Call For Expression Of Interest For Msca Postdoctoral Fellowships At Unige – N. 36 Unraveling T[] GENOVA

Call For Expression Of Interest For Msca Postdoctoral Fellowships At Unige – N. 36 Unraveling T[]
Genova
Liguria, GENOVA

Department of Neuroscience, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetics and Maternal-Child Sciences DINOGMI Call for Expression of Interest for a joint application under the upcoming Call for MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 The University of Genoa (UNIGE), located in Genoa, ITALY, welcomes postdoctoral researchers of any nationality, with an excellent track record, to apply to the European Commission Marie Sklodowska-Curie (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025. Our University has been a beneficiary of several MSCA-PF in Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe. The Marie Sklodowska Curie (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship is a funding scheme of the European Commission's Horizon Europe Research & Innovation programme, dedicated to excellent research promoting international mobility, as well as interdisciplinary and intersectoral exchanges. The MSCA fellowship grant provides a competitive salary plus mobility and family allowances if applicable, as well as a contribution to cover research, training, and networking costs. The research projects will have 2- or 3-year durations. Selected candidates will be provided with special support for proposal writing and development. The University of Genoa will organize in May the fifth edition of the Masterclass MSCAUniGe. Selected candidate researchers will have the opportunity to attend a 2-day online intensive training and coaching course on how to write a successful proposal. This masterclass is a pathway of support to candidates and their supervisors in preparing project proposals, including prescreening activity of the draft proposals and the organization of dedicated B2B meetings, by the European Research Office of UniGe, National Contact Point, and other experts. The masterclass will take place in May and June 2025 , with the first online training session scheduled on the 8th May 2025. Research Project Overview REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a parasomnia characterized by the loss of physiological muscle tone during REM sleep, leading to events in which subjects act out their dreams. Initially, people with RBD usually do not exhibit significant neurological signs or symptoms, aside from the sleep-related events. However, RBD has been demonstrated to be a prodromal stage of alpha-synucleinopathy, with the majority of RBD patients developing parkinsonism and/or dementia within approximately 10 years from diagnosis. This project aims to evaluate clinical, neuroimaging, and neurophysiological markers to compute the risk of short-term phenoconversion and the longitudinal trajectory in patients suffering from RBD. Research Group The sleep lab of the DINOGMI is embedded in the Clinical Neurophysiology unit of the IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino. The sleep lab is equipped for monitoring the sleep-wake cycle with both ambulatory and laboratory devices. The sleep lab has a longstanding collaboration with the Nuclear Medicine, Neuroradiology, and Neuropsychology units. The research group includes neurologists, neurophysiologists, nuclear medicine specialists, neuroradiologists, and neuropsychologists. Additionally, the sleep lab collaborates with computational specialists, such as bioengineers, mathematicians, and physicists. For the MSCA-PF 25 call (opening foreseen on 9th April 2025), at the deadline for the submission of proposals (10th September 2025), postdoctoral candidates shall have a maximum of 8 years of postdoctoral research experience and must not have resided or carried out their main activities in Italy (for European Fellowship) or in the Third Country of the outgoing phase (for Global Fellowship) for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the abovementioned deadline. More info on MSCA PF at the following link: J-18808-Ljbffr