Universität Basel: PhD Position in Neuroimmunology 100% PhD Position in Neuroimmunology 100% The Department of Biomedicine is a joint effort between the University of Basel and the University Hospitals Basel. It unites basic and clinical scientists to advance our understanding of health and disease and to develop pioneering therapies benefiting the lives of patients in areas of unmet need.
 
With more than 70 research groups and 900 employees, the Department of Biomedicine is the largest department at the University. We are located in the heart of Basel at 6 different locations. Be part of our future! The Clinical Neuroimmunology Laboratory in the Department of Biomedicine, headed by Professor Tobias Derfuss, is planning to open a PhD position in early Summer of 2025. Research in the lab is aimed at understanding the causes and pathomechanisms of autoimmune diseases affecting the nervous system, particularly multiple sclerosis and myasthenia gravis. Your position The goal of the project is to understand the cause of multiple sclerosis, focusing on the interactions between autoreactive B cell, the lyphotropic virus EBV, and the cellular anatomy of the central nervous system. Work will involve both patient samples and experiments involving live animals. Experimental methods include molecular and cell biology, flow cytometry, histology and microscopy, protein methods, and bioinformatics. Your profile We are looking for people who enjoy working in the lab, and with whom other people also enjoy working together. Basic research requires thought, patience, attention to detail, the commitment of large amounts of time and energy, and the ability to tolerate frustration. You need to be able to work independently, and also to work in a highly integrated way as part of a team, sometimes under circumstances that may seem like they benefit the team while the immediate benefit to you may not be clear. We offer you We are a small lab, and we offer a stable, friendly environment in which doctoral and medical students can develop their skills and their understanding, with solild support from people with experience in the various required techniques. We don't make unreasonable demands, and we are open to discuss more or less all aspects of the work and the environment. The Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel is very well equiped, and smartly run by people who understand what it takes to get cutting edge research done, and the community of PhD students here is well supported and socially welcoming. Application / Contact Interested applicants should contact the project leader Nicholas Sanderson by email at nicholas.sanderson@usb.ch , using as a subject exactly the text "neuroimmunology PhD 2025" Please include two things: a CV as a separate file, not larger than 1MB, and, as text included in the main body of the email, a five- to ten-sentence description of your most interesting research work so far (Masters project, undergraduate project, hobby project, etc), making clear what the question or goal was, what methods you used, what the results were, how you interpreted them. Also describe what was the least well planned aspect of the project, and how it could be improved. www.unibas.ch