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Pharmaceutical Policy and Regulation

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Background The Utrecht Centre for Pharmaceutical Policy and Regulation offers an international high quality PhD-programme for professionals with several years of relevant work experience. The unique format of the programme combines academic research and public health practice requiring candidates to use their work experience, data and policy issues as input for their PhD-thesis. The Utrecht Centre is a leading platform for independent multidisciplinary research which links drug regulation, pharmacoepidemiology, public health and policy analysis.

The Centre is based at the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Clinical Pharmacology of Utrecht University in the Netherlands, an internationally acclaimed research institute, and works closely with many well-known international partners such as the World Health Organization and the European Medicines Agency as well as with national partners such as the Dutch Medicines Evaluation Board and the National Health Care Institute.

Research Themes

The work of the Centre concentrates on the design and evaluation of pharmaceutical policies with a focus on Global Health, Drug Regulatory Science (e.g. drug approval) and health technology assessment (e.g. drug access, pricing and reimbursement).

More information Please read the flyer to learn more about the programme, what we offer and what type of candidates we are looking for: PhD programme professionals 2021_final

Application At the moment the application is closed. To be informed about the next application deadline, please send an e-mail to Dr. Rianne van den Ham, [email protected], and you will be put on the contact list.

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Supervising PhD Research

• Location Utrecht
• Duration 15 hours
• Starting moment 17 October 2024
• Language Nederlands, Engels
• Certification Certificaat
• Price €1,375

Supervising scientific research is a complicated process. The nature and possibilities of the researcher, the supervisor(s), and the type of research determine the best (intervention) strategy. This course aims to expand the repertoire of PhD supervisors, enabling them to offer supervision more efficiently and effectively.

Course content

As a daily supervisor or (co)promoter you are a content expert, but also a (co)researcher, coach and assessor. Supervisors learn to handle these roles more efficiently and effectively in this course. Topical questions are raised as: “How do you help the PhD student to become an independent researcher?,” “How do you signal problem behavior in time and how do you deal with it?”, “How do you take different personal work and learning styles into account?” and “How do you communicate about mutual expectations?”

The approach of the course is focused on mutual exchange of experiences and sharing of good practices. In this course you will build upon your current supervising practice by evaluating what already works and how you can elaborate on that. The challenging situations that you encounter in daily practice will be analyzed together to search for suitable (intervention) strategies. You will practice with effective communication with your PhD candidate and formulate a supervision plan with goals that are clear for you as well as the candidate, taking into account the limited time available for supervision. You will exchange tips and tricks with your colleagues and reflect on your own supervising practice. In addition, (semi-)scientific literature in the field of supervision of PhD candidates will be used to explore the implication of the theory on your day-to-day practice.

Suitable for

This course is primarily intended for daily supervisors and (co)promoters of PhD students at Utrecht University, but is also intended for supervisors of other universities and research institutions.

Number of participants

8 - 14 participants

Entry requirements

• During course participation, participants must supervise at least one PhD candidate.
• Your presence is required at all 4 course meetings.

The course will be taught in English.

The course price is €1.375. This includes the book: Supervising PhD Students. A practical guide and toolkit.

Fee for UU lecturers

Lecturers of Utrecht University can use O&T units (if available) or can otherwise participate at reduced rates. In either case in consultation with their own faculty.

Supervising PhD research: Next level

Are you an experienced PhD research supervisor? Then have a look at our new course Supervising PhD research – Next Level .

The course consists of four meetings of approximately 3 hours, spread over two months. Apart from meetings, the participants work on assignments linked to their own practice. The program covers a range of basic subjects. The level of detail will partly depend on the needs of participants; the precise program is based on the inventory of the strengths and weaknesses the participants introduce. The definitive program will be compiled before the start of the first session.

The following components are the building blocks for the program.

• Exchanging “tricks of the trade” by peer supervisors and reflecting on the implications for your own supervision practice.
• Developing a supervision plan including: the planning of the PhD program and how to guide your students towards specific learning objectives
• Assessing the progress of your PhD candidate: discussing content and procedure, but also recognizing risks and warning signals.
• Creating clarity about the mutual expectations of PhD students and supervisors
• Performing a strength / weakness analysis of your own PhD candidate(s), linked to: developing scenarios for challenging situations that regularly occur.
• Analyzing concrete challenging situations form your own supervision practice, and discussing suitable intervention strategies with your peers (peer consultation).
• Applying insights from practice-oriented core literature in the field of PhD supervision.
• Practicing with new supervising strategies (for example effective conversational skills) that can be used directly to improve your own supervision practice.
• Formulating, implementing and evaluating concrete action points (SMART) for the improvement of your own supervision practice.

The course will refer to international scientific publications in the field of PhD supervision, and use the book (costs included):

Kearns, H. & Finn, J. (2017). Supervising PhD Students. A practical guide and toolkit . Adelaide: ThinkWell.

October 2024

• 17 October 2024 • 7 November 2024 • 21 November 2024 • 12 December 2024

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Trainer: Pieter de Bordes

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“This course provided me with interesting insights to improve the alignment of expectations between me as a supervisor and my PhD students.”

Ewoudt van de Garde, Graduate School of Life Sciences (UU)

“This training made me more aware of my persona as a supervisor, and gave me useful tools to stimulate and guide my students through any circumstance. Discussing with and learning from peers is a big plus.”

Eljo van Battum, Graduate School of Life Sciences (UU)

“The course was very useful and hands-on. It helped me to structure the supervisory style I have, resulting in a supervisory roadmap that I can adjust to each individual PhD student. It was also great to be able to exchange experiences with other supervisors, particularly about the potential challenges of supervision during the pandemic.”

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Physicists report new insights into exotic particles key to magnetism

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MIT physicists and colleagues report new insights into exotic particles key to a form of magnetism that has attracted growing interest because it originates from ultrathin materials only a few atomic layers thick. The work, which could impact future electronics and more, also establishes a new way to study these particles through a powerful instrument at the National Synchrotron Light Source II at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Among their discoveries, the team has identified the microscopic origin of these particles, known as excitons. They showed how they can be controlled by chemically “tuning” the material, which is primarily composed of nickel. Further, they found that the excitons propagate throughout the bulk material instead of being bound to the nickel atoms.

Finally, they proved that the mechanism behind these discoveries is ubiquitous to similar nickel-based materials, opening the door for identifying — and controlling — new materials with special electronic and magnetic properties.

The open-access results are reported in the July 12 issue of Physical Review X .

“We’ve essentially developed a new research direction into the study of these magnetic two-dimensional materials that very much relies on an advanced spectroscopic method, resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS), which is available at Brookhaven National Lab,” says Riccardo Comin, MIT’s Class of 1947 Career Development Associate Professor of Physics and leader of the work. Comin is also affiliated with the Materials Research Laboratory and the Research Laboratory of Electronics.

Comin’s colleagues on the work include Connor A. Occhialini, an MIT graduate student in physics, and Yi Tseng, a recent MIT postdoc now at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY). The two are co-first authors of the Physical Review X paper.

Additional authors are Hebatalla Elnaggar of the Sorbonne; Qian Song, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Physics; Mark Blei and Seth Ariel Tongay of Arizona State University; Frank M. F. de Groot of Utrecht University; and Valentina Bisogni and Jonathan Pelliciari of Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Ultrathin layers

The magnetic materials at the heart of the current work are known as nickel dihalides. They are composed of layers of nickel atoms sandwiched between layers of halogen atoms (halogens are one family of elements), which can be isolated to atomically thin layers. In this case, the physicists studied the electronic properties of three different materials composed of nickel and the halogens chlorine, bromine, or iodine. Despite their deceptively simple structure, these materials host a rich variety of magnetic phenomena.

The team was interested in how these materials’ magnetic properties respond when exposed to light. They were specifically interested in particular particles — the excitons — and how they are related to the underlying magnetism. How exactly do they form? Can they be controlled?

Enter excitons

A solid material is composed of different types of elementary particles, such as protons and electrons. Also ubiquitous in such materials are “quasiparticles” that the public is less familiar with. These include excitons, which are composed of an electron and a “hole,” or the space left behind when light is shone on a material and energy from a photon causes an electron to jump out of its usual position.

Through the mysteries of quantum mechanics, however, the electron and hole are still connected and can “communicate” with each other through electrostatic interactions. This interaction leads to a new composite particle formed by the electron and the hole — an exciton.

Excitons, unlike electrons, have no charge but possess spin. The spin can be thought of as an elementary magnet, in which the electrons are like little needles orienting in a certain way. In a common refrigerator magnet, the spins all point in the same direction. Generally speaking, the spins can organize in other patterns leading to different kinds of magnets. The unique magnetism associated with the nickel dihalides is one of these less-conventional forms, making it appealing for fundamental and applied research.

The MIT team explored how excitons form in the nickel dihalides. More specifically, they identified the exact energies, or wavelengths, of light necessary for creating them in the three materials they studied.

“We were able to measure and identify the energy necessary to form the excitons in three different nickel halides by chemically ‘tuning,’ or changing, the halide atom from chlorine to bromine to iodine,” says Occhialini. “This is one essential step towards understanding how photons — light — could one day be used to interact with or monitor the magnetic state of these materials.” Ultimate applications include quantum computing and novel sensors.

The work could also help predict new materials involving excitons that might have other interesting properties. Further, while the studied excitons originate on the nickel atoms, the team found that they do not remain localized to these atomic sites. Instead, “we showed that they can effectively hop between sites throughout the crystal,” Occhialini says. “This observation of hopping is the first for these types of excitons, and provides a window into understanding their interplay with the material’s magnetic properties.”

A special instrument

Key to this work — in particular for observing the exciton hopping — is resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS), an experimental technique that co-authors Pelliciari and Bisogni helped pioneer. Only a few facilities in the world have advanced high energy resolution RIXS instruments. One is at Brookhaven. Pelliciari and Bisogni are part of the team running the RIXS facility at Brookhaven. Occhialini will be joining the team there as a postdoc after receiving his MIT PhD.

RIXS, with its specific sensitivity to the excitons from the nickel atoms, allowed the team to “set the basis for a general framework for nickel dihalide systems,” says Pelliciari. “it allowed us to directly measure the propagation of excitons.”

This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Basic Energy Science and Brookhaven National Laboratory through the Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage (C2QA), a DoE Quantum Information Science Research Center.

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Kelly Shaffer, PhD, and Chongzhi Zang, PhD, Join Cancer Center Leadership

August 6, 2024 by [email protected]

Kelly Shaffer, PhD, Chongzhi Zang, PhD

Kelly Shaffer, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, and Chongzhi Zang, PhD, Associate Professor of Genome Sciences, have joined UVA Cancer Center’s leadership in newly-created positions.

Dr. Shaffer has been appointed a co-lead of the Cancer Center’s Cancer Prevention and Population Health (CPH) research program, overseeing CPH’s new survivorship programmatic aim to optimize outcomes and achieve health equity among cancer patients and survivors through intervention development and implementation.

Dr. Zang is the Cancer Center’s inaugural Director of Computational Genomics. He will serve as a consultant and connector for investigators pursuing computational genomics research, foster increased collaboration with the School of Data Science, and work to improve utilization of the national Oncology Research Information Exchange Network (ORIEN), of which UVA is a member.

Cancer Center member faculty serve in one of four research programs, each representing an area of expertise important for understanding how cancer starts and progresses, and for development of interventions to detect, diagnose, treat and prevent it: Cancer Biology; Molecular Genetics and Epigenetics; Cancer Therapeutics; and CPH.

Dr. Shaffer joins Family Medicine Chair Li Li, MD, PhD, and Professor of Public Health Sciences Jamie Zoellner, PhD, RD, as a CPH program co-lead. Dr. Li oversees the program aim of advancing the science on cancer etiology, risk and progression, taking a cell-to-society perspective; and Dr. Zoellner the aim of preventing cancer and detecting cancer early through development and implementation of novel interventions.

A licensed clinical psychologist specializing in psycho-oncology, Dr. Shaffer sits on the faculty of the Center for Behavioral Health and Technology. In her research, she seeks to modernize and expand psychosocial care delivery to patients and their families through technology-based interventions. Her specific interests include increasing family caregivers’ access to psychosocial and behavioral interventions and female cancer survivors’ access to evidence-based sexual healthcare. She currently leads a factorial trial of internet-delivered intervention components to address cancer-related sexual dysfunction among breast cancer survivors that is funded by a 5-year, $3.1 million NCI R37 award. Previously, she led clinical trials evaluating the Sleep Healthy Using the Internet (SHUTi) intervention among family caregivers.

In announcing his appointment, Cancer Center Director Thomas P. Loughran Jr., MD, said that Dr. Zang “is ideally suited to the role as a highly accomplished, collaborative researcher and a dedicated mentor. While actively supporting young scientists and collaborating with researchers across Grounds, he looks forward to working with his Cancer Center colleagues to expand the impact of computational genomics in cancer research.”

Dr. Zang’s research focuses on developing computational methods for high-throughput genomics technologies, and on using data-science approaches to study epigenetics, chromatin and transcriptional regulation. He has developed several widely used tools for ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq, and transcription factor analysis, and has made groundbreaking discoveries in gene regulatory mechanisms in various biological systems and in human cancers through innovative computational work. He has published over 70 peer-reviewed journal papers and has received multiple NIH grants. His honors include a UVA Research Excellence Award in 2020 and a Vivian Pinn Scholar Award this year.

Dr. Zang earned his undergraduate degree in physics from Peking University and his PhD in physics from the George Washington University. He completed postdoctoral training in computational biology at Harvard University’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and joined the UVA School of Medicine as an assistant professor in 2016. He was promoted to associate professor in 2022 and awarded tenure this year. He also holds faculty appointments in the Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and Biomedical Engineering, and has served as a resident faculty member in the Department of Genome Sciences, formerly the Center for Public Health Genomics. He has been a Cancer Center member since 2017.

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New Faculty Spotlight: Peter Ricci Pellegrino, MD, PhD

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Peter Ricci Pellegrino, MD, PhD

Peter Ricci Pellegrino, MD, PhD, is a new faculty member at UNMC.

• Name : Peter Ricci Pellegrino, MD, PhD 
• Title and department at UNMC : Assistant professor, UNMC Department of Anesthesiology
• Hometown : Minneapolis

What drew me to anesthesiology : Anesthesiology is an amazing discipline with diverse subspecialties that span the breadth of patient care with a particular emphasis on providing critical care and palliation to patients in their most vulnerable states, and I love pretty much everything about it.  

Education background:  

• MD, PhD in physiology, UNMC
• BSE in biomedical engineering, University of Iowa 

Professional Memberships:  

• American Society of Anesthesiologists 
• American College of Cardiology 
• American Heart Association 
• American Physiological Society 
• Early-Stage Anesthesiology Scholars 
• International Anesthesia Research Society 
• Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists 
• Society of Critical Care Medicine 
• American Academy of Pain Medicine 
• American Society of Regional Anesthesia 
• North American Neuromodulation Society 
• International Neuromodulation Society 
• International Pain and Spine Intervention Society  
• Alpha Omega Alpha 

What are you most looking forward to as you join the department?  

I am most excited for my elevated role in patient care. We have the capacity and duty to make a profound impact on our patients’ lives, and I take that very seriously. 

Three things people may not know about me :

• I spent most of my time in combined medical and graduate school believing I would forego residency training and pursue a research-only career, but I realized how much I loved taking care of patients as a third-year medical student, and my last eight years of clinical training have been extremely rewarding.  
• I find something about washing dishes therapeutic. 
• I am a fan of the recently relegated Frosinone soccer club. We’ll be back. 

Dr. Ricci Pellegrino,

Welcome to UNMC the home of the best in medicine! Glad you are cheering for Frosinone soccer club! In the 2023/2024 Serie A season, Frosinone finished 18th on the table and were relegated back to Serie B. Yes, we will be back!!!! Forza Frosinone!!!! Best wishes!

Hooray!! Well deserved. Anesthesiology department made a great decision!

Welcome to the next stage in your career! Another success of our MD-PhD program, and now enriching our faculty, so glad you are here with us.

Congratulations Peter: Hope to get you back in the fold and get the K08 submitted.

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Postdoc position: global modelling of direct potable reuse.

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to explore the potential of direct potable water reuse with the aim to reduce global water scarcity.

Roughly two billion people worldwide lack access to safe drinking water. In water scarcity hotspots around the globe, non-renewable groundwater storage is being depleted, and surface water resources are overallocated. This has led to an unsustainable situation, where there is a large water gap between the demand and availability of freshwater. Direct potable reuse (DPR) – introducing highly purified wastewater into urban water supply systems – is one promising solution strategy to reduce this water gap in urban areas. You will explore the potential of DPR systems to mitigate water scarcity at global, national, and regional scales.

As a postdoc, you will be part of the National Geographic Society - World Water Map project . You will work with an international team of researchers from Utrecht University and the Joint Global Change Research Institute. Using the Global Change Analysis Model (GCAM), you will measure the multisector implications of DPR under a range of socioeconomic and climate change scenarios. Your work will explore the impacts of DPR on the energy, urban, and agricultural sectors and map regional teleconnections resulting from DPR investments.

Your qualities

We are looking for someone with the following qualifications:

• a PhD in environmental sciences, water or energy resources research, (socio-)hydrology or a related field;
• proven knowledge and peer-reviewed publications in the field of environmental sciences, water or energy resources research or (socio-)hydrology;
• sound understanding of water systems in the context of global change;
• willingness to integrate insights from stakeholder engagement and participatory research with quantitative water-energy system modelling of our research group;
• experience with programming languages (Python / R) ideally using spatial and temporal datasets;
• interested in highly interdisciplinary collaborations;
• sensitive to the fact that successful and impactful research is a team effort;
• excellent English oral and scientific writing skills.
• a position for one year, with an extension to a total of two years upon a successful assessment in the first year;
• a working week of 38 hours and a gross monthly salary between €3,226 and €5,090 in the case of full-time employment (salary scale 10 under the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities (CAO NU)); 
• 8% holiday pay and 8.3% year-end bonus; 
• a pension scheme, partially paid parental leave and flexible terms of employment based on the CAO NU. 

In addition to the  terms of employment  laid down in the CAO NU, Utrecht University has a number of schemes and facilities of its own for employees. This includes schemes facilitating  professional development , leave schemes and schemes for  sports and cultural activities , as well as discounts on software and other IT products. We also offer access to additional employee benefits through our Terms of Employment Options Model. In this way, we encourage our employees to continue to invest in their growth. For more information, please visit  Working at Utrecht University .

A better future for everyone. This ambition motivates our scientists in executing their leading research and inspiring teaching. At  Utrecht University , the various disciplines collaborate intensively towards major  strategic themes . Our focus is on Dynamics of Youth, Institutions for Open Societies, Life Sciences and Pathways to Sustainability.  Sharing science, shaping tomorrow .

Utrecht University’s Faculty of Geosciences studies the Earth: from the Earth’s core to its surface, including man’s spatial and material utilisation of the Earth – always with a focus on sustainability and innovation. With 3,400 students (BSc and MSc) and 720 staff, the faculty is a strong and challenging organisation. The Faculty of Geosciences is organised in four Departments: Earth Sciences, Human Geography & Spatial Planning, Physical Geography, and Sustainable Development.

The team of the department of Physical Geography excels in research and education on BSc, MSc and PhD level. We research processes, patterns and dynamics of Earth’s systems from the mountains to the sea, and the interaction in between. This knowledge is essential for the sustainable management of our planet and to guarantee the availability of resources for the next generations. We are a lively department that hosts an active early career community (PhD candidates, researchers and lecturers). We organise a warm welcome for every new member.

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For more information, please contact Dr Ir. David Gold  (assistant professor) at  [email protected] .

Candidates for this vacancy will be recruited by Utrecht University.

As Utrecht University, we want to be a  home  for everyone. We value staff with diverse backgrounds, perspectives and identities, including cultural, religious or ethnic background, gender, sexual orientation, disability or age. We strive to create a safe and inclusive environment in which everyone can flourish and contribute.

To apply, please send your curriculum vitae, including a letter of motivation, via the ‘apply now’ button.

The interviews are on 18 September 2024. The first round can be online via MS Teams. The preferred starting date is 1 December 2024.

The application deadline is 2 September 2024.

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Doing a Phd

If you have completed your Master's programme, and you are enthusiastic about doing research in your field, then maybe doing a Doctorate (PhD) might be something for you. A Doctor’s degree is the highest academic degree awarded by a Dutch university. You start as 'assistant in training' (aio) or 'researcher in training' (oio).

At Utrecht University

At Utrecht University you take part in education in one of the Graduate Schools and often also teach students. During the four-year PhD programme you work under the guidance of a professor on creating a research project that results in a dissertation or a series of articles in scientific journals. You can search for positions on research projects on offer or a position whereby you are free to submit your own research proposal. Read more on doing a PhD at Utrecht University. 

Other options

The best way to find a PhD position is through networking with the professor in the field you wish to specialize. Another option is to search via www.academictransfer.nl . Here you can also find more information on doing PhD research in the Netherlands. 

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