BioZone Scholarships
BioZone PhD candidates are eligible to apply for an exclusive BioZone Completion Scholarship in their penultimate year. This scholarship extends the candidate's stipend to a full four years. Currently, two BioZone completion Scholarships will be available annually (confirmed to 2026), and will be awarded on a competitive basis, evaluating candidates’ contribution to the BioZone community, the inter/multi/transdisciplinary outcomes of their research and feasibility of timely completion.
Furthermore, in any year, BioZOne PhD students are eligible to apply for exclusive BioZone Collaboration Grants. These grants support successful project applications that are collaborative, novel and multidisciplinary.
See below for past winners of the BioZone Completion Scholarship as well as previous successful BioZone Collaboration Grants.
BioZone Completion Scholarships
Emma Knowling (2025)
[insert thesis title]
George McColgan (2024)
[insert thesis title]
Samuel Maher (2023)
[insert thesis title]
Danielle Vahala (2023)
Development of innovative biomaterials to unravel the role of the tumour microenvironment in cancer metastasis
BioZone Collaboration Grants
Dane Webster, Emma Knowling, Hayley Ingram, Christopher Guneratne, and Adam Edwards (2025)
Investigating hyper-osmotic induced cytoplasmic paraspeckle and SFPQ phase separation dynamics underpinning neurological decline
George McColgan and Kai Metzner (2024)
Lighten Up: Assessing the effect of red and infrared light therapy on the extracellular matrix production capacity of adipose-derived stem cells for guided tissue regeneration
Ebrahim Vahabli, Samuel Maher, and Michael Vernon (2023)
Origami soft robots for functional magnetic manipulation to advance remote surgical intervention
Sebastian Amos and Eric Alves (2022)
Immune cells have feelings too: Exploring immune cell mechanobiology for improved immunotherapy outcomes