PhD position (100%, Start from October 2024)

at  Universitt Basel

The Department of Biomedicine is a joint effort between the University of Basel and the University Hospitals Basel. It unites basic and clinical scientists to advance our understanding of health and disease and to develop pioneering therapies benefiting the lives of patients in areas of unmet need.
With more than 70 research groups and 900 employees, the Department of Biomedicine is the largest department at the University. We are located in the heart of Basel at 6 different locations. Be part of your future.
A PhD position is available in the laboratory of Professor Momo Bentires-Alj (Lab Website: https://bentireslab.org/) at the Department of Biomedicine (DBM) in Basel, Switzerland. The successful candidate will be investigating the therapeutic potential of inhibiting key signaling proteins using triple negative breast cancer Patient-Derived-Organoid models (PDO). The successful candidate will be part of the “Personalized Medicine” subgroup of the lab and will contribute to model’s establishment and characterization, drug screening and analysis using our established pipeline, and to multi-OMICs profiling and computational analysis. Finally, the candidate will investigate the underlying molecular mechanisms and validate potential biomarker(s).

Please refer the Job description for details