Research students in medical sciences, biomedicine

Örebro University is looking for a PhD fellow for an on-going research project on Faecal Microbial Transplantation (FMT). The project is run at the Nutriotion-Gut-Brain Interactions Research Centre, and expected tasks are to work with bacteria and intestinal microbial ecosystems according to established microbiological, molecular biological and clinical gastroenterological methods.

The Faecal Microbial Transplantation project is part of a strategically supported research field at Örebro University. The main focus of the Nutrition-Gut-Brain Interactions Research Centre is to gain knew knowledge of the different interactions generated along the nutrition-microbe-gut-brain axis. As a PhD fellow in this project you are expected to work with bacteria and intestinal microbial ecosystems according to established microbiological, molecular biological and clinical gastroenterological methods. You will also work closely with other researchers in the research group as well as patients and healthy volunteers. Candidates are invited to submit their applications for research studies in medical sciences at School of health and medical sciences, Örebro University, Sweden. The starting date for the programme is on summer/autumn 2014.


Information on the Internet
Information on admission regulations, the application form, the general syllabus for the subject, a student handbook, and other information can be found at Örebro University’s homepage: http://www.oru.se/English/Education/Research-education/Guidelines-and-Forms/.

The programme
The opening is for research studies concluding with a doctoral degree. The programme comprises 240 credits, which corresponds to four years of full-time study.
Information on the programme can be found in the general syllabus for biomedical studies as well as in the handbook for research studies at Örebro University, Regelhandboken.

Doctoral studentship The place on the programme is linked to a full-time doctoral studentship. The appointment may include teaching, research or administration corresponding to a maximum of 20 per cent of a full-time. If that is the case, the working hours spent on such duties are added to the four-year period of study.

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