pHioniC (Marie Skłodowska Curie ITN): 15 PhD Positions 1727 views

The Marie Skłodowska Curie Innovative Training Network on pH and Ion Transport in Pancreatic Cancer – pHioniC, funded by the European Commission and is inviting applications for 15 PhD positions.

Research areas: Pancreatic cancer

Requirements:

• Applications are open for highly motivated and talented PhD students holding a Master degree in Medical Science, Biology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Physics, Chemistry, Bioinformatics or related fields, with relevant preparative training.
• Applicant must possess excellent command on English (spoken and written), communication skills as well as team spirit.
• Applicants must be in the first 4 years after obtaining their Master´s degree and must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the host country for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately before the recruitment date.

Applications:

Applications are to be submitted to the pHioniC coordinator Albrecht Schwab at the following address phionic@uni-muenster.de including the following:

• Motivation letter
• CV
• Copies of the relevant certificates
• Brief summaries of your Bachelor and Master theses (15 lines each)
• 02-03 References
• Prioritised list of the three preferred pHioniC laboratories

Available positions:

• 1 PhD at the University of Münster, Germany. Principal Investigator (PI) and coordinator Albrecht Schwab (aschwab@uni-muenster.de): Modulation of pressure sensing of pancreatic stellate cells by pancreatic pH.
• 1 PhD at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. PI Pawel Swietach (swietach@dpag.ox.ac.uk): Modelling and understanding spatio-temporal pH dynamics in PDAC in silico using in vivo and in vitro data.
• 3 PhDs at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
• 1 PhD at the University of Bari, Italy. PI Stephan J Reshkin (reshkin@uniba.it): Role of ECM composition and stromal cells in determining tumour and cancer stem cell pH/O2 handling and therapeutic response.
• 1 PhD at the University of Florence, Italy. PI Annarosa Arcangeli (arcangeli@unifi.it): Targeting ion channel and adhesion receptor interaction during PDAC progression by pH-sensitive engineered antibodies.
• 1 PhD at the University of Lille, France. PI Natalia Prevarskaya (Prevarskaya@univ-lille1.fr): Role of Ca2+ permeable channels in PDAC and PSCs.
• 1 PhD at the University of Picardie Jules Verne in Amiens, France. PI Halima Ouadid-Ahidouch (ahidouch-ouadid@u-picardie.fr): Expression profiling of pH-regulatory and -sensitive transportome: epigenetic analysis and correlation with clinical parameters.
• 2 PhDs at the Max-Planck-Institute for Experimental Medicine.
• 1 PhD at the University of Kiel, Germany. PI Anna Trauzold (atrauzold@email.uni-kiel.de): Acquired nuclear functions of TRAIL-receptors as a consequence and motor of pH gradient reversal in PDAC.
• 1 PhD at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. PI György Panyi (panyi@med.unideb.hu): Ion channels of immune cells and their regulation by the micro- environment in PDAC and its interface with normal tissue.
• 1 PhD at Percuros B.V., Leiden, NL. PI Alan Chan (B.Chan@lumc.nl): Molecular imaging of the microenvironment-transportome interplay in PDAC.
• 1 PhD at Heidelberg-Pharma Research GmbH, Germany. PI Andreas Pahl (A.Pahl@hdpharma.com): Generation of PDAC specific ADCs and preclinical profiling.