MedTrain+

About MedTrain+

MedTrain+ is the successor Industry-Academia Training, Career Development and Mobility Fellowship Programme at CÚRAM, Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Centre for Research in Medical Devices to MedTrain+ (GA 101081457). The MedTrain+ Programme aims to enhance the creative, entrepreneurial, and innovative potential of researchers via advanced training and international and inter-sectoral mobility. Fellows will be based at one of nine CÚRAM academic organisations: University of Galway (NUI Galway), University College Cork (UCC), University College Dublin (UCD), the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), Trinity College Dublin (TCD), University of Limerick (UL), Dublin City University (DCU), National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training (NIBRT), and Technological University of the Shannon (TUS). These three-year Fellowships include a secondment to a non-academic research partner in any country appropriate to further each fellow's research, training and career development needs. Two fellowship levels will be offered to 50 candidates over two calls, ensuring varying depths of experience:  

Level 1: The appointed candidate will have a doctoral degree and 0-4 years of postdoctoral research experience in the relevant CÚRAM research areas or will have > 4 years of full-time equivalent research experience in the relevant CÚRAM research areas. 

Level 2: The appointed candidate will have a doctoral degree and > 4 years of postdoctoral research experience in the relevant CÚRAM research areas or will have > 8 years of full-time equivalent research experience in the relevant CÚRAM research areas. 

MedTrain+ Fellows will be recruited across calls over the five-year duration of the programme (2022-2027). The first call for applications ended on 14th August 2023. The second call was completed by 26th February 2024.  

Call 3 shall open to applications on 29th July 2024 (the online application system closes to submissions at midnight Irish time on 21st October 2024*). * Subject to change. 

MedTrain+ is on Twitter @MedTrainPlus  and LinkedIn @MedTrainPlus 

Contact details: Dr Manish Biyani: EU Programme Manager: medtrainplus@Curamdevices.ie  

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Excellent Science programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Grant Agreement [Grant Agreement No 101081457] and in part from CÚRAM, Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Medical Devices [under Grant Reference 13/RC/2073_P2].