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

2011 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 2011 call of the programme and will be joining the CNIO during September-October 2011.

Final list of successful candidates
Name University of origin Group at the CNIO (Programme)
Marta Brandt University of Gdansk, Poland Growth Factors, Nutrients and Cancer (CCB)
Marta Camacho Artacho University of Alcala, Alcala de Henares, Spain Computational Biophysics (SBB)
Magdolna Djurec Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Experimental Oncology (MO)
Simone Ecker University of Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology Hall/Tyrol, Austria Structural Computational Biology (SBB)
Darío Hermida Aponte University of Freiburg, Germany Macromolecular Crystallography (SBB)
Panagiotis Karras University of Ioannina, Greece Melanoma (MP)
Francesc Madriles Soriano Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain Epithelial Carcinogenesis (MP)
Veronika Mancikova Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Hereditary Endocrine Cancer (HCG)
Silvia Pineda Sanjuán University of Zaragoza, Spain Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology (HCG)
Ivana Zagorac University of Belgrade, Serbia Breast Cancer (CR)
For further information, please contact our Training Manager, Juan Ramón Molina at