PhD grant 2010

Highlights:

1. Applications are being accepted for a PhD Grant to work in the European Project “Advanced Magnetic nanoparticles deliver smart Processes and Products for Life”, at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Chemical Sciences, University of Salamanca, Spain.
2. Duration: 12 months with the possibility of renewal until the end of the Project (June, 2013).
3. Starting date: Expected on June-July 2010
4. Project description: Development of techniques, procedures and devices (pilot and laboratorial scale) of magnetic separation and classification in order to be able to use specially functionalized magnetic nanoparticles in pharmaceutical and food product applications.
5. Individual Profile: B. Sc. and/ or Master degree in areas related to the thematic of the project (as for example: Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology, Biological Engineering, Chemistry, Materials, Physics, etc.).
6. Documentation to send: detailed Curriculum Vitae, presentation letter, photocopies of academic certificates and passport. It is not necessary to authenticate the photocopies which will be validated against the originals in a later phase of the evaluation process.

PhD position in Natural products

Highlights:

1. The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Copenhagen is pleased to announce that 7 PhD fellowships will be available from 1 July 2010 or as soon as possible thereafter. Applications are invited for the three-year fellowship from candidates that hold or expect to hold a master's degree in a field relevant to the following projects:
2. NATURAL PRODUCTS RESEARCH
   Development of SERCA inhibitors using metabolites of metabolically engineered Physcomitrella patens as starting materials. Main supervisor: MSO Professor Søren Brøgger Christensen, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, phone +45 3533 6253 (email: sbc@farma.ku.dk).
3. NATURAL PRODUCTS RESEARCH
   Natural product discovery from endophytic fungi based on hyphenated NMR with cryogenic probe detection. Main supervisor: Professor Jerzy W. Jaroszewski, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, phone +45 3533 6372 (email: jj@farma.ku.dk).
4. MOLECULAR PHARMACOLOGY
   Molecular pharmacology of GABA transporters: Probing for subtype selectivity using natural products. Main supervisor: Associate Professor Petrine Wellendorph, Department of Medicinal Chemistry (email: pw@farma.ku.dk).
5. NATURAL PRODUCTS RESEARCH
   Design and synthesis of SERCA inhibitors base don the pharmacophore of thapsigargin. Main supervisor: MSO Professor Søren Brøgger Christensen, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, phone +45 3533 6253 (email: sbc@farma.ku.dk).
6. ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
   Accelerated natural product discovery in micro and nano scale. Main supervisor: Professor Steen Honoré Hansen, Department of Pharmaceutics and Analytical Chemistry, phone +45 3533 6256 (email: shh@farma.ku.dk). 
7. CHEMICAL BIOLOGY
   Synthesis and biological evaluation of polyamine toxins as tools for studies of ionotropic glutamate receptors. Main supervisor: Professor Kristian Strømgaard, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, phone +45 3533 6114 (email: krst@farma.ku.dk). 
8. CHEMICAL BIOLOGY
   Characterization of the binding sites and mechanism of the natural products ibogaine: A hallucigenic inhibitor of the serotonin transporter and the NMDA receptor. Main supervisor: Associate Professor Anders S. Kristensen, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, phone +45 3533 6505 (email: ask@farma.ku.dk). 

PhD position in computational biology at KHT, Sweden

Highlights:

1. KTH The School of Computer Science and Communication (CSC) seeks a PhD student in computational biology
2. KTH is the largest technical university in Sweden. Education and research cover a broad spectrum within natural sciences and engineering, as well as architecture, industrial engineering and management, urban planning, work science and environmental engineering. There are circa 13,300 full-year undergraduate students, 1,500 postgraduate students and 3,900 employees.
3. CSC is one of Sweden’s most advanced and successful research and education institutions in Information Technology at KTH and Stockholm University. The activities of the school focus on higher education and research within the traditional core areas of numerical analysis and computer science; from theory building and analysis of mathematical models to algorithm construction, implementation and simulation. Other core areas of growing importance are technology and methods for the support of human communication and computer mediated cooperation over distances in time and space. The applied research includes scientific computing, computer science, computer vision, robotics, neuroinformatics and neural networks, human-computer interaction, media technology and graphic arts, and communication through speech, language and music.

PhD in Polymer Technology, KTH Sweden

Highlights:

1. KTH is the largest technical university in Sweden. Education and research cover a broad spectrum within natural sciences and engineering, as well as architecture, industrial engineering and management, urban planning, work science and environmental engineering. There are circa 13,300 full-year undergraduate students, 1,500 postgraduate students and 3,900 employees.
2. The School of Chemical Science and Engineering includes the areas Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Fibre and Polymer technology. It encompasses both fundamental and applied chemical sciences and seeks sustainable development through scientific excellence.
3. Many research activities are interdisciplinary across the borders from chemistry to materials science, environmental science, biochemistry, biology and medicine. The School offers Bachelor and Master programs in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and three international Master programs specializing in Biomedical materials, Chemical science and engineering and Pharmaceutical engineering.