Currently, two PhD scholarships are available for highly motivated students that want to join RTG 3096.

Both PhD positions will be based in Kenya, one in Nairobi at ESACIPAC and the other in Kilifi at KEMRI-Wellcome Trust. The Nairobi-based scholarship will focus on the subject of Social Sciences. The Kilifi-based project will comprise more practical work with analyzing samples using Immunology methods, e.g., flow cytometry. At least once a year, the scholarship holders will business travel from Kenya to Berlin / Germany for one to three weeks where they will join the PhD retreat to meet the other doctoral students, exchange ideas and experiences, and take part in courses of the doctoral program.

Both PhD students will follow the curriculum of the RTG and the Biomedical Sciences Graduate School to obtain a Graduate School certificate.

Project start will be April 1st, 2026.

 

About RTG 3096: as members of the German Research Foundation (DFG)-funded Research Training Group (RTG) 3096 'One Health Approach to Soil-Transmitted Helminths', successful applicants will work on scientific projects in an interdisciplinary manner within a structured doctoral program.

The projects address the three 'One Health' aspects:

1) human roundworm infections (close cooperation and fieldwork in Kenya/Africa),

2) roundworm infections in farm animals (chickens and pigs in Germany) and wildlife, and

3) environmental factors (sociological and economic field studies in Kenya and Germany).

The GRK will thus incorporate human, animal, and environmental aspects into the research and training of candidates in order to train “One Health” infectious disease specialists. After four years of training in the structured doctoral program and the acquisition of at least 30 CP, candidates have the opportunity to obtain a certificate for the successful completion of a graduate school.