Karolinska Institutet,

The Department of Laboratory Medicine consists of seven divisions and is active in many areas of Laboratory Medicine. The department is involved in advanced basic scientific, clinical and epidemiological research. The department is one of the largest departments of education at Karolinska Institutet.

We are recruiting a student for doctoral education.

For more information regarding doctoral (PhD) education, see: http://www.ki.se/doctoral.

Research group
The research group lead by Associate Professor Eleni Aklillu at the division of clinical pharmacology, Department of Laboratory Medicine focuses on identifying genetic and environmental factors that contribute to inter-individual and inter-ethnic variation in drug disposition and treatment outcome. We are conducting various clinical research projects with focus on Global health pharmacology and treatment optimization of infectious diseases that are major public health problems in Sub-Saharan Africa, such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).

We are looking for a highly motivated doctoral student who is interested in pharmacovigilance, pharmacogenetics, and pharmacokinetics of drug used for treatment of NTDs.

The doctoral education project and the duties of the student
The doctoral project aims to pharmacovigilance and post-marketing surveillance of mass drug administration and immunizations deployed under public health programs in PROFORMA project in African (http://proforma.ki.se/). The student i) must have a strong interest in pharmacovigilance and active cohort event monitoring studies ii) willing to work in a multinational collaborative work and be part of the project management team. The student will be responsible for study protocol development, ethics applications, fieldwork and data collection, laboratory analysis, result interpretation, manuscript writing and publications.

Entry requirements for doctoral education at KI
To be eligible for doctoral education, the following requirements have to be met:

General entry requirements
A person meets the general entry requirements for doctoral/third-cycle/PhD education (according to Higher Education Ordinance Chapt 7, section 39) if he/she:

  1. has been awarded advanced/second-cycle/master qualification (i.e. master degree) or
  2. has satisfied the requirements for courses comprising at least 240 credits of which at least 60 credits were awarded in the second-cycle/master level, or
  1. has acquired substantially equivalent knowledge in some other way in Sweden or abroad.

For more information regarding the general entry requirements, please see:
https://ki.se/en/phd/entry-requirements-eligibility-for-doctoral-education

Specific entry requirements
Proficiency in English equivalent to the course English B/English 6 at Swedish upper secondary school. Applicants who meet the general entry requirements (1 or 2 above) from a university in one of the Nordic countries fulfill the English language requirement.

For information on how other applicants can certify their English proficiency (such as through IELTS or TOEFL, previous upper secondary or university level studies), please see:
https://ki.se/en/phd/entry-requirements-eligibility-for-doctoral-education

Skills and personal qualities
Applicants should:

- Have a master’s degree in Public Health Sciences or Pharmacoepidemiology, and have a strong interest in clinical pharmacology

- Have knowledge and experience in cohort study design, data collection and analysis.

- Experience in project management and working in a multinational collaborative research team is a strong merit.

- Willing to travel for fieldwork in Africa.

- Fluency in written and spoken English and Swedish is required.

- Ability to speak one or more local languages spoken in Africa is an advantage.

Assessment criteria
A selection will be made among qualified applicants on the basis of the ability to benefit from doctoral education. Karolinska Institutet uses the following bases of assessment:

- Documented subject knowledge of relevance to the area of research

- Analytical skill

- Other documented knowledge or experience that may be relevant to doctoral studies in the subject.

The qualifications of the applicants will be evaluated on an overall basis.

Terms and conditions
All doctoral students at KI receive financial support during their doctoral education and employment on a doctoral studentship is the most common sort of support.

Application process
The application must contain the following documents in Swedish or English:

  • A personal letter and a curriculum vitae
  • Academic degree diplomas, transcripts of records in original language and, if applicable, authorised translations
  • Copies of degree projects and any previous publications
  • Proof of English proficiency as stated in the specific requirement above

All documents certifying the entry requirements must be scans of originals (scans of copies or certified copies will not be accepted). The scanned documents must be in color and both the front and the back of the documents must be scanned. Please note that there are specific documentation requirements for a number countries, please read the instructions at:

https://ki.se/en/phd/entry-requirements-eligibility-for-doctoral-education

The application and supporting documents are to be submitted through the Varbi recruitment system.

Type of employment PhD placement
Contract type Full time
First day of employment HT 2018
Salary månadslön
Reference number 2-4249/2018
Contact
  • Eleni Aklillu, 08-58587887
Union representative
  • Carina Eklund, OFR, carina.eklund@ki.se
  • Emilie Hultin, Annica Lindkvist, SACO, emilie.hultin@ki.se, annica.lindkvist@ki.se
  • Karin Olsson, SEKO, karin.olsson@ki.se
Published 13.Aug.2018
Last application date 04.Sep.2018 11:59 PM CEST

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