Description du projet
Former des scientifiques au traitement de l’osthéoarthrite
Il n’existe aucun remède contre l’osthéoarthrite, une maladie articulaire dégénérative grave et douloureuse. Autrefois appelée «usure» et associée au vieillissement, l’ostéoarthrite touche généralement les mains, les genoux, les hanches, le bas du dos et le cou. Le projet OSTASKILLS, financé par l’UE, explorera le développement d’options thérapeutiques de prise en charge des symptômes. Il invitera dix chercheurs talentueux à postuler à une formation doctorale aux méthodes scientifiques dans le domaine de la médecine régénérative. L’objectif global du projet est d’encourager la prochaine génération de scientifiques entreprenants capables de combiner et de traduire des innovations majeures dans les sciences de la vie en applications cliniques significatives et sur le marché des soins de santé.
Objectif
Osteoarthritis (OA) is the single most common cause of disability in older adults and is expected to continue to grow in the decades to come. Despite the major socio-economic impact, OA patients are facing a staggering lack of disease-modifying therapies, leaving invasive total joint replacement as the only currently available option to treat end-stage OA. OSTASKILLS is based on a research programme aimed at the clinical development and market introduction of medical devices, pharmaceutical products and advanced therapy medicinal products for joint repair. OSTASKILLS aims at attracting ten talented doctoral candidates worldwide. It will issue two calls, inviting early stage researchers to apply for a doctoral training. The selection process OSTASKILLS has adopted is based on openness, transparency, merit, impartiality and equality for the applicants. The doctoral candidates will receive training through research and training by education. The main training objectives are: a variety of scientific methods within the field of regenerative medicine, as well as other transferable skills to improve the career perspectives of the doctoral candidates. OSTASKILLS aims to train the next generation of entrepreneurial scientists who are capable of combining and translating major innovations in life sciences towards meaningful clinical applications and the health care market. The field of joint preservation will act as a unique blueprint for the training of entrepreneurial scientists that can find their way towards other clinical application areas following their training in this programme. Every doctoral candidate will work in both an academic, as well as an non-academic partner organisation, to expose the young researchers to diverse research environments and equip them with the skills needed to bring innovations to actual implementation in practice.
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MSCA-COFUND - Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND)Coordinateur
1056 AA AMSTERDAM
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