AITHYRA, the Research Institute for Biomedical Artificial Intelligence of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, is recruiting PhD students for its fully funded four-year International PhD Program in AI for Biomedicine in Vienna, starting 1 September 2027. Projects sit between machine learning, experimental biology, chemistry and medicine; the institute lists infectious diseases among its disease areas, but the pages state no phage topic. The minimum gross salary is EUR 2,832.10 a month, paid 14 times a year, and students of all nationalities may apply; two references are mandatory. Applications and both references are due 1 November 2026, 23:59 CET (Vienna time); online interviews follow on 30 November to 1 December 2026. Logged under topic ai-science.