Five (5) PhD Positions in Life or Medical Sciences, LabEx ICST, France (2015)

The ICST PhD program is currently accepting applications for 3-year PhD positions that will start in the Fall of 2015.

In the framework of its “Investments for the Future” program, the French government organized calls for “Laboratories of Excellence” (LabEx) to form a few clusters of excellence all over France in all fields of research. ICST has been selected in 2012 and has been granted an 8M€ funding over 8 years The LabEx ICST is a national consortium of 16 research teams from 7 laboratories: LP2M (Laboratory of Molecular Physio-Medicine, Nice), IBV (Biology Institute of Valrose, Nice), IPMC (Institute of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, Sophia Antipolis), IGF (Institute of Functional Genomics, Montpellier), IBS (Institute of Structural Biology, Grenoble), GIN (Grenoble Institute of Neurosciences), and PhyCell (Laboratory of Cell Physiology, Lille).

ICST is currently seeking applications from outstanding students in the Life or Medical Sciences for highly competitive, fully funded PhD positions in the area of ion channel science and therapeutics. The monthly salary will be 1760 € and provides social benefits

5 positions are open. Please see below for the research themes. More information on the hosting laboratories is available by clicking on the themes.

P01 Ion channels in pain associated with obesity Sophia Antipolis
P02 Ion channels in kidney physiology Nice
P03 Ion channels in polycystic kidney disease Sophia Antipolis
P04 Ion channels in stroke and depression Sophia Antipolis
P05 Ion channels in neuroendocrine cell excitability Montpellier

Further details:
http://academicpositions.eu