Doctoral (PhD) student position for studying new treatment strategies to prevent bone growth impairment and osteoporosis in childhood cancer survivors

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research?

Are you motivated to use advanced methods in bone research to enable more precise, individualized treatments of impaired bone health in childhood cancer survivors? Join us at Karolinska Institutet as a KID-PhD student within a project aiming to develop new treatment strategies to prevent growth retardation and osteoporosis in survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).

To be a doctoral student means to devote oneself to a research project under supervision of experienced researchers and following an individual study plan. For a doctoral degree, the equivalent of four years of full-time doctoral education is required.

The research group

You will join the Bone and Growth plate Research Group, led by Professor Lars Sävendahl, at the Department of Women´s and Childrens Health, Karolinska Institutet. Our research group includes other PhD-students, p...