Apply now for PhD fellowship at university of Copenhagen for drug design and pharmacology department 2020

The University of Copenhagen is an internationally recognised multidisciplinary university, focusing on basic research and developing solutions to global challenges. UCPH offers cutting edge research in an international atmosphere. In 2013 Monocle Magazine heralded Copenhagen as ”the most liveable city in the world”.We are offering a three-year PhD fellowship within a project based upon positive allosteric modulation of kainate receptors (KARs). The overall aim of the PhD project is to find the first high affinity, high efficacy and preferably selective PAM acting on the KARs and to examine the role of KAR PAMs at hippocampal neurons.The PhD project is performed in collaboration with University of Liege, Belgium and University of Bordeaux, France.The PhD student will manage and carry out the research project, participate in the education and guidance of undergraduate and graduate students, and write scientific publications.

Opportunity focuses area:
Drug design
Pharmacology