International PhD Programme in Molecular Cell Biology @ Berlin, Germany:
2009 application round is now open. Please go to the application web-site.
Closing date is Monday, 19th of January, 2009.
The International PhD Programme "Molecular Cell Biology" was established in 2003, and is a joint activity of the Max-Delbrück Centre (MDC) for Molecular Medicine and the Humboldt University (HU) Berlin. Students from around the world are selected on a competitive basis to join the Programme. The Programme provides exceptional research opportunities and in-depth interdisciplinary training in Molecular Cell Biology, along with a strong emphasis on fundamental molecular biology and molecular cell biology as the foundations of modern medicine. It is aimed at university graduates (with Diploma or research Masters degree), who wish to obtain a doctoral degree in the fields of Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Molecular Genetics, Molecular Cardiovascular Research, Developmental Biology, Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Structural Biology and Molecular Neurobiology. There are more than 50 research groups you can select from and it is up to you to choose the ‘big’ question you wish to find an answer for during your PhD research. And since we have critical mass of the scientific expertise at the MDC, HU and the Berlin-Buch Campus, you would never be far away from a world expert, be it in cancer signalling pathways or genomics, systems biology or macromolecular structure, gene therapy or proteomics.
Language
The working language of the Programme is English.
Starting Date
Students should be able to start in autumn 2009.
Funding
Successful PhD candidates are offered a fully-funded doctoral position either at the MDC or the HU. The salary level paid for the graduate students employed as research assistants is in accordance with the standard tariff for the German public service sector. The Helmholtz Graduate School 'Molecular Cell Biology' also provides travel grants for its PhD students, encouraging them to attend international scientific meetings to present their findings, external courses and summer schools, or for collaborative visits.
Doctoral Degree
As a rule, our PhD students are enrolled at the Humboldt University of Berlin or the Free University of Berlin to obtain their degree - Doctor rerum naturalium (Dr. rer. nat.), translated as Doctor of Natural Sciences. This is a German equivalent of the PhD degree and is internationally recognised and accepted as such. Students can also opt to get their PhD Degree from a university in their home country (open publication of the doctoral thesis has to be authorised by the supervisor).
Wider PhD students community at the MDC
The MDC’s PhD student community is not limited to the International PhD Programme only, - there are about 250 of graduates working on their PhDs at any point in time (do check our students’ web-site). Every year they organise a PhD Retreat (please see the photo from the last one), where they present their results, meet distinguished invited speakers of their own choosing, exchange ideas and socialise. But you do not have to wait for a year to get out of the lab, - in their free time our graduates also organise regular outings, or, as it is called in German ‘Stammtisch’.
Further Info :http://www.mdc-berlin.de/en/phd_ausbildung/phd_program/Int_l_PhD_Programme__Molecular_Cell_Biology_/index.html
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