Wednesday 29 May 2013

Germany: Marie Curie Initial Training Network TECAS: Tissue Engineering for Cardiovascular Surgery

Deadline: 30 June 2013

Overview
The TECAS Initial Training Network (TECAS-ITN) integrates the major
 European investigators and experts in the field of cardiovascular
 tissue engineering (TE) and regenerative medicine (RM), with a
view to establishing a European Doctoral Academy in Regenerative
Engineering. The aim of the Doctoral Academy is to facilitate the
cross-disciplinary and intersectorial training of Early Stage
Researchers (ESRs) in the field, by consolidating the extensive
multidisciplinary experience in training and research of its academic,
 clinical and industrial Partners. The TECAS-ITN focuses on the clinical
 needs of cardiac valve replacement/repair, myocardium reconstruction
 and patch graft angioplasty of the great blood vessels, with a
view to developing the underpinning expertise and technology
 for manufacturing cardiovascular TE implants for clinical use.
 The TECAS-ITN will host 13 Marie Currie ESR Fellows at
6 different Partner Institutions, each performing an individual
research project that is placed along the innovation
pipeline of a number of TE products/technologies from basic
 science to translational research.
Research Training
In addition to their research projects, the training
of the Doctoral Fellows will be complemented by project-specific Exchange
secondments to other TECAS-ITN Partners collaborating on a specific
Fellowship, Clinical secondments to the organ banks of the clinical
 Partners, Industrial secondment to the industrial Partners and Laboratory
 secondments to academic institution outside TECAS-ITN, as well as through
 an extensive curriculum of academic and transferable skills courses and
workshops, and public engagement activities. The Fellows will also be
 awarded specialist certificates, based on their individual training, which
 will be recognised and endorsed by all academic and industrial Partners.
Marie Currie Fellowship Opportunities and Application Form
There will be 2 rounds of recruitment for the 13 Doctoral Fellowships. The application deadline
 for the first cohort ofFellowships is 31 March 2013, whereas the application deadline 
for the second cohort of Fellowships is 30 June 2013. The Fellowships are described in 
the links below. Each applicant may select up to 3 Fellowship posts. Please indicate 
your selection in the application form below.

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