CRG / “la Caixa” International PhD Programme Fellowships, Spain

CRG / “la Caixa” International PhD Programme Fellowships, Spain - The "la Caixa" Foundation was started in 2008 offering a scholarship program for outstanding students from around the world the opportunity to take a PhD in Biomedicine at the CRG (Center for Genomic Regulation) this year, 10 four-year scholarship offered to do a PhD in Biomedicine at the CRG.

The "la Caixa" Foundation is a non-profitmaking organization, which receives funds from the third largest financial entity in Spain, Caja de Ahorros y Pensiones de Barcelona, ​​"la Caixa". In terms of budget and business volume, "la Caixa" Foundation is among the ten most important foundation in the world.

Since 1982, "la Caixa" Foundation has run a variety of fellowship programs to allow students to learn Spanish in Spain postgraduate courses and other nations. In the past twenty five years, thousands of students have been able to develop their studies thanks to a scholarship from the Foundation.

The "la Caixa" Foundation CRG chose to start this program because the benefits of the research project, the international nature of the scientific team, the quality of technological equipment, inter-disciplinary nature of projects and the abundance of articles published in top-ranking scientific journals and the media.

The CRG is an international biomedical research institutes of excellence, created at the initiative of the Catalan Government, with the participation of the Pompeu Fabra University, and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. Its mission is to discover and advance knowledge for the public interest, public health and economic prosperity. The CRG is located at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB). Research at CRG is centered around six scientific programs, with a broad interdisciplinary collaboration in the following areas:

* Bioinformatics and Genomics
* Gene Regulation
* Your and Developmental Biology
* Differentiation and Cancer
* Genes and Disease
* Systems Biology

Criteria for eligibility

* Candidates can be of any nationality.
* Candidates must hold a university degree by September 2012, and must have a strong commitment to scientific research and excellent academic record.
* Applicants work at CRG for more than 3 months before the deadline will not be considered eligible.

If you have questions about your eligibility to enroll, please contact phdprogram@crg.es before submitting the application.

Duration
"La Caixa" peers are supported for a period of 4 years

Training and benefits
"La Caixa" colleagues will benefit from CRG Research and Training Program, which includes:

* International scientific circles. CRG is located at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), a cluster for biomedical research in southern Europe, which includes several other research institutes and more than 1000 biomedical researchers
* Advanced research training (training-through research, scientific courses and specific technologies and various seminars and CRG CRG / PRBB conference with international invited speakers)
* Career Development activities (INTERVAL program is offered to residents PRBB)
* Cutting-edge sophisticated core facilities
* Other initiatives and activities organized by PRBB and CRG
* Student community activities (Annual Retreat & Annual Symposium)
* International Competitive salary

Selection Process
Selection of partners will be based on academic qualifications of candidates' and research excellence.

* Pre-selection: Selection will be based on a pre-candidate's CV, letters of reference and research interests. Incomplete applications will be reviewed within one month after the deadline.
* Oral Interview: Short listed candidates will receive an invitation to visit the CRG for a period of three days of interviews will take place 9-14 weeks after the application deadline.
* Offering Fellowship: Offers will be made to the successful candidates shortly after the interview period. The selected students will have two weeks to accept the position and they have to start the scholarship no later than 1 September.

The group recruited in this call
For this call, CRG group leaders who have expressed interest in recruiting students is:

* Bioinfomatics and Genomics Program: Roderic Guigo, Cédric Notredame, Toni Gabaldón
* Your Biology and Program Development: Manuel Mendoza, Isabelle Vernos
* Differentiation and Cancer Program: Salvador Aznar, Maria Pia Cosma
* Gene Regulation Programme: Juan Valcárcel, Guillaume Filion
* Genes and Disease Program: Stephan Ossowski, Xavier Estivill
* Systems Biology Program: Matthieu Louis, Ben Lehner

Call Calendar

* Call the opening: November 2011
* Call deadline: February 13, 2012
* Pre-selection of candidates: mid. March 2012
* Oral interview: 16-19 April 2012
* Notice to candidates: May 2012 (approximately)
* Start date of scholarship: September 2012 (approximately)

For more information, please visit the official site: pasteur.crg.es