PhD student position in Medical Science – Clinical Pharmacology at University of Uppsala

Inside solid tumors the individual cells often grow in close vicinity to each other and areas with mild to severe oxygen deficit, hypoxia, is formed within the tumor. The hypoxic tumor cells are likely to be less sensitive against traditional treatment options, e.g. several studies have demonstrated hypoxia-related resistance against radiotherapy. Most probably this is also true for several chemotherapeutic treatments.

Aim: To investigate the activity of different anticancer drugs on:

1. tumor cells cultivated in spheroids, i.e. small micro-tumors (0.1-1 mm) with a hypoxic core
2. tumor cells cultivated under hypoxic conditions in comparison to normoxic conditions,

with special attention to drugs with potentially increased hypoxic activity and their mechanisms.

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Position as PhD student in developmental psychology. The project that is the financial basis for the position concerns the relation between aggression and cognitive control functions (so called executive functions) in children, and how these factors longitudinally are related to peer relations.

Qualifications: The applicant must have a basic university degree with psychology as a major subject.

Specific Qualifications: Experience of performing testing and working with children, as well as shown administrative independence are considered as additional qualifications. Good knowledge in Swedish and English is required.

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Uppsala University hereby declares the following position to be open for application: PhD student position in Astronomy or Space and Plasma Physics at the Department of Physics and Astronomy

Are you interested in studying dynamical processes in young and evolved stars, the early evolution of galaxies, the origin of the chemical elements, the enrichment of interstellar matter with gas and dust from evolved stars, the formation of the solar system and other planetary systems, asteroids and comets, how the solar wind can penetrate the Earths protective magnetic field and how it affects other bodies in the solar system, energy transport and particle acceleration in space, and other space plasma phenomena?

Are you interested in using satellite clusters, analysing data from Saturn and its moons Titan and Enceladus, studying space with large radars, observing with the worlds largest telescope VLT in Chile, analysing data from space telescopes, or modelling phenomena and objects in space with supercomputers?

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Call for applications for doctoral studentships at BEEGS, Södertörn University
A total of 15 doctoral studentships are available this year in the Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS). Södertörn University invites applications within five disciplines:

• Business Administration
• Ethnology
• History
• Political Science and
• Sociology

These disciplines belong to two research areas:

• Historical Studies, and
• Politics, Economy and the Organisation of Society.

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