PhD Positions in Life Sciences, IRB Barcelona Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Spain (2016)

PhD grants are offered for the academic year 2016-2017 within the “la Caixa”-Severo Ochoa International PhD Programme (herein referred to as “la Caixa”- Severo Ochoa Grants). Furthermore, 6 fellowships will be offered, these funded by the MINECO (“Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad”), through the “Contratos predoctorales Severo-Ochoa para la Formación de doctores” 2016 call.

Desired skills and experience

The programme is aimed at international students who have completed one of the following options by September 2016:
- the studies that lead to an official Spanish (or from another country of the European Higher Education Area) university degree in Biology, Biochemistry, Pharmacy, Physics, Medicine, Chemistry or related areas and that have 300 credits (ECTS), of which at least 60 must correspond to master level.
- a degree in a non-Spanish university not adapted to the European Higher Education Area that gives access to doctoral studies in Biology, Biochemistry, Pharmacy, Physics, Medicine, Chemistry or related areas.

Candidates are selected exclusively on merit, on the basis of their curricula. Academic grades and the curriculum of applicants are evaluated as well as recommendation letters and a motivation letter. No selection criteria for positive or negative discrimination are applied.

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