IDIBELL offers 10 projects for incoming INPhINIT fellowships

  • La Caixa Foundation concedes 35 fellowships for early-stage researchers of any nationality to pursue their PhD studies in Spanish and Portuguese research centres and units with excellence distinction.
  • IDIBELL offers 10 projects for incoming INPhINIT awardees from outside of Spain.
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La Caixa Foundation concedes 35 fellowships for early-stage researchers of any nationality to pursue their PhD studies in the best Spanish and Portuguese research centres and units with excellence distinction: Spanish Seal of Excellence Severo Ochoa, María de Maeztu or Health Institute Carlos III and Portuguese units accredited as “excellent” by the Fundação de Ciência e Tecnologia. This program is only addressed to PhD research projects on STEM disciplines: life sciences and health, experimental sciences, physics, chemistry and mathematics. In order to do the research in Spain, candidates must have resided or carried out their main activity in Spain for less than 12 months in the last 3 years. More information can be found here.

Aspirants must present their candidacy before January 27th, 2022, and the projects are meant to start on Fall Term 2022.

Selected candidates will choose between a list of specific projects, available here.

IDIBELL offers 10 spots for incoming INPhINIT awardees:

 

Neuroscience Area

Characterization and potentiation of motor, cognitive and emotional brain cortico-striatal circuits in people with Huntington’s disease diagnosis using an MRI neuroimaging approach
Dr. Estela Càmara Mancha – Diffusion MRI Brain Connectivity group

Development of next-generation stem cell-derived organoids using engineering strategies
Dr. Antonella Consiglio – Stem Cells and Neurodegeneration Laboratory

 

Translational Medicine Area

Development of crispr-cas technologies and modelling of human mutations in Caernorhabditis elegans
Dr. Julián Cerón Madrigal – Modeling human diseases in C. Elegans

Novel immunomodulatory and inflammation-resolver biologics against autoimmune diseases
Dr. Josep M. Aran – Immune-inflammatory Processes and Gene Therapy

Predoctoral Clinical Researcher for the Infectious Diseases-Infection Control group
Dr. Mireia Puig-Asensio – Epidemiology of bacterial infections. Research on pathogenesis and molecular basis of antimicrobial resistance

 

Cancer Area

Exploring novel oncologic targets hidden in the non-coding genome
Dr. Sonia-Vanina Forcales Fernández – Chromatin dynamics in cancer and cell fate

Food bioactive compounds and prostate cancer risk in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study. Scientific bases for future dietary recommendations.
Dr. Raul Zamora Ros – Nutrition and Cancer

New therapeutic strategies for malignant pleural mesothelioma
Dr. Ernest Nadal – Preclinical and experimental research in thoracic tumors

Towards a precision medicine using TGF-β inhibitors in hepatocellular carcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma
Dr. Isabel Fabregat – TGF-beta and Cancer

 

Regenerative Medicine Area

Characterization of post-transcriptional regulatory networks and their function in stablishing cell identity
Dr. Mireya Plass – Gene regulation of cell identity

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