NEWS

The Call for 17 PhD, that was opened on the 31^st of March, is now closed and the selected Doctoral Candidates are listed below:

DC1      Ela Radošević (Croatia)

DC2      Dionysios Kampasis (Greece)

DC3      Shahzeb Khan (Pakistan)

DC4      Vicente Ledesma (Spain)

DC5      Irene Castellino (Italy)

DC6      Alexandra Lobyntseva (Israel)

DC7      Arthur Galushkin (Russia)

DC8      Marion Le Meur (France)

DC9      Xuanyu Huang (China)

DC10    Ioanna Kourouzidou (Cyprus)

DC11    Silvia Mori (Italy)

DC12    Tânia Alves (Portugal)

DC13    Nikolaos Vareltzakis (Greece)

DC14    Mrutyunjaya Panda (India)

DC15    Xue Wu (China)

DC16    Alexandros Zantis (Cyprus)

DC17    Kazi Ishrak Faiyaz (Bangladesh)

She is Xue Wu and her project is TECHNOLOGY-TAILORED COMMERCIALIZATION OF DRUG DEVELOPMENT FOR AD which will be performed at Ghent University under the supervision of Professor Mirjam Knockaert jointly with Prof Paolo Blasi at University of Bologna.

They are Silvia Mori and Alexandros Zantis, our DC11 and DC16.

Silvia's project is the DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF PHOTOSWITCHABLE OREXIN RECEPTOR LIGANDS FOR CONTROL OF CIRCADIAN RHYTHM IN AD, which will be performed at Würzburg and Lisbon Universities.

Alexandros is starting the double doctorate with Teesside University and Bologna University with the project entitled DEVELOPMENT OF A CIRCADIAN RHYTHM-BASED DRUG REPURPOSING STRATEGY FOR AD.

Today, Irene Castellino started her PhD. Her project, HIT SELECTION STRATEGIES FOR IDENTIFICATION OF KINASE INHIBITORS MODULATING CIRCADIAN RHYTHM IN AD will be conducted jointly at Hradec Kralove University and at Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna under the supervision of Professor Kamil Musilek and Professor Manuela Bartolin, respectively.

Ioanna Kourouzidou has joined the TClock4AD Consortium. She will spend two years at Biofabics under the supervision of Dr Costa and one at Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri under the supervision of Dr Albani. The double degree will be awarded by University Santiago de Compostela and University of Verona.

The TClock4AD group is growing fast! Most of the PhDs have already started and we are really looking forward to meet all of them soon.

Today, Ishrak begins his PhD at Teesside University, a TClock4AD Associated Partner, under the supervision of Professor Tora Smulders-Srinivasan. He will also spend part of his PhD studies at the University of Bologna, under the supervision of Professor Manuela Bartolini.

We finally met in Madrid for the first TClock4AD training event. The workshop was held at IMDEA, and all the PhD students who were already enrolled participated in person. Those who were still waiting for their visas attended the event online. Great speakers introduced our DCs to the state of the art in the field of Alzheimer's disease. In the picture, we are wearing our BIG corporate T-Clock4AD-shirts.

Just ahead of the Christmas holidays, Mrutyunjaya Panda, AKA Jay, has joined FORTH to pursue his Ph.D. under the expert guidance of Professor Tavernarakis. Following  TClock4AD programme he will spend 10 months of his doctoral studies at University of Verona, supervised by Professor Constantin. 

Welcome aboard, Jay!

Alexandra Lobyntseva has joined Santiago de Compostela University where she will spend two years under the supervision of Prof Alonso. During her PhD studies Alexandra will spend 10 months in Tel Aviv University under the supervision of Prof Gozes and a 2-month secondment in Alnylam Pharmaceuticals – USA.

Artur Galushkin has recently joined Tel Aviv University, where he will conduct the majority of his PhD studies under the supervision of Prof. Gozes. To finalize his project, Artur will move to Santiago de Compostela University where he will be supervised by with Prof. Alonso and to Biofabics for the industrial secondment.

Welcome aboard, Artur! Now, all that is left is for the last DC to hurry up and join TClock4AD so we can finally shout "Team Complete!"

We are thrilled to announce that today, with the arriving of Shah Zeb Khan at Nostrum biodiscovery, the team od TClock4AD DCs is complete!

Shah Zeb will be supervised by Dr. Chiara Pallara in Barcelona and Prof Barbara Monti at University of Bologna

Go TClock4AD Go!!

We are very proud to announce that Xuanyu Huang, DC at IRFMN (Milan, Italy) has been awarded with one of the six "Meetings & Courses Fellowship 2024" by ESRS (European Sleep Research Society) and has been invited to attend the conference Sleep Europe 2024. Congratulation!