Announcement - Postdoctoral one-year grants

The Swegene management has decided on additional funding to support postdoc scientists. The managers of the Swegene resource centres and development programmes are given the opportunity to apply for grants covering one year’s salary for a postdoc working at the centre to develop techniques or methods.

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Swegene has 22 postdocs within the field of functional genomics. You can read up on their research below. They are employed as junior scientists at their "home" departments within the Faculties of Science and Medicine at Lund University, the Lund Institute of Technology, the Faculties of Science and Medicine at Göteborg University, or the Chalmers University of Technology. They spend at least nine months of the first year in a laboratory outside their own department.

The Swegene Board has allocated 40 million kronor for postdoc training of young scientists who have just obtained their doctor's degrees. Within the present programme, no more applications will be accepted.

The purpose of the grants is for young scientists to achieve technical skills and knowledge relevant to the Swegene research area - the so-called "Swegene added value" - and to establish connections between problem and technology oriented research groups. For the biological postdocs, the laboratory must be able to provide the scientist with the desired technological competence. It could be a Swegene resource centre or another laboratory, in Sweden or abroad, with similar training facilities. For the technological postdocs, the research should focus on a defined biological problem in a joint venture with a group carrying out such research where the scientist should apply his/her technological competence. This could be done in the laboratory of such a group, or in some other suitable environment. The grants are considered to be vital investments in human capital and the build-up of competence in the Swegene community. This is a prerequisite for funding.
 

For further information please contact Margit Anderberg, tel. +46-46-222 89 89, margit.anderberg@swegene.lu.se or Ulrika Ringdahl, tel +46-46-222 86 59, ulrika.ringdahl@swegene.lu.se.