Postdoctoral Fellowships, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Spain (2016-2017)

The Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is looking for Postdoctoral candidates to apply for the 2016 call of the The Programme in Bioengineering Excellence Scientific Training (BEST) that aims to attract experienced international researchers in the areas of Nanomedicine, Cell Engineering and ICT for Health, the three research flagships at IBEC. The BEST Postdoctoral Programme is a postdoctoral fellowship sheme part funded by the European Comission under Horizon 2020’s Marie Curie Sklodowska-Curie Actions COFUND scheme and the Severo Ochoa programme of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Competitiveness.

The expertise encompassed by each flagship is as follows:

- Nanomedicine: nanobiosensing; microfluidics; nanofabrication using soft lithographies and related techniques; beyond-AFM/ST microscopy tools to characterize biological samples at the nanoscale; mechanobiology protocols and their translation to clinical purposes; nano-scale characterization of bacterial-host interactions; organ/lab-on-chip tehcnologies; nanorobotics; nanoscopy.

- Cell Engineering: biomaterials for regenerative medicine; reprogramming stem cells; control differentiation of stem cells; rapid prototyping for biomaterials; cell-material interaction; biomimetics; microencapsulation for antibacterials and other therapeutic agents.

- ICT for Health: application of advanced information and communication technologies to healthcare, such as modelling; signalling processing; automatics/control software for robotics; imaging; robotics for minimally invasive surgery.

BEST Postdoctoral Programme will provide exceptional training opportunities for up to 24 (in 2 calls of 12 positions per call) high-potential fellows, with a 2-year contract at IBEC and funded interdisciplinary and intersectoral placements at world-class research centres, hospitals and companies within IBECs global network of collaborating institutions.

Further details:
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