Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (Spanish National Cancer Research Centre)

Training Programmes and Courses

Obra Social Fundación 'la Caixa'

"la caixa" / CNIO INTERNATIONAL PhD PROGRAMME

2009 Call

In 2008 "la Caixa" Foundation launched a scholarship programme to offer interdisciplinary training and research opportunities to outstanding young graduate students of any nationality to pursue a PhD project at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO).

Students who gain a place in this new programme obtain full financial support during the four years of the scholarship.

The following ten students have obtained one of the available fellowships in the 2009 call of the programme and will be joining the CNIO during September-October 2009.

Final list of successful candidates
Name University of origin Group at the CNIO (Programme)
Michele Cioffi University of Naples Federico II, Italy Stem Cells and Cancer (CR)
Aguirre de Cubas University of Zaragoza, Spain Hereditary Endocrine Cancer (HCG)
Ljiljana Dukanovic Bard College, NY, USA Epithelial Cell Biology (CCB)
Ana Garrote National University of Quilmes, Argentina Macromollecular Crystallography (SBB)
Marta Kamieniak University of Warsaw, Poland Human Genetics (HCG)
Juliane Menezes Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Human Cytogenetics (HCG)
Ilaria Mereu University of Cagliari, Italy Computational Biophysics (SBB)
Enrico Tenaglia University of Turin, Italy Genomic Instability (MO)
Marianna Trakala Autonoma University of Madrid, Spain Cell Division and Cancer (MO)
Krishna Seshu Tummala Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India Growth Factors, Nutrients and Cancer (CCB)
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