Research projects

• NIN aims to co-fund a number of collaborative Ph.D. projects between NIN group leaders and psychiatrists/ psychiatry researchers at the PI level.

 

• Because we hope that this initiative will also increase the number of young psychiatrists interested in neuroscience, these Ph.D. projects shall preferentially be carried out by an MD with psychiatry ANIOS experience or a psychiatrist in training. Alternatives are possible such as a “tandem structure” in which a psychiatrist in training works together with a PhD candidate who does or does not hold an MD.

 

• The project needs to have a clear interaction between fundamental neuroscience research  + clinical research.

 

• A selection committee will have the proposals reviewed internationally based on selection criteria.

Funding of selected projects

• NIN will appoint and pay for the MD / PhD candidates’ salary + bench fee

 

• NIN asks the collaborating psychiatry departments to fund the involvement of the psychiatrist in training and if possible, reinvest the PhD bonus for future projects in this program.

 

• Exact types of appointments and funding ratios will be flexible, we understand that it will need to fit the needs of the candidates. Excellence of the research project is leading.

 
More information will be provided when the call for research proposals will be opened (expected December 2025)

Deadline for submission of research proposals is expected to be in February 2026