PhD Opportunities in Nutrition in Switzerland

A PhD position is available in Pascal Bertsch’s group at the University of Fribourg, Department of Chemistry , Switzerland. The doctoral researcher will join the European Research Council (ERC) project GI-CORONA , which focuses on lipid interfaces, digestion and drug delivery. The opportunity is relevant to candidates interested in chemistry, lipid science, gastrointestinal research, nutrition, pharmacy and drug-delivery applications. The post does not specify eligibility requirements, funding a...

PhD position in Precision Psychiatry and Depression Research in Bern, Switzerland. The Universitäre Psychiatrische Dienste Bern is offering a doctoral position within PRECISE-MDD, a CHF 1.99 million research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The mult centre study investigates how EEG- and EKG-based biomarkers can support the selection of optimal treatments for patients with unipolar depression, including antidepressants, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS),...

The University of Fribourg in Switzerland is offering a full-time, ERC-funded PhD position in the Department of Chemistry within Pascal Bertsch’s group and the ERC Starting Grant project GI-CORONA. The doctoral researcher will formulate lipid-based colloids, including emulsions, liposomes and lipid nanoparticles, and investigate how these systems digest in the gut and which proteins form their gastrointestinal “biocorona.” The project aims to use this knowledge to design improved oral drug-deliv...

Exciting PhD opening in lipid metabolism , nutrition , and MASLD (metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease) at Inselspital, Universitätsspital Bern in Switzerland. The project investigates the complex interplay between lipid metabolism, nutrition, and metabolic liver disease by integrating research in patients and experimental mouse models . The work is strongly translational and aims to unravel disease mechanisms and answer fundamental scientific questions in metabolic liver dis...

PhD opportunity at the University of Basel, Switzerland in rationally engineered hydrogels for controlling osteogenesis via mechanoregulation . This interdisciplinary project, hosted by the Swiss Nanoscience Institute , combines biomedical engineering , materials science , biology , chemistry , and computational modelling . The research aims to design multifunctional culture matrices with tunable viscoelastic properties, study how hydrogel mechanics influence human dental pulp stem cell differen...