PHD Scholarship
InnovInOnco Graduate Programme
Call for Excellence Doctoral Scholarship
Aim of the thesis:
This Doctoral scholarship is allocated for 3 years from september 2025 to august 2028 or a motivated applicant eager to work on in an interdisciplinary doctoral program dedicated to Oncology.
Application Procedure
Phase 1 – Selection of eligible PhD projects.
Phase 2 – Selection of PhD student (see eligibility criteria below)
Phase 1
Project co-leaders should send one page of the PhD project together with a possible candidate CV letter and academic record to:
- Caroline Moyret-Lalle: caroline.moyret-lalle@univ-lyon1.fr
- Charlotte Rivière: charlotte.riviere@univ-lyon1.fr
- Frederic Hollande: frederic.hollande@unimelb.edu.au
Host institution: University Lyon 1 and University of Melbourne
Research units and hosting laboratories associated: the project should be associated with one team within the Graduate initiative InnovInOnco and one team within the University of Melbourne.
Graduate Initiative InnovInOnco teams
- CRCL, all teams (https://www.crcl.fr/en/home/)
- ILM, biophysic team (https://tinyurl.com/BiophysicsULyon)
- INL, Devices for health and environment (team https://inl.cnrs.fr/en/endispositifs-pour-la-sante-et-lenvironnement/)
- ICBMS (https://fabric-advanced-biology.univ-lyon1.fr/)
- 3dFAB (https://fabric-advanced-biology.univ-lyon1.fr/)
- Ampère lab, bio-engineering department (http://www.ampere-lab.fr/spip.php?rubrique89&lang=en)
- University of Melbourne (Australia)
Associated Doctoral Schools: CanBios, EEA, Matériaux, PHAST
Scholarship amount:
The amount of the doctoral scholarship is € 2100/month (gross salary) for 3 years.
Eligibility criteria for the PhD project:
- Feasability of the co-supervision
- Pluridisciplinarity of the project
- Complementarity of the 2 teams
- Expertise of PhD supervisors
Eligibility criteria for the PhD students:
- Being a foreign student, new to a French university, living outside France at the time of application (dual citizenship accepted)
- Having obtained a Master’s degree in a field related to the Graduate initiatives
Award criteria:
- Excellence of the academic background
- Research experiences inside and outside Academia
- Motivation and consistency of the professional project
To be enclosed with the application:
- A letter of recommendation of the potential thesis supervisor validating the PhD project. The supervisor must be affiliated with a Graduate initiative research unit or hosting laboratory
- Curriculum Vitae (2 pages max)
- Transcripts of records from Bachelor’s degree
- If applicable, abstracts of the candidate’s previous work (e.g. dissertation, books, internship reports, scientific articles…)
- Motivation letter
- Letter of recommendation: written by former or current professors, lecturers, tutors or supervisors (Master’s thesis supervisor for instance)
- Certificate of English level (TOEFL, IELTS, ECRL), except for English native speakers
- Copy of an official identity document
Calendar and selection procedure
1- Project selection:
- Submissions open: 03/02/2025
- Deadline for applications: 17/03/2025
- Selection committee: 24/03/2025
- Decisions of acceptance: 24/03/2025
2- PhD selection:
- Submissions open: 31/03/2025
- Deadline for applications: 02/06/2025
- Selection committee: 07/07/2025
- Decisions of acceptance: 07/07/2025
Start of PhD: September 2025
For further information, please contact:
- Caroline Moyret-Lalle: caroline.moyret-lalle@univ-lyon1.fr
- Charlotte Rivière : charlotte.riviere@univ-lyon1.fr
- Frederic Hollande : frederic.hollande@unimelb.edu.au
he PhD project (phase 1) are described in the table below:
The criteria for the selection of the applicants (phase 2) are described in the table below. This will be used to establish a score that will serve as a basis for ranking applicants, according to specified scoring percentages.
A vote of the Selection Committee will be used if the procedure does not allow to rank the candidates.