Two PhD student/Early Stage Researcher (ESR) positions are available in the group of associate professor Terhi Piltonen (https://www.oulu.fi/mrc/research-groups/piltonen) at the University of Oulu, Finland. The projects are focused on endometrial function, inflammation and infertility. The duration of the post is four years.
Successful candidates will be selected to work on a research project coordinated by the University of Oulu in a productive and dynamic research team of prof. Terhi Piltonen that is well established in the field of reproductive medicine. Medical Research Center Oulu (MRC Oulu) is a multidisciplinary research environment for clinical, translational and healthcare socioeconomic research. MRC Oulu, located at the Kontinkangas campus, has wide range of infrastructures to conduct high-quality research, including facilities of Faculty of Medicine, Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, the Biocenter core facilities, Northern Finland Birth Cohort, the Northern Finland Biobank Borealis and Oulu University Hospital.
The PhD students will be hired on projects funded through the EU project MATER, a Marie Curie Training Network (https://mater.ut.ee/homepage). PhD students will carry out their doctoral research and training jointly at two degree-awarding universities and will be awarded a double PhD degree from the University of Oulu (Finland) as the main host, and the University of Leuven (Belgium, ESR7) or the University of Tartu (Estonia, ESR8) as the co-host.
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2 PhD Student Positions in the field of endometrial research and female fertility