Scholarship Announcement for a Research Project

For the TÜBİTAK-supported research project, which will run from 1 May 2015 to 1 May 2018, titled "Investigation of the Physicochemical and Biological Properties of Structure-Based Designed Oxazolone and Imidazolone Derivatives as Next-Generation Antihypertensive Molecules by Molecular Modeling and Biophysical Methods, and Analysis of Their Possible Inhibitory Effects on Cell Proliferation" , 2 doctoral and 1 master's scholarship holders will be recruited. The research will be carried out at the Computational Biology and Molecular Simulations Laboratory of the Bahçeşehir University School of Medicine under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Serdar DURDAGI.

The scholarship amount is 1,800 TL for doctoral students and 1,200 TL for the master's student. The scholarship period is 36 months.

Interested candidates should apply with their CV to the email address below:

serdar.durdagi@med.bahcesehir.edu.tr 

Required Qualifications 

Doctoral Student 1:

- A degree from a university department such as Computer Engineering or Electrical and Electronics Engineering, and proficiency in programming languages (C, Python, C++, etc.).

- Interest in computational biology and medicinal chemistry applications of biological systems and, in rational drug design, in protein engineering and dynamics, ligand- and structure-based drug design, and protein–drug and protein–protein interactions.

- Proficiency in English

Doctoral Student 2:

- A degree from a university department such as Chemistry, Biology, Molecular Biology and Genetics, or Pharmacy, and proficiency in the Linux operating system and its commands.

- Interest in computational biology and medicinal chemistry applications of biological systems and, in rational drug design, in protein engineering and dynamics, ligand- and structure-based drug design, and protein–drug and protein–protein interactions.

- Proficiency in English

- Master's Student:

- A degree from a university department such as Chemistry, Biology, Molecular Biology and Genetics, or Pharmacy

- Interest in computational biology and medicinal chemistry applications of biological systems and, in rational drug design, in protein engineering and dynamics, ligand- and structure-based drug design, and protein–drug and protein–protein interactions.

- Proficiency in English