iNOVA4Health is offering 12 PhD positions on Translational Medicine, funded by FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia. Applications and supporting documents must be submitted by email to ana.cunha@nms.unl.pt with the reference # PD4462/2020/01 in the subject line.

The grants' work plan and scientific supervision are framed within the thematic lines of the iNOVA4Health unit. Below is a description of the three  thematic lines and associated researchers. All work plans include a human research component or demonstrate a clear translational medicine component of the project:

• TL1 – Neuro-Vision disorders – Theme: Ageing micro-environments: translational platforms for drug discovery

Supervisores: Paulo Pereira, Gabriela Silva, Sandra Tenreiro, Catarina Brito, Cláudia Almeida, Rosalina Fonseca, Hugo Miranda, Miguel Viana Baptista, Rita Teodoro, Rafaella Gozzelino, Cláudia Nunes Santos, José Alves, Helena Vieira, Abel Oliva, Ana Coroadinha;

• TL2 – Cardio-Nephro-Metabolic and musculoskeletal disorders - Theme: Mechanisms of disease and phenotyping of human cohorts.

Supervisores: José Belo, Otília Vieira, Paula Macedo, João Raposo, Silvia Conde, Sofia Pereira, Judit Morello, Helena Pité, Paulo Vera-Cruz, Susana Lopes, Monica Roxo-Rosa, Helena Soares, Fernando Pimentel, Anibal Ferreira, Fernando Nolasco, Teresa Adragão, Manuel Almeida, Margarida Serra, Patrícia Gomes-Alves, João Vicente

• TL3 – Cancer - Themes: Pathways to aggressiveness: from membrane trafficking regulation & cytoskeleton dynamics subversion to microenvironment-driven resistance and Familial Cancer Risk: uncovering new susceptibility genes & carcinogenic pathways

Supervisores: Branca Cavaco, Marta Pojo, Jacinta Serpa, Teresa Serra, Bruno Alexandre, Inês Isidro, Ana Paula Batista, Tiago Bandeiras, Júlia Costa, Rosário Bronze, Jacinta Serpa, Rune Mathiesen, Vasco Barreto, Alisson Gontijo, Duarte Barral, Antonio Jacinto, Ana Félix, Catarina Brito, João Vicente 

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