Description

IRB Barcelona is a world-class research centre devoted to understanding fundamental questions about human health and disease. Created in 2005 by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Government of Catalonia) and the University of Barcelona, IRB Barcelona is a Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence.

The institute is devoted to conducting research of excellence in biomedicine and to transferring results to clinical practice, thus improving people’s quality of life, while simultaneously promoting the training of outstanding researchers, technology transfer, and public communication of science. Its 29 laboratories and 7 core facilities address basic questions in biology, chemistry and medicine.

The MSCA grant initiative aims to foster the creativity and innovation of PhD-holding researchers seeking to acquire new skills through advanced training, international collaboration, interdisciplinary work, and cross-sectoral mobility.

Postdoctoral candidates are encouraged to review the list of IRB labs currently accepting MSCA fellows (see below) to identify research areas that align with their interests, get in relation with supervisors, and start preparing a joint proposal:

Cancer Science Programme:

Signalling and Cell Cycle Laboratory

Pediatric Cancer Epigenetics Laboratory

Aging and Metabolism

Stem Cells and Cancer Laboratory

Innate Immune Biology Laboratory

Gene Translation Laboratory

Quantitative Stem Cell Dynamics

Mitochondrial Biology and Tissue Regeneration

Mechanisms of Disease

Comparative Genomics Laboratory

Targeted protein degradation and drug discovery

 Eligibility

• Supported fellows must be in possession of a doctoral degree before call deadline.
• At the call deadline, supported researchers must have a maximum of 8 years fulltime equivalent experience in research, measured from the date of award of the doctoral degree.
• Recruited researchers must comply with the following mobility rule: they must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of the beneficiary (for European Postdoctoral Fellowships), or the host organisation for the outgoing phase (for Global Postdoctoral Fellowships) for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before the call deadline.
• Supported researchers can be of any nationality. However, researchers going to a third country (Global Postdoctoral Fellowship), must be nationals or long-term residents of EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries.
• Resubmissions: proposals involving the same recruiting organisation (and for Global Postdoctoral Fellowships also the associated partner hosting the outgoing phase) and individual researcher submitted to the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 and having received a score of less than 70% must not be resubmitted.

More info at MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024.