Marie Curie PhD Fellows – Microfluidic Diagnostics – i) sorting
human skeletal stem cells; ii) sorting bacteria and malariainfected cells
University of Southampton £39,603
Full Time Fixed Term (3 Years)
Two fully funded PhD studentships are available to work on label-free microfluidic
sorting schemes. Sorting is based on particle morphology, deformability and dielectric
properties and the project will combine experimental science with advance modelling
techniques. These projects are part of an EU network and will develop new schemes for
sorting bacteria, enriching parasites (malaria) and parasite-infected cells and techniques
to isolate rare cells such as human skeletal (mesenchymal) stem cells.
Chips will be designed and fabricated using state of the art clean rooms (£100M
Southampton Nanofabrication Centre), focusing on the potential for simple low-cost
mass produced systems. The goal is to develop advanced low cost diagnostic platforms
to tackle critical medical conditions and approaches for stem cell isolation for patient
benefit.
This LAPASO project is an EU Initial Training Network (ITN) funded by FP7 and for
further information on the project, please visit:
http://nanobio.ftf.lth.se/~lapaso/
The scheme is funded by the European Commission who have set specific eligibility
criteria for this vacancy. Please also note that full funding is available to cover EU/UK
tuition fees. Please note that funding is for EU students ONLY.
For further information surrounding Marie Curie schemes see:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/funded-projects/how-tomanage/itn/index_en.htm
Contact Prof Hywel Morgan at hm.ecs.soton.ac.uk
For Skeletal Stem Cell programme contact Prof Richard OC Oreffo roco@soton.ac.uk
Or via
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