Pasteur-Paris University (PPU) International Doctoral Program – launch of a new call for proposals

The next call for the recruitment of PPU students for October 2022 is open (June 17, 2021).

To have your project online in September 2021, please go to the link https://ppu.pasteur.fr/ppu_labo_accueil.aspx and follow the instructions.

Projects will be accepted from now through September 1, 2021. We will put all the projects on the PPU website according to the rule “first come, first served": the sooner we receive the form, the closer to the top of the website list it will appear.

The call for candidates will be open from September 18 until November 2, 2021.

The final application, prepared jointly by the chosen applicant and the host lab, with a more detailed project description, will be due by November 15, 2021.

Teams that have already chosen a candidate must still send a project indicating their desire to recruit a student into the program. Later they will receive further instructions to avoid receiving additional applications.

This doctoral program is for students who have obtained or will obtain a master’s degree or equivalent in a foreign (not French) university. The eligibility criteria do not exclude a student internship period in France (less than 1 year!), including at the Institut Pasteur.

The call is also opened via the "INCEPTION program" in the following fields: Phylodynamics; Sequence analysis; Metagenomics; Systems biology; Deep learning; Databases; Precision medicine. Please indicate if your project is in an INCEPTION area of interest in the appropriate box on the platform ("sponsor"). The candidates for INCEPTION will be selected according to the same rules as the PPU candidates, with special focus on candidates with an interdisciplinary background in the INCEPTION fields of interest, and on emerging diseases. Co-supervision will be required. The name of the co-supervisor has to be communicated before the interview week (beginning of February 2022).

The supervisors who participate in the actual PPU call submitting a project in the area of antimicrobial resistance and who are willing to collaborate with the Oxford Chemistry Department should select the option "PPU-Oxford program" in the "sponsor" box on the dedicated PPU platform. PPU-Oxford students will have the possibility to spend up to three months of their PhD in the Chemistry Department of Oxford University. Besides that, they will follow all the activities proposed by the PPU program.

The host lab must be affiliated with a Doctoral School of the Université de Paris, Sorbonne Université, or Université Paris Sud (Paris 11). Any scientist with an HDR (and the approval of the Unit director) may propose a project for a PPU student. A scientist who is in the process of obtaining his or her HDR may be a co-advisor. The PPU program follows the rules of the universities concerning the number of students per HDR.

Units with "installation packages" (except G5s) will have to fund the student’s salary over the 3-year period with their packages.

Scientists who have successfully recruited a student for the PPU or PPU-CNBG program in the previous two calls cannot submit an application this year.

Also this year, we propose a call for the PPU-CNBG program. CNBG (the biggest pharmaceutical company in China) will select candidates for us. The selection procedure will then be completed by us with videoconferences and 2 students will be accepted. Even though the PPU-CNBG call starts in February 2022 (after the PPU call), researchers who submit projects for the PPU will be asked in September 2021 if they want to participate in the PPU-CNBG call as well.
 
Should you require more information, please contact: phd@pasteur.fr.

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