PhD position available!

Understanding how brain cells interact to form circuits, how circuits give rise to networks, and how networks support cognition is one of the most exciting challenges in clinical neuroscience. For complex conditions such as multiple sclerosis and autism spectrum disorder, progress has been slowed by animal models that optimize for single causes or treatments, without reflecting the diversity and complexity seen in patients.

This Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) doctoral network PhD project takes a fundamentally new approach: embedding animal models in a translational framework that connects multiple scales of brain organization, from molecules and cells to whole-brain networks and cognition. The doctoral candidate (DC) will use insights from patients to guide experiments in healthy rats, with the goal of building a multiscale foundation of knowledge that is directly relevant for understanding complex human diseases.

This project is part of the TRANSCEND Doctoral Network (https://biomed.au.dk/TRANSCEND-network/), funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA). TRANSCEND (“Transcending limitations of translational research on Multiple Sclerosis and Autism Spectrum Disorder”) brings together 13 doctoral candidates across 11 international partner universities on the topic of translational research.

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