Department : Chemistry
Vacancy ID : 021101
Closing Date : 23-Apr-2023
Maynooth University is committed to a strategy in which the primary University goals of excellent research and scholarship and outstanding education are interlinked and equally valued.
We are seeking an ESRs to work on STRIKE—HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01 project. STRIKE aims to develop a research and training network in nanomedicine/precision medicine, rising a new generation of entrepreneurial and innovative multidisciplinary young researchers. STRIKE will provide enhanced career perspectives in academic and non-academic sectors in highly innovative fields by interdisciplinary mobility among 12 institutes/companies in 8 EU countries. The selected candidate will receive a gross salary in accordance with the MSCA regulations for early-stage researchers (ESRs).
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie-Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 101072462.
The Research Project will be focused on the planning and the synthesis of platinum based anticancer drugs selective for osteosarcoma treatment with appropriate ligands for imaging. The Pt metal scaffold will be functionalised with Doxorubicin and/or appropriate ligands (i.e. DOTA, DFO) for radiolabelling with nuclides (68Ga, 89Zr, 64Cu). During the mobility periods, the ESR will learn the possible ways of interaction Pt-based drugs with magnetic nanoplatforms and will be trained in the functionalization of the Pt scaffold with different radio nuclei for imaging purpose. The ESR will attend different taught modules regarding core skills and research techniques in chemistry and aspects of technology commercialization with all the other ESRs involved in the STRIKE project. The project will be mainly carried out at National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUIM), under the supervision of Dr Diego Montagner and the candidate will be enrolled in MHE02 PhD programme (4 years) at NUIM under the supervision of Dr. Montagner (https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/faculty-science-engineering/our-people/diego-montagner ).
More detail regarding the project can be found here: https://strike.unime.it/
Salary
Marie Curie Doctoral Researcher: €43.687.69 per annum (€50,819.61 per annum if successful candidate has a family )
Closing Date: 23:30hrs (local Irish time) on Sunday, 23rd April 2023.
Please note all applications must be made via our Online Recruitment Portal at the following link: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/human-resources/vacancies
The application must prove the following information (in English) in one single PDF file:
Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified above. Any applications which are still in progress at the closing time on the specified closing date will be cancelled automatically by the system.
Late applications will not be accepted.
Maynooth University is an equal opportunities employer
The position is subject to the Statutes of the University
“This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research andInnovation Programme under the Marie-Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 101072462.”