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Our goal Rare diseases are affecting more than 30 Million people in the EU and are in most cases caused by genetic mutations. The only curative treatment for patients suffering from these diseases is gene therapy, but many technical problems still need to be solved before safe and affordable somatic gene therapy becomes a clinical routine. The aim of the EU funded Doctoral Network “Gene Therapy of Rare Diseases” (GetRadi) is to train 10 PhD...

Researchers of any nationality can develop their career through public funding linked to European Research Council (ERC) projects, even if they do not receive an ERC Grant. Recipients of ERC grants can use their funding to recruit other researchers and team members for their project. On average, each team has 4-5 members. Since its inception, ERC funding has helped create jobs for thousands of researchers. The EURAXESS Jobs portal currently...

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Staff Exchanges (MSCA-SE) support up to four-year joint research and innovation projects implemented by seconding and/or hosting eligible staff members. The next call is due to open on Thursday, October 6th, 2022. The call is open to international consortia of universities, research institutions, businesses, SMEs, and other non-academic organizations to exchange their staff for up to 12 months.   MSCA Staff...

11 PhD positions are available in the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Network “MITGEST – Quality control of the mitochondrial gene expression system in health and disease”. MITGEST unites world-class academic excellence in mtDNA maintenance and expression with private sector expertise in nucleic acid chemistry and the development of mitochondrial therapeutics. The consortium includes the Institute of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, Radboud...

Interested in applying for MSCA funding? You might not know the programme’s synergies with the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). A new publication explains the programmes’ connections and potential benefits. Common goals Both the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) bring together a wide range of groups from higher education, research, business, industry and...

IBSA Foundation was established in 2012 in Lugano, Switzerland, by the pharmaceutical company IBSA Institut Biochimique SA. With the aim of promoting and allowing young and talented researchers to do great science, IBSA Foundation for scientific research offers 6 fellowships of € 30,000 in the following research fields: dermatology, endocrinology, fertility/urology, orthopaedics/rheumatology/pain medicine and for the 2022 special edition “...

Are you an innovative thinker eager to develop novel methods and technologies for the life sciences? Are you driven by curiosity and impact? Do you wish to become an expert in service development, provision and research infrastructure management in academia or industry? If so, we would like to hear from you! Here is why. The life sciences are increasingly relying on services provided by the core facilities, synchrotrons, data services and other...

The call is due to open in October 2022.   Opportunities for the development of European space downstream applications For Copernicus downstream (applications), the calls are managed by the European Space Agency (EUSPA) and are published here. EUSPA is involved in Horizon Europe to stimulate the market and support mainly the creation of commercial solutions for the EU space downstream sector. Space is placed under the pillar II of Horizon Europe...

The Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research (CGA) in Germany is a joint venture of the University of Cologne Excellence Cluster on Stress Responses in Aging- Associated Diseases (CECAD), the University Hospital Cologne, the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing and the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research. Cologne has emerged as a leading global research cluster with a stellar constellation of institutes and scientists dedicated...