Georgia Tech postdoctoral fellow Grazia Marsico has received a global fellowship from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, the European Commission’s flagship program for supporting top-notch postdoctoral researchers.
Marsico has been working in Associate Professor Ankur Singh’s lab for about a year and a half. The Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship will allow her to continue her training in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering for two years and support an additional year of study at the University of Tübingen in Germany.
“I am very excited to receive this fellowship that will allow me to continue my research at Georgia Tech and then return to Europe eventually,” said Marsico, who hails from Italy and earned her Ph.D. at National University of Ireland, Galway.
The postdoctoral fellows program supports excellent researchers working on an original research project, according to the European Commission, helping them develop their careers through international, interdisciplinary advanced training and experiences.
“The Marie Curie Actions are the most prestigious research funding, and this fellowship gives me the opportunity to continue working in world-leading labs, with cutting-edge projects, and to unlock the path to an academic position,” Marsico said.
In Singh’s lab, Marsico has been focused on engineering lymphoma organoids that will mimic the tumor microenvironment and serve as a tool to design therapeutic strategies. After her postdoc studies, she said she hopes to return to Italy as a university faculty member and researcher.
The European Commission reported that more than 8,000 experienced postdoctoral researchers applied for funding this year from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.
Fewer than one in seven received support — and fewer still received global fellowships to spend two years in non-European Union countries before returning for a final year of work. Projects in life sciences accounted for 22% of funded proposals.
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