International PhD and Postdoctoral Program
Academic excellence in neuroscience
Training tomorrow’s scientific leaders
Paris Brain Institute is launching an international program of excellence aimed at training future scientific leaders in neuroscience. This program offers optimal educational, scientific, and material conditions to attract high-potential candidates, thereby promoting the emergence of new solutions for neurological diseases.
OUR CHALLENGE
More than 150 years after the first descriptions of neurological diseases, contemporary medicine still struggles to treat the majority of these conditions. Despite technological advances that have deepened our knowledge of the brain, we still have not acquired a complete understanding of how it functions and the pathologies that affect it. The major challenge is to train the next generation of researchers so that they can provide treatments to hundreds of millions of patients around the world.
Building the foundations for tomorrow’s neuroscience
This program aims to create an environment conducive to the development of talent. Paris Brain Institute wants to give the best candidates the opportunity to develop their skills and challenge existing paradigms in order to advance neuroscience research. This is about investing in future scientific leaders who will take up the immense challenge of enabling everyone to have total control of their own movements and thoughts at any age and throughout their lives.
Making Europe a driver for innovation
This program aims to make Europe a benchmark in the dissemination of neuroscience and a major player in the treatment of neurological diseases. The aim is to ensure that future scientific leaders have the tools and resources they need to innovate, guided by the principles of scientific excellence, multidisciplinarity, openness to the world, and boldness in what they do.
“Working in an environment conducive to cross-disciplinary dialogue, learning each week from the experience of visiting researchers from around the world, and interacting with the industrial world have been crucial assets in pursuing my scientific career.”
Elise Marsan
Former PhD student at Paris Brain Institute and postdoctoral fellow at UCSF – University of California, San Francisco
Target amount
€14.3 million
To create this international PhD and postdoctoral program dedicated to neuroscience
This funding breaks down as follows:
- €7.2 million to create four PhD programs in neuroscience over four years.
- €7.1 million to create four two-year postdoctoral fellowships, renewable for two years after scientific evaluation.
Paris Brain Institute offers a scientific environment that encourages the emergence of new ideas, thanks to the diversity of expertise it brings together. The program offers personalized support to doctoral and postdoctoral students, including mentoring, targeted training, assistance with writing articles and grant applications, team management, and weekly meetings with internationally renowned scientists.