The ”la Caixa” Foundation initiated in 2008 a fellowship programme to offer outstanding students from all over the world the chance of taking a PhD in Biomedicine at the CRG (Centre for Genomic Regulation).

The ”la Caixa” Foundation is a non-profitmaking organisation, which receives its funding from the third biggest financial entity in Spain, the Caja de Ahorros y Pensiones de Barcelona, ”la Caixa”. In terms of budget and business volume, the ”la Caixa” Foundation is among the ten most important Foundations in the world.

Since 1982, the ”la Caixa” Foundation has run various fellowship programmes to enable Spanish students to study postgraduate courses in Spain and other countries. In these twenty-five years, thousands of students have been able to develop their studies thanks to a fellowship from the Foundation.

This programme, which began in 2008 addressed to Spanish and international students, offers 10 four-year fellowships to do a PhD in Biomedicine the CRG and will be awarded every year during 4 years.

Under the programme, each holder of a fellowship will receive over these four years a total of 121,000 euros gross, paid entirely by the ”la Caixa” Foundation. This generous sum makes this fellowship programme one of the most highly competitive that exists in the biomedical research field.

The fellowships, therefore, are aimed at highly motivated students, who are committed to scientific excellence and have an outstanding potential. The candidates chosen become part of research groups consisting of world-class scientists and work at the frontiers of biomedical research.

The ”la Caixa” Foundation chose the CRG to initiate this programme because of the excellence of its research projects, the international nature of its scientific teams, the quality of its technological equipment, the inter-disciplinary nature of its projects and the abundance of its articles published in top-ranking scientific journals and media.

International PhD Programme Fellowships "la Caixa" / Centre de Regulació Genòmica Ten PhD positions will be available at the Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG) of Barcelona (Spain) for the academic year 2010-2011 thanks to the generous support of “la Caixa”, the third largest Spanish financial institution.

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