The international PhD program of the French national research project ‘ParaFrap’ is currently open for applications for 17 Ph.D. positions to be started in September 2021. Presentation The LabEx (Laboratory of Excellence) ParaFrap is a Health Sciences collaborative research program focusing on Molecular and Cellular Parasitology in its wider sense. The network gathers 26 French leading groups in the field and is funded by the Excellence Initiative of the French Ministry of Research. Four major research fields are investigated in protozoan models such as Plasmodium, Toxoplasma, Leishmania, Trypanosoma and Cryptosporidium: Post-genomic data exploration Mechanisms of pathogenesis and protective immunity Parasite molecular and cellular biology Towards new intervention strategies against parasitic pathogens The ParaFrap International Ph.D. program is an ambitious program offering competitive Ph.D. grants to high-quality students/early stage scientists. Applications are open to non-French students. The early stage scientists will be joining research projects selected by an external scientific board and managed by a main supervisor and a co-supervisor from two distinct research groups of the LabEx. These core research projects will focus on the use of state-of-theart post-genomic tools to enhance knowledge of the parasites’ biology and of their interactions with their hosts. We are committed to providing ParaFrap Ph.D. students with the best starting platform for a successful career in science. Additional information about ParaFrap can be found on http://www.labex-parafrap.fr/en/.
Information about the Ph. D. research projects, selection process, as well as the application procedure, is available at https://parafrap.application.systems . All applications MUST be made online on this website. Successful applicants will be enrolled in one of the 17 research groups who were awarded a Ph.D. fellowship, distributed among diverse French Universities (see website). Each applicant will have to indicate 4 projects of interest. If selected, he/she should be enrolled in one of the four projects indicated, unless the selection committee sees a particular interest in modifying one of his/her options. The deadline for submitting an application is on the 10th April 2021.