PhD student: Investigating metabolic plasticity of human skeletal muscle using novel engineered pluripotent stem cell-based organoids

Skeletal muscle plays a central role in coupling movement and metabolism. If you are motivated to work at the intersection of stem cell research, genomics and tissue engineering, join our dynamic research team at the Stem Cell Institute at KULeuven to engineer novel skeletal muscle organoid systems to study the metabolic plasticity of human skeletal muscle.

The Yilmaz Laboratory for Cell Fate Transition Research is part of a broad network of research groups at KU Leuven, which ranks among the worlds top 50 universities, with excellent expertise in cell biology, genomics, bioinformatics, tissue engineering and metabolomics in mammalian cells and in different organisms. As a PhD candidate under the supervision of Prof. Atilgan Yilmaz, you will work in close collaboration with the laboratory of Prof. Ioannis Papantoniou, a leading expert in tissue engineering and biofabrication. You will be a member of the highly international Leuven Stem Cell Institute () and utilize a unique c...