2019-2020 postdoctoral application
2019-2020 SISLEY-D’ORNANO & JEROME LEJEUNE FOUNDATIONS POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP
The Sisley-d’Ornano and Jerome Lejeune Foundations will be jointly funding a postdoctoral position for academic research. The research should be dedicated to bettering our understanding of “cross pathologies”, i.e. pathologies occurring both in Down syndrome and in the general population such as (but not exclusively limited to) Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, autism, oncology and hematology…
This process conforms with the European Charter for Researchers to be found at European Charter
The Sisley-d’Ornano and Jerome Lejeune Foundations are offering one postdoctoral fellowship to an outstanding researcher. The work must begin in 2020.
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Candidates should be presented and hosted by Institutions/Research Units.
The candidate will be selected during the second quarter of 2020.
Deadline for submission is midnight on 10 February 2020.
Postdoctoral Fellowships 2017-2019
2017
Title of the research project
Tau therapeutics in Down syndrome & Alzheimer’s disease synaptic pathologies
Postdoctoral researcher
Dr. Ioannis SOTIROPOULOS*
University - Country
University of Minho,
Braga, Portugal
2018
Title of the research project
Role of DYRK1A in GABAergic inhibitory neurons development, impact on the excitatory/inhibitory balance in diseases with intellectual disabilities
Postdoctoral researcher
Dr. Maria-Victoria
HINCKELMANN RIVAS*
University - Country
The Insitute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC)
Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France
-
Title of the research project
Discovery of novel biomarkers signaling NGF metabolic dysfunction and early AD-dementia in Down syndrome
Postdoctoral researcher
Dr. Florencia IULITA
University - Country
The Fundació Institut de Recerca de l’Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
Barcelona, Spain
2019
Title of the research project
Uncovering the signaling pathways to neurodegeneration of the locus coeruleus, and cognitive impairments in Down syndrome
Postdoctoral researcher
Dr. Marta FRUCTUOSO CASTELLAR*
University - Country
The Brain and Spine Institute (ICM)
Paris, France
-
Title of the research project
Usp16 as a new therapeutic target in Alzheimer disease and Down Syndrome?
Postdoctoral researcher
Dr. Elsa PITTARAS
University - Country
The Stanford University
Stanford, USA
* Postdoctoral fellowship co-sponsored by the Sisley-d’Ornano Foundation & the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation