i-Teams 4th round: apply by September 24!

4TH ROUND IS NOW OPEN FOR APPLICATION: APPLY BY SEPTEMBER 24!

i-Teams brings together the brightest graduate students, as well as postdocs, and the University’s ground-breaking research to develop commercially viable strategies and build valuable university-industry links.

Participate in a highly motivated and scientifically diverse team, interacting extensively with leading academic and industrial partners, to help bring a cutting-edge technology to the market and improve global health!

WHY PARTICIPATE TO I-TEAMS?

• Have fun and work with other UNIGE students from diverse fields at the Faculty of Medicine Translational Accelerator office, meetings are once a week Tuesdays during lunch time (12h-14h with a complimentary lunch).
• Contribute to translation of ideas into innovations, which could improve the quality of life for patients around the globe.
• Work as part of a motivated team, learning innovation, product development techniques, and entrepreneurial skills.
• Meet leaders and make contacts from the Health Valley private industries and academic centers.
• Obtain business experience in the industrial developmental process in the private sector.
• Earn 2.0 external credits (2 ECTS) toward your PhD program.

THIS SEMESTERS CUTTING-EDGE MEDICAL INNOVATIONS:

1. Specially composed music for premature infants strengthens the development of their brain networks and could limit the neurodevelopmental delays that often affect these children.
2. Insulin-producing organoids engineered from islet and amniotic epithelial cells to treat diabetes : development towards a bioartificial pancreas.
3. A simple wearable system with real-time feedback for home-based gait retraining : a rehabilitation device composed of ultra-thin and flexible pressure sensor insoles and a smartphone application for the patient. 

HOW TO APPLY ?

• The next application deadline is September 24^th, 2020 and the project selection meeting on September 28^th, 2020.
• Details of the program are available at  https://ta.unige.ch/en/i-teams-programme/
• If you wish to join us on this adventure please write your interests and a short resume of your experience to i-teams(at)unige.ch or myself at vincent.wagner(at)unige.ch at the UNIGE Faculty of Medicine Translational Accelerator.