Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, S. Orsola Hospital, Bologna - Italy

Two open PhD positions (postgraduate scholarship) at the Department of and Specialistic Surgical Sciences and Anaestesiology:

Project - Research Methodologies in Vascular Surgery

We seek two motivated PhD candidates to be involved in a project which focuses on Human vascular wall mesenchymal stem cells and endothelial progenitors and diabetes.

We welcome any applicant with the following skills:

• background in laboratory techniques (cell culture, basic microscopic techniques including light and immunofluorescence, nucleic acid and protein isolation, western blot, PCR, functional molecular analysis through RNA interference)
• experience with software for editing biomedical images such as ImageJ
• basic knowledge in statistical analysis

Salary: about EUR 30.000 per year (Tax Included).

Application deadline: September 2008

Candidates should send their detailed curricula by email to: Gianandrea Pasquinelli (gianandr.pasquinelli[ at ]unibo.it) and Andrea Stella (andrea.stella2[ at ]unibo.it).