Fully Funded PhD and MD-PhD positions

The IOB PhD and MD-PhD Program on Translational Visual Neurosciences offers a unique opportunity to make breakthrough discoveries in the function or dysfunction of the eye and the visual brain, as well as to develop radically new therapies for eye diseases. These therapies are urgently needed, since the prevalence of visual diseases is rising globally, and effective therapies are lacking for most of them.
As part of this program, IOB offers PhD and MD-PhD fellowships to outstanding candidates from diverse fields such as Biology, Medicine, Physics, Computer Sciences and Engineering who wish to pursue their research in any of our research groups (Science and Clinic centre).
In addition to participating in world-leading vision research, IOB also offers an exciting program of lectures on vision, eye diseases and therapy, practical training in state of the art physiologi-cal, molecular and translational technologies, practical training in scientific writing and in scien-tific presentations as well as opportunities to participate in international summer courses and conferences.
PhD and MD-PhD candidates will be enrolled at the University of Basel.

Your profile

• You are an outstanding student and aspiring to advance your research within IOB re-lated research topics.
• You hold (or anticipate having) a master's degree, MD or equivalent relevant area of Biology, Medicine, Physics, Computer Sciences and Engineering.
• You have a strong command of the English language.

We offer you

• Fellowships that cover a full salary at Swiss standards for the duration of the studies.
• Access to state-of-the-art laboratory facilities.
• International and interdisciplinary research environment.