http://www.vhir.org/larecerca/INCOMED/INCOMED_presentacio.asp?mv1=2&mv2=7&mh1=2&mh2=7&mh3=2&Idioma=ca
1. Aim
THE INCOMED programme aims to attract highly talented scientists seeking advanced research training and career development in all areas of biomedicine and clinical medicine at the Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR).
The 4-year programme will offer a total of 10 postdoctoral fellowships. Five fellowships will be offered in call 2012.
2. Eligibility criteria
- Candidates must hold a PhD Degree at the moment of application of the fellowship
- Candidates must be non-residents undertaking trans-national mobility. The researcher must not have lived, worked or studied in the country of the host organization for more than 12 months in the past three years immediately prior to the call deadline.
- Candidates must have at least one publication as first author (either accepted, in press or published) at the time of the deadline
- Candidates must engage in an interdisciplinary research project
3. Duration
The fellowship is awarded for a period of two years. Candidates will have a maximum of three months to start the fellowship from September 2012. This period maybe extended if it is needed to finalize unfinished research work in their previous organization.
4. Funding
Fellows will receive an annual stipend of €45,000 for living allowance, and a fixed amount to cover expenses linked to the relocation of the fellow’s family in the host country (€6,000 per year). An additional amount of €8,400 per year will be granted for laboratory-based research for each fellow.
5. Training and benefits
Fellows taking part in the INCOMED Programme will benefit from an Advanced Scientific Training and Career Development activities:
The Advanced Scientific Training programme includes: individual research training, scientific and technology courses, and scientific and financial management of the research project.
The Career Development Activities will include the membership in the VHIR postdoctoral committee, presentation of results at VHIR and international scientific conferences, and participation in laboratory and journal clubs.
6. Research fields
- Identification of biomarkers in inflammatory diseases mediated by immune complexes from genomic data
- Molecular Oncology
- Advanced therapies for heart repair
- Molecular mechanisms involved in brain tumours
- Neuroprotection: Animal Models of Brain Ischemia
- Apoptosis in nervous system
- Molecular mechanisms in the pathogenesis of traumatic brain injury
- Renal damage and regeneration
- Myocardial protection against ischemic injury. From cells to patients
- Work-related diseases, asthma and fibrosis
- HER2-driven metastasis in breast cancer
