Periodic Reporting for period 3 - TOPMed10 (Fellowship Programme supporting Career Development and Interdisciplinary Training in Omics driven Personalised Medicine)
Période du rapport: 2019-07-01 au 2021-06-30
The objective of TOPMed10 is to offer prestigious fellowships to the coming generation of researchers and clinicians, to prepare them for the challenges and opportunities of personalised medicine and to equip them with new skills, interdisciplinary and intersectoral experience, and a wider range of competencies to enhance their career. development prospects. This is in line with the main objective for the Individual Fellowships Action from the MSCA Work Programme 2014 – 2015, which is to “enhance the creative and innovative potential of Experienced Researchers who wish to diversify their individual competence in terms of skill acquisition through advanced training, international and intersectoral mobility.
In the second period of the programme, TOPMed10 focused on providing the necessary supports to fellows to implement their research projects and to facilitate their personal development plans. Supports are in place for training, career coaching and professional development, secondment, research dissemination and public engagement. To date, fellows have disseminated their research across 28 posters, 18 oral presentations and 3 publications. Further articles are pending publication. Fellows have participated in 29 training events in addition to 18 public engagement events. Two fellows have departed the programme to take up research positions in both the academic and industry sector.