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Ph.D Positions in Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology

Dept/Faculty: School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Closing Date: Until position is filled

Three Ph.D. positions are available in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences as part of the Irish Drug Delivery Research Network (IDDRN) Cluster, funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI).

The IDDRN involves collaboration between University College Dublin (UCD), Trinity College Dublin (TCD), University College Cork (UCC) and the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland (RCSI) and is supported by Genzyme Ireland , Sigmoid Biotechnologies, and Warwick Effect Polymers (UK). The group will focus on improved methods of delivery of peptides and nucleic acids.

The projects to be carried out in TCD are:

Project 1 : Liposomal platforms for pulmonary peptide delivery Supervised by Dr. Carsten Ehrhardt ( ehrhardc@tcd.ie )
Project 2 : Development of parathyroid hormone (PTH) and salmon calcitonin (sCT) microparticles for pulmonary delivery Supervised by Dr. Anne Marie Healy ( healyam@tcd.ie )

Project 3 : Development and characterisation of nanoparticulate systems for oral and pulmonary peptide delivery Supervised by Dr. Lidia Tajber ( ltajber@tcd.ie )

Qualification Requirements
Applicants should have a degree (first class honours or second class honours, first division) in Pharmacy , Chemistry, Material Science or related discipline and should have an aptitude/strong interest in pharmaceutics research.

Application Details
Interested applicants should, in the first instance, send their CV to the relevant staff member (as listed above) at the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Trinity College , Dublin 2 or we welcome applications by e-mail.

TRINITY COLLEGE IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER

http://www.tcd.ie/vacancies/js_nonaca_research_pharmtechs_feb08.php
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PhD position available in RNA and Infection Biology

Doctoral program in RNA Biology
Max F. Perutz Laboratories,
University of Vienna, Austria

Description:
A PhD position is available to study the role of small RNAs in the regulation of virulence in Streptococcus pyogenes. S. pyogenes is a gram-positive bacterial pathogen responsible for life-threatening diseases in humans. The capacity of this pathogen to initiate its virulence program and consequently cause disease depends on complex regulatory processes that control the expression of virulence factors in response to changing environmental conditions. In the proposed project, we are interested in understanding how a novel class of molecules, regulatory small RNAs, interfere in these processes by fine-tuning gene expression.

Our lab is part of the Max F. Perutz Laboratories (http://www.mfpl.ac.at/). MFPL is located at the Vienna Biocenter Campus, which comprises several private and university research institutes in molecular life sciences (http://www.viennabiocenter.org/), thus offering a highly interactive and international research environment.

The PhD position is integrated in the doctoral program in RNA biology (http://www.projects.mfpl.ac.at/dk-rna-biology/), which is part of the Vienna Biocenter International PhD Program in Molecular Life Science (http://www.univie.ac.at/vbc/PhD/). The position is a full-time position for three years with a competitive salary funded by the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF). Highly qualified applicants from all over the world are invited to apply, provided that they are not older than 30 years. All applicants must hold or anticipate receiving a university degree equivalent to a European university diploma / degree within the second half of 2008. Prior hands-on experience in molecular biology is highly desirable.

Application details:
Candidates should send a CV, a brief outline of their research experience and interests, and two letters of reference to emmanuelle.charpentier@univie.ac.at. Since the application deadline for the doctoral program in RNA biology is May 18th, 2008, please send your pre-application to Emmanuelle Charpentier by May 10th, 2008.

Contact details:
Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier
Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna
Email: emmanuelle.charpentier@univie.ac.at

http://www.mfpl.ac.at/index.php?cid=654