Spain: PhD Fellowships at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO)

PhD Fellowships at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Spain
In 2008 “la Caixa” Foundation launched a scholarship programme to offer interdisciplinary training and research opportunities to outstanding young graduate students of any nationality to pursue a PhD project at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO).

The “la Caixa”/CNIO international PhD programme offers cross-disciplinary training in state-of-the-art basic and applied cancer research within an international scientific environment. Ten fully funded four year fellowships will be available in 2010. Candidates should have an excellent academic track record, a solid knowledge of English and previous research experience.
Applications must be received by March 15th, 2010.
For further information on this programme and on the different research programmes and groups at the CNIO, please follow the links below:

• Call (full text; 107 KB)
• List of participating groups (55 KB)
• Poster (166 KB)
• Advertisement (New Scientist, September 26, 2009 issue) (521 KB)
• 2008 Scientific Report
• Application form

Outside this special programme, specific PhD training opportunities will be posted in the “Jobs” section of our web page together with directions on how to apply.
For further information, please contact our Training Manager, Mar Pérez at phd[ at ]cnio.es
Via: official announcement