant technical gaps in human exposome studies. This project aims to resolve this technical challenge by developing a continuous biosensing platform capable of detecting and quantifying nanoplastics (NPs) and biotoxins directly interfaced with the human microenvironment.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 30 October 2026
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project This project addresses the growing environmental problem caused by single-use plastic waste, particularly in food packaging and cutlery. Despite Malaysia’s abundant oil palm biomass, especially empty fruit bunches (EFB), its conversion into biodegradable materials remains underutilized.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 30 October 2026
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project This project addresses the growing environmental problem caused by single-use plastic waste, particularly in food packaging and cutlery. Despite Malaysia’s abundant oil palm biomass, especially empty fruit bunches (EFB), its conversion into biodegradable materials remains underutilized.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 30 October 2026
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project The human exposome is defined by the totality of environmental exposures across a lifetime, which represents one of the most complex determinants of human health (IHEN). Although, there are growing awareness of environmental contaminants in non-communicable diseases, the connections between specific exposome inputs and the cell state dynamics and responses are poorly characterised.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 30 October 2026
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project Trace biological residues from casual contact, such as sweat and epithelial cells, contain valuable DNA and molecular biomarkers for forensic investigations. However, conventional collection methods like swabbing often show low recovery efficiency and may cause degradation or contamination of minimal samples.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 30 October 2026
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) affects an estimated 15–25% of pregnancies in Malaysia, contributing to adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes such as preeclampsia, macrosomia, emergency delivery, and long-term metabolic disorders for both mother and child.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 30 October 2026
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project Higher education institutions across the globe are undergoing significant workforce transformation. Driven by increasing marketisation, performance-based funding, research assessment frameworks, and growing student enrolments, universities have progressively moved away from the traditional integrated academic model in which teaching, research, and service were viewed as mutually reinforcing components of academic work.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 30 October 2026
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project Using the Project-1 hiPSC platform, this project builds AI pipelines to learn disease-relevant representations from cellular images, fused with multi-omics. Models will classify diagnosis and predict treatment response with strict donor-level splits, cross-regional external validation, and fairness audits (sex/ethnicity stratification). Interpretable AI (e.g., attribution maps, SHAP) will nominate mechanism-anchored biomarkers and candidate interventions.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 30 October 2026
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project Climate change is projected to increase the frequency and severity of extreme weather events (e.g., intense rainfall and riverine flooding), which can cause severe mobility disruptions. Such events impede personal travel, disrupt supply chains and public transport operations, and block access to critical services, disproportionately affecting low-income and transport-disadvantaged populations.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 30 October 2026
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project Alzheimer’s disease (AD) remains difficult to diagnose early, as current methods rely on cognitive testing, neuroimaging, and invasive cerebrospinal fluid sampling. These approaches are costly, time-consuming, and often lack sensitivity during the earliest stages of disease, when treatment would be most effective.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 30 October 2026
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project Alzheimer’s disease (AD) causes progressive dementia, and current treatments only slow symptoms. Overactive microglia drive AD pathology, making them key therapeutic targets. Mesenchymal stem cell-derived exosomes (MSC-Ex) offer a promising, low-immunogenic, cell-free therapy with immunomodulatory effects. To address delivery challenges, Monash has patented an intranasal MSC-Ex dry powder.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 30 October 2026
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project Microplastics are increasingly found in the food chain, with Malaysia and Indonesia among the most impacted due to high plastic consumption. This project will develop a nano-enabled detection system using functionalised nanomaterials for rapid, sensitive and selective identification of microplastics in food.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 30 October 2026
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project The health risks associated with microplastics in blood include cerebral thrombosis, endothelial dysfunction, accelerated cardiovascular diseases progression and systemic inflammation. Hence, techniques that can separate microplastics from blood are being explored for development as an intervention strategy. Current methods for separating microplastics from blood employ bulk filtering, which is inefficient and impractical from a clinical standpoint.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 30 October 2026
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project The presence of microplastics within the tumour microenvironment (TME) has been discovered recently, with studies demonstrating a tendency for these microplastics to accumulate in the non-proliferating regions of the tumour. This was hypothesised to be due to the redistribution of the microparticles during cell division.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 30 October 2026
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project Smart infrastructure systems such as intelligent transportation networks, railway monitoring systems, energy grids, and industrial automation platforms increasingly rely on optical fiber technologies for real-time sensing and communication.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 30 October 2026
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project While deep learning has shown remarkable performance in medical imaging benchmarks, translating these results to real-world clinical deployment remains challenging. Models trained on data from one hospital or population often fail when applied elsewhere due to distributional shifts.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 31 October 2026
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project Overview: Packaging cartons such as Tetrapak consist of multi-layered composite materials, typically paperboard, polyethylene and aluminium, that present significant recycling challenges. This PhD project aims to develop advanced separation technologies to efficiently recover these valuable laminated materials and support a circular economy in sustainable packaging.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 1 November 2026
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project This project focuses on the development of advanced modelling approaches to support the design and optimisation of emerging low-carbon energy systems in industrial applications. The research will involve integrating process simulation, system-level analysis, and data-driven techniques to evaluate performance, efficiency, and operational reliability.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 31 December 2026
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project This project focuses on developing financial and economic modelling frameworks to evaluate emerging low-carbon energy systems in industrial applications. The research will integrate system performance insights with techno-economic and cash flow analysis to assess capital investment, operating costs, and long-term economic viability.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 31 December 2026
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project Project Description This project will develop and validate clinically interpretable risk-prediction models using de-identified longitudinal electronic medical record data from adults with early-onset heart failure or cardiomyopathy receiving care at Institut Jantung Negara.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 24 January 2027
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project The increasing concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) is a major driver of climate change, creating an urgent need for technologies that can simultaneously mitigate emissions and generate sustainable energy. This project focuses on the photocatalytic conversion of CO2 into value-added fuels and chemicals using advanced perovskite-based materials.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 30 January 2027
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project Ammonia is emerging as a promising carbon-free energy carrier and a critical feedstock for global food production. However, conventional ammonia synthesis via the Haber-Bosch process is highly energy-intensive and contributes significantly to global greenhouse gas emissions. This project aims to develop advanced thermocatalytic systems for efficient nitrogen activation and ammonia synthesis under milder and more sustainable operating conditions.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 31 January 2027
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project This project will develop culturally responsive prediction models for cardiac rehabilitation programme (CRP) adherence and longer-term outcomes among adults undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) at Institut Jantung Negara.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 31 January 2027
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project The rapid growth of electric vehicles (EVs) and the integration of renewable energy pose major challenges for grid stability and energy management. Existing vehicle-to-grid (V2G) models struggle to accurately predict available capacity due to uncertainties in EV usage and computational delays in real-time decision-making.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 31 January 2027
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project This research project integrates Artificial Intelligence, mathematical modelling, and nutritional science to build a next-generation therapeutic food recommendation system. By leveraging secondary clinical data, the project aims to optimize dietary strategies targeting malnutrition.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 31 January 2027
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project Hydrogen is widely recognised as a key energy carrier for a low-carbon future, yet conventional water electrolysis is constrained by high energy requirements associated with the oxygen evolution reaction. This project explores the electrochemical valorisation of glycerol, an abundant by-product of the biodiesel industry, as an alternative anodic reaction for the production of green hydrogen and value-added chemicals.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 31 January 2027
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project Growing evidence shows that climate-induced temperature rises directly accelerate bacterial growth and resistance mutations, while extreme weather events indirectly affect healthcare disruptions and antibiotic misuse. This mixed-methods project will investigate how localised climate extremes - specifically heatwaves and flooding - influence the prevalence and resistance profiles of ESKAPEE pathogens within a Malaysian hospital’s catchment area.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 31 January 2027
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project This project addresses the behavioural, social and system-level drivers of inappropriate antimicrobial use in community settings using a One Health approach. The project will use qualitative interviews, focus groups and stakeholder mapping to identify local beliefs, decision-making pathways, barriers and opportunities influencing antimicrobial use.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 31 January 2027
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project Climate change is intensifying the environmental stresses bacteria face, and rising temperatures are increasingly linked to antimicrobial resistance (AMR). This project examines how climate-relevant stressors reshape resistant versus sensitive Escherichia coli. In the first phase, E. coli will be isolated and characterised from stool samples collected from consenting volunteers, yielding matched resistant and sensitive strains.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 31 January 2027
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project The Malaysian government has recently begun deploying microtransit services to address persistent first-mile/last-mile (FMLM) gaps that continue to constrain public transport ridership. However, existing planning parameters, coverage area, fleet size, seating capacity, and headway, have largely not been derived from empirical demand patterns or traveller characteristics.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 31 January 2027
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project Development of Palm-Kernel Milk as Therapeutic Foods: Macro-Micro Nutrient Interplay, Organoleptic Performance and Shelf Stability Therapeutic food relies on a precise composition of macro- and micronutrients. The interplay between these components is critical to ensure efficient nutrient delivery, high palatability, and robust shelf stability that satisfies the precise clinical needs of malnourished individuals.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 31 January 2027
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project Chronic and infected wounds remain a major clinical burden due to persistent biofilm formation, delayed healing, and limited efficacy of conventional dressings. This project aims to develop a multifunctional anti-biofilm wound dressing designed for precision infection control and enhanced tissue regeneration.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 31 January 2027
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project The rapid adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) offers an opportunity to advance sustainable transportation, but its success depends on how charging infrastructure aligns with real-world mobility demand and user needs.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 31 January 2027
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project Childhood malnutrition is one of the major causes of impaired growth, morbidity and mortality. High-quality, low-cost meal supplementation would support the growth and recovery of the targeted population. This research project addresses two primary objectives: 1. To conduct a market survey on the available therapeutic foods and oral nutrition supplements nationally and internationally. (Year 1) 2.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 31 January 2027
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project Climate change and extreme weather events are increasingly recognised as drivers of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), yet their influence on the human gut microbiome and resistome remains poorly understood. This project will engage a community-based cohort to investigate climate-associated changes in gut microbial composition and AMR gene dynamics longitudinally.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 31 January 2027
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project Infectious diseases remain a major global health burden, with early and accurate diagnosis continuing to pose significant clinical challenges. Topical and wound-associated bacterial infections are particularly difficult to manage because bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation can reduce antibiotic susceptibility, delay healing, and complicate treatment decisions.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 31 January 2027
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project The rapid integration of renewable energy resources, distributed energy resources (DERs), electric vehicles (EVs), battery energy storage systems (BESS), and intelligent grid-edge devices is fundamentally transforming conventional electrical power systems into highly decentralized and cyber-physical smart grids.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project Malaysia generates a large and continuous supply of oil palm biomass residues, which can be converted into ethanol through pretreatment, enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation. Beyond its established role as a fuel additive and industrial solvent, ethanol is also a key intermediate for the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from oil palm biomass via the alcohol-to-jet (AtJ) route.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project The global transition towards clean energy has placed green hydrogen (H₂) at the forefront of decarbonisation strategies. Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting, which directly harnesses sunlight to drive H₂ production within a single integrated device, represents a promising route to solar-driven, low-carbon hydrogen without external electrical input.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Malaysia
Monash University Malaysia
About the Project This project aims to develop matheuristic algorithm which combines mathematical programming and metaheuristic methods to solve bi-objective of multi vehicles green inventory routing problem with one way product substitution by considering customer satisfaction (MVGIRP-PS). There is a fleet of heterogeneous vehicles to transport the products from each supplier to meet the demand of the assembly plant over the planning finite horizon.
- Location
- Subang Jaya, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)