DISCOVER · DISCOVERing treatment from biomedical research
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2022-07-01 → 2027-06-30
- EU contribution
- €1,952,640
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MSCA-COFUND
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Results in brief
DISCOVERing treatment from biomedical research
The International Doctoral Programme Discovering treatment from biomedical research (DISCOVER), based at Biotech Research and Innovation Centre, University of Copenhagen, has recruited and is currently training 23 early-stage researchers from 14 nationalities. The programme provides researchers not only with excellent scientific training in basic biomedical research, primarily within cancer and neurological diseases, but also enhanced training in transferable skills. Peer mentoring, career mentoring, and career development activities are also key elements of the programme. To innovatively address the increasing complexity of societal challenges, there is a growing need for researchers to enter interdisciplinary collaborations and to communicate and exploit their research. The past decades have presented great breakthroughs in the fundamental knowledge required for understanding and diagnosing many diseases. However, the ability to move basic discoveries towards new treatments is lagging the pace of discovery. With DISCOVER, our OVERALL OBJECTIVE is to empower diverse research talent to become creative and responsible researchers, with an ability to translate their biomedical research into clinical value. DISCOVER’s ambition is to inspire and enable fellows to a research career bridging basic and clinical research. Overall, DISCOVER provides a structural and intellectual framework for the fellows to develop strong research skills, diligence, ambition and creativity. All fellows work on projects within biomedicine, providing new knowledge of important biological processes and disease mechanisms, that potentially can lead to improved diagnosis, prognosis and treatment modalities for patients.
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Project objective
DISCOVERing treatment from biomedical research (DISCOVER) is a doctoral programme, to be led by the Biotech Research and Innovation Centre (BRIC) at the University of Copenhagen. BRIC is a Centre of Excellence, with a primary goal of performing cutting-edge basic biomedical research in an open and diverse environment fostering interdisciplinarity and collaboration. Further, BRIC aims to offer outstanding research training of young scientists and translate research findings into societal value. In DISCOVER, we will recruit 24 outstanding international fellows to perform their PhD-projects in our state of the art laboratories in collaboration with a number of clinical environments. Our VISION is to empower diverse research talent to become creative and responsible researchers, with an ability to translate their biomedical research into clinical value. The past decades have presented great breakthroughs in the fundamental knowledge required for understanding and diagnosing many diseases. However, the ability to move basic discoveries towards new treatments is lagging behind the pace of discovery. DISCOVER’s ambition is to inspire and enable fellows to a research career bridging basic and clinical research. This will be done as a joint venture between BRIC and a number of clinical partner organisations. Three programme CORNERSTONES are central to pursue the vision: • Build bridge across ‘bed and bench’ • Discover approaches and tools to stimulate creativity and translation of research • Explore and implement sustainability in biomedical research With DISCOVER we will address an unmet need for closer ties between basic research and the clinic, through education of translational researchers with abilities move basic biomedical research findings down the path towards treatment. To widen their career perspectives, fellows will reflect on own competences and career goals and individually choose translational skill training and career activities to reach their goals
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Participants
- KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · KOBENHAVNCoordinatorDenmark
Links
- View on CORDIS
- DOI: 10.3030/101034291
- http://www.discover.ku.dk
- https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/documents/downloadPublic?documentIds=080166e5ee73aad7&appId=PPGMS
- https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/documents/downloadPublic?documentIds=080166e5ee740506&appId=PPGMS
- https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/documents/downloadPublic?documentIds=080166e5f711f8c6&appId=PPGMS
Data: CORDIS, © European Union