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SECAT-News-Oferta laboral-Predoctoral contract offer at Universidad de Zaragoza – Catalysis y Nanomedicina

Predoctoral contract offer at Universidad de Zaragoza – Catalysis y Nanomedicina

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 10 January/2025

Candidates are sought to participate in the call for grants for predoctoral contracts contemplated within the framework of the State Plan for Scientific, Technical and Innovation Research 2021-2023 in topics related to catalysis applied to Nanomedicine.

Specifically, the Research Group Nanostructured Films & Particles (NFP) of the University of Zaragoza offers a predoctoral contract associated with the project "Catalytic exosomes as therapeutic agents. Anti-tumor and antibacterial applications ”. [PID2023-148732NB-I00]

The scientific lines of the project in which the thesis would be framed are:

  1. Selective catalytic therapy: Both artificial and natural catalysts are emerging as new therapeutic tools, capable of modifying the conditions inside the target cells. The project will develop various types of catalysts with therapeutic activity.
  2. Extracellular vesicles as delivery vectors of therapeutic catalysts: This project will use extracellular vesicles (EVs) as highly selectivity vectors to deliver the therapeutic payload to the target cells. To this end, loading methods will be developed that preserve the recognition properties of vesicles. Alternatively, artificial vesicles will be developed, made up of cell membranes or EVs.
  3. Anti-tumor and antibacterial applications: The most suitable catalyst-charged EVs for the treatment of cancer and intestinal infections in animal models will be selected.

CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS:

Applicants may be all those who are enrolled or admitted to a doctoral programme for the 2024/2025 academic year, at the time of submission of the application. Applicants may also be all those who, at the time of submission of the application, not being enrolled or admitted to a doctoral programme, are in a position to be so on the date on which the contract is formalised. In any case, the formalisation of the contract will be conditional on the presentation of enrolment in a doctoral programme at the University of Zaragoza for the 2024/2025 academic year.

HOW TO APPLY:

The details of the call and applicable regulations can be consulted at this link: convocatoria PID2023

Las personas interesadas pueden contactar por correo electrónico con los profesores Jesús Santamaría (jesus.santamaria@unizar.es) and José Luis Hueso (jlhueso@unizar.es)