Call Expression of Interest MSCA Postdoctoral fellowships at UNIGE – Dysregulation

Department of Internal and Specialty Medicine

University of Genoa, UNIGE, located in Genoa, ITALY, welcomes postdoctoral researchers of any nationality, with an excellent track record, to apply to the European Commission Marie Sklodowska-Curie (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026. Our University has been beneficiary of several MSCA-PF in Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe.

The Marie Sklodowska Curie (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship is one of funding scheme of the European Commission’s Horizon Europe Research & Innovation programme, dedicated to excellent research promoting international mobility, as well as interdisciplinary and intersect oral exchanges.

MSCA fellowship grant provides a competitive salary plus mobility and family allowances if applicable, as well as a contribution to cover research, training and networking costs. The research projects will have 2- or 3-years duration.

Selected candidates will be provided with special support for proposal writing and development
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The University of Genoa will organize in May the fifth edition of the Masterclass MSCA@Uni Ge. Selectedcandidate researchers will have the opportunity to attend a 2-days online intensive training and coaching course on how to write a successful proposal. This masterclass is a pathway of support to candidates and their supervisors in preparing project proposal, including prescreening activity of the draft proposals and the organisation of dedicated B2B meetings, by the European Research Office of Uni Ge, National Contact Point and other experts.

The masterclass will take place in Spring 2026
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Immune system has a critical role in acute and chronic human diseases. Lack of adequate and/or appropriate immune responses may determine both susceptibility to infections and chronic inflammation. The understanding of immune responses is a key step to improve clinical and therapeutic handling of human diseases, a complex task since individual Immune Systems are widely different due to gene differences and interaction of individuals with infections and environmental factors.

Immune responses take places in the organs orchestrated by tissue mechanisms. Foxp3+Regulatory T (TR) cells play a requisite role in peripheral immunological tolerance. Their function must be continually tuned to allow tissue-specific protective immune responses while preventing chronic inflammation and autoimmunity. Relevant to this essential process, recently it has been shown that several mechanisms may subvert tissue TR function to promote disease.

Our lab is studying the mechanisms that regulate immune regulation in the tissues, we have contributed to elucidate the key role of these mechanisms in diseases like Multiple Sclerosis, Viral Pneumonia and several others, defining new targets for therapies.

The lab of Clinical And Experimental Immunology lab is fully equipped to perform all the basic experiments needed to characterise immune responses. It has equipment for cell cultures, characterisation of functional responses by flow cytometry, cytokine and chemokine measurements, basic molecular biology based techniques. Moreover, we are leading an integrated infrastructure to study and characterise immune responses, in collaboration with other Departments at Unige as well as at the CNR and foreign institutions, for a full characterisation of Immune responses.

Thanks to this organisation, we can offer the possibility to access very high end technologies and to interact with scientists with different expertises and skill. thus offering a unique opportunity to develop competitive and ambitious projects.

An expression of interest shall be sent to prof. Raffaele De Palma (raffaele.depalma , Orcid :

-8878) within 15th April 2025.
Your file should contain the following elements:

For MSCA-PF 26 call (opening foreseen on 10th April 2026), at the deadline for the submission of proposals (9th September 2026) postdoctoral candidates shall have a maximum of 8 years of postdoctoral research experience and must not have resided or carried out their main activities in Italy (for European Fellowship) or in the Third Country of the outgoing phase (for Global Fellowship) for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the above mentioned deadline.