RESCUE · Local Training Network on REgenerative medicine and Stem Cell technology in UtrEcht
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2018-06-01 → 2023-11-30
- EU contribution
- €3,034,560
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MSCA-COFUND
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Results in brief
Local Training Network on REgenerative medicine and Stem Cell technology in UtrEcht
With an aging population and rising healthcare costs, the need for organs, tissues and personalized strategies in medicine has never been greater. Recent developments in medical technologies such as 3D-bioprinting, stem cell therapy and gene editing hold the promise to provide tissues for transplantation, tailor-made medical solutions and opportunities to help the body repair and regenerate itself. However, our understanding of the fundamentals of cell, tissue and organ regeneration and their potential application for therapeutic purposes are still in its infancy. For Regenerative Medicine to fully capture its potential, a synergistic and multidisciplinary effort remains necessary to achieve essential scientific breakthroughs. Together the University Medical Center Utrecht (coordinator), the University Utrecht and the Hubrecht Institute appointed 29 international PhD positions on REgenerative Medicine & Stem Cells in UtrEcht. All positions, fully funded for four years, are located within the Regenerative Medicine Centre Utrecht, the Netherlands, within the EC H2020 Marie S. Curie COFUND doctorate project RESCUE. This unique international doctorate programme aims to enhance the potential and future career perspectives of these excellent early stage researchers by providing a global training network including over 50 excellent academic and industrial partner organizations. This training creates a new generation of research experts, empowering the fellows to drive regenerative medicine research towards valuable new applications in medicine and take leading positions in the field of Regenerative Medicine world-wide.
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Project objective
With an aging population, a growing burden of chronic conditions, and rising healthcare costs in Europe, the need for organs, tissues, and personalized strategies for decision making in therapeutic choices has never been greater. Recent developments herald the promise of regenerative medicine and stem cell (RMSC) technology. However, for RMSC to fully capture its potential, a synergistic and multidisciplinary effort remains necessary to achieve essential scientific breakthroughs.There is thus a high demand for an excellent graduate program that trains a new brand of researcher who will successfully bring RMSC technology from bench to bedside and back. Such a researcher understands the needs and demands that exist in the clinic, the strengths and limitations of RMSC technology and its ethical and regulatory aspects, and has the entrepreneurial spirit to push their discoveries towards new applications. Therefore, the University Medical Centre Utrecht (UMCU) has initiated the RMSC-dedicated doctoral training programme RESCUE. RESCUE features an international, interdisciplinary and inter sectoral approach to train 29 highly skilled Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) to become the future leaders in RMSC research and implementation of RMSC technology. RESCUE brings together 31 principal investigators that are renowned experts in their fields, have ample experience with supervising PhD students and leading successful research groups. RESCUE is tightly connected with multiple international academic and private partner organisations, each providing complementary research or training. RESCUE enables UMCU to develop best practices in high quality training and research. The long-term ambition of RESCUE is to establish a strong and coherent network that connects highly skilled young researchers as well as established scientists, who will continue to inspire each other to excel in making discoveries in RMSC far beyond the funding period.
Original text from CORDIS.
Participants
- UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM UTRECHT · UtrechtCoordinatorNetherlands
Links
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- DOI: 10.3030/801540
- https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/documents/downloadPublic?documentIds=080166e5bbdd787f&appId=PPGMS
- https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/documents/downloadPublic?documentIds=080166e5c1ed5681&appId=PPGMS
Data: CORDIS, © European Union