The Swedish Research Council (VR) provides funding for the programme, which was established in 2014. NDPIA is affiliated with MIMS (Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden, Umeå University) and the Swedish National Network for Infection Biology, which connect research environments of infectious disease and infection biology throughout Sweden.
The National Doctoral Programme in Infection and Antimicrobials (NDPIA) aims to connect research environments studying infection and antimicrobials at major Swedish universities and institutes and internationally by offering advanced training courses and meetings that promote scientific research and recruitment of young scientists.
The NDPIA programme offers its members participation in courses, workshops, conferences, and symposiums focused on basic and clinical research as well as advanced techniques. NDPIA supports participation in these activities and in relevant international courses through co-funding of travel and accommodation costs. No mandatory activities are included.
Examples of courses and workshops:
- AI applications in infection biology
- Microbiota and health
- Fundamentals of basic and applied phage biology
- Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance
- Mosquito-borne viruses and their vectors
- Live imaging of intracellular infections
- Vaccine to vaccination: from science to society
- Principles of infection biology
- One health and emerging infectious diseases
- Microbial immune evasion
- Phylogenomic methods for pathogen and resistance surveillance
- Designing clinical studies and trials on infectious diseases
- Practical course in applying medical nanotechnology in infectious diseases
PhD students and postdoctoral fellows may become NDPIA members if they are enrolled at a Swedish university/institute or with one of our international partners and if they are active in research on infections and/or antimicrobials.
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