Call open: 15th January 2025, 09.00hrs (GMT)
Submission Deadline: 11th April 2025, 17.00hrs (GMT)
About the Programme
Neuroadapt is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND Action for Postdoctoral Fellowships led by Futureneuro, the Research Ireland Centre for Translational Brain Science. This world-leading multi-disciplinary centre, which is interlinked with the national neurological clinical network, uniquely focuses on making discoveries and developing technologies that can solve the urgent, unmet needs of people living with neurological, psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders. The overall objective of Neuroadapt is to equip the next generation of researcher leaders with the skills (scientific & transferrable) necessary to 1) catalyse their careers, both in academia and beyond, and 2) develop much needed innovative, safer, and more effective diagnostic, therapeutic and health-care approaches to brain diseases tailored specifically towards individual patient needs.
Neuroadapt applicants will choose, based on their individual preferences & needs, from a wide range of research areas, host organisations, supervisors and Secondment organisations. Novel proposals can be submitted around three broad, interdisciplinary themes:
Therapeutics: Research into the causes of brain disease, focusing on noncoding RNAs, metabolic and epigenetic processes, the blood brain barrier and neuroinflammation using technologies including super-resolution imaging, single cell ‘omics and neurophysiology.
Diagnostics: Identification and validation of novel disease markers, including genetic risk factors and both wet and dry biomarkers, novel point-of-care diagnostics and leveraging AI to large dataset to enhance the accuracy of diagnosis with an ultimate aim to create a stratified, research-engaged patient population to enable faster diagnosis, precision medicine and clinical trials.
Digital Health: The development of personalised, accessible, proactive, and preventive healthcare solutions, enabled by digital technologies, and specifically tailored for those impacted by neurological and neuropsychiatric diseases.
Call 1 (2025) Open ~Jan 15th, 2025
In 2025, Neuroadapt aims to fund at least 6 high-calibre Postdoctoral Fellowships of 24 months. Depending on their supervisor, in-coming fellows will be hosted in one the eight FutureNeuro-affiliated universities in Ireland. Through the wider FutureNeuro network, they will also have access to the much broader research and clinical infrastructure. Global options are also available.
Funding Details
For detailed information on the opportunity, eligibility and the application process please see the call documentation on
https://futureneurocentre.ie/neuroadapt/The award will provide for salary (indicative range € 57K – 65K Gross amount) allowances depending on host and applicant status. Mobility allowance, research costs, training and career development programme will be additional to salary
Eligibility
Neuroadapt Fellowships are for Postdoctoral researchers from any country, seeking a prestigious, career-building base in Ireland. For full eligibility criteria please read the call documentation on our website.
Applicants should:
- Hold a PhD on 15th January 2025, or have defended their PhD and received unconditional approval
- Have spent less than 12 months of the previous 36 in Ireland (relaxed / alternative mobility rules apply under certain conditions, and for global fellowships)
How to Apply
Via an open call for research proposals on Neuroadapt themes, accessed through our website. Selection will take place through independent peer review followed by interview.
Full submission guidelines, terms and instructions can be found on our website.
Applications encouraged from Scholars / Researchers at Risk; please contact us for additional support.
Links
Web:
https://futureneurocentre.ie/neuroadapt/Twitter: @Neuroadapt_RCSI
email:
[email protected]LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/neuroadapt-fellowshipFunding reference: HORIZON-MSCA-2023-COFUND- 101179447
