Study Abroad: Apply For BRIDGE Translational Excellence Programme

Interested candidates can apply for BRIDGE - a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Translational Medicine in Denmark. The last date to apply for Fellowship is February 15, 2024.

University of Copenhagen in the UK is offering Bridge Fellowships. It is funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation and is a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Translational Medicine. BRIDGE fellowship is offered annually to selected PhDs. The first cohort of Fellowships started in 2019. BRIDGE I includes fellowships for 2019 and 2021, and from 2021-2023, there were three cohorts of fellows which came under BRIDGE II. Now, BRIDGE III will have fellows in February 2024, 2025, 2026 and 2027.

A BRIDGE fellowship mainly consists of three core elements including research, mentoring, and education. The fellows are trained and educated in these three matrices. The fellows bridge the gap between medical treatment and research. They see how to apply new technologies and discoveries of biomedical research to patients' treatment.

"Translational researchers are needed. Innovative techniques and technological developments in biomedical science must be translated into the clinical realm to improve medical treatment," says the official statement.

All courses are taught in English. The fellows are appointed at the department/centre of their basic mentor at SUND, where most of the course days take place.

"The lab(s) of the mentor team will host the BRIDGE Fellow during the two-year period of the fellowship and guarantee the necessary running costs to successfully carry out the fellow's research project as well as provide access to support staff, training, equipment and advice from members of the mentors’ institutions," added the official statement.

BRIDGE Fellowships Help In Shaping Future Leaders

The prestigious fellowship offers a unique career opportunity and makes the fellows the pioneering leaders in the translational medicine field. The fellowship helps in acquisition of the knowledge and skills, gaining insights on the translation medicine and translation and back-translation between the discoveries and clinical practices.

Fellows' Testimonials

"The BRIDGE Translational Excellence Postdoctoral Fellowship is already a seal of quality which I do not have to explain to colleagues and networks any longer. Through the educational curriculum, the unique team of co-fellows and work with my project, I have become more independent researcher with strong collaborations, contact to several research communities, and feel more confident as a scientist and potential research leader," said Lærke Gasbjerg, MD, PhD, BRIDGE Fellow 2020-2023.

"The BRIDGE Programme has given me the opportunity to get the best of 3 worlds. Via my mentors, I have established collaboration with others from the university's large analytical facilities, I can access invasive clinical studies from the hospital, and it is backed up with expert knowledge from industry. All of this, while being educated on the newest state-of-the-art methodologies via the course work. My fellow BRIDGE colleagues have expanded my network, and made the journey joyful, despite the huge workload," said Grith Stougaard Højfeldt, MSc, PhD, BRIDGE Fellow 2021-2023.

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