Jenny Landberg became the first Copenhagen Bioscience PhD student to defend her thesis on October 23, 2020 – and we look forward to celebrating more defenses over the coming months. Number of fellowships: 16 students annually for enrollment in September 2021.. The four-year programme is divided into a pre-doctoral year followed by three years of PhD training at one of the four Novo Nordisk Foundation Research Centers embedded at the University of Copenhagen or the Technical University of Denmark: The pre-doctoral year includes short rotation projects, choice of a lab for the long-term (PhD) project, and common research-based courses. Selection criteria: Students will be selected based on: Check our Courses page for links to course descriptions and registration details and deadlines. Please read ”Information and Guidelines for Applicants” carefully before initiating the application process. The last virtual Copenhagen Bioscience Snapshot of 2021 will take place on Dec 2, with Miguel Alcalde and Fan Liu. Hold, or anticipate receiving before enrolment, a university degree from outside of Denmark. For more information about the pre-doctoral year and courses, see the programme website. A version of one of the courses, ‘Introduction to Molecular Bioscience’ is also open to Masters students. The CPH Bioscience PhD programme is designed for international talents to come to Denmark and start their research careers at one of the NNF Research Centers. All complete applications submitted are reviewed by a committee of Group Leaders from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Research Centers. During each rotation project, the student and supervisor are expected to discuss potential long-term project ideas. After completing the three rotation projects, the student makes an agreement with one of their rotation supervisors to join their lab for the long-term (PhD) project. Positions starting September 2020.. First-author publications from CPH Bioscience PhD students so far in 2020 include: Deploying microbial synthesis for halogenating and diversifying medicinal alkaloid scaffolds (Samuel Bradley); Equilibrium between nascent and parental MCM proteins protects replicating genomes (Hana Sedlackova); CRISPR interference of nucleotide biosynthesis improves production of a single-domain antibody in Escherichia coli (Jenny Landberg); Multicopy targeted integration for accelerated development of high-producing Chinese Hamster Ovary cells (Daria Sergeeva); Transcriptomic analysis links diverse hypothalamic cell types to fibroblast growth factor 1-induced sustained diabetes remission (Dylan Rausch), Metabolic modelling as a framework for metabolics data integration and analysis (Svetlana Volkova); How to fix DNA-protein crosslinks (Ulrike Kühbacher); An autoinducible trp-T7 expression system for production of proteins and biochemicals in Escherichia coli (Jenny Landberg); An expanded CRISPRi toolbox for tunable control of gene expression in Pseudomonas putida (Ekaterina Kozaeva); Trust is good, control is better: technical considerations in blood microbiome analysis (Camila Alvarez-Silva); and Genome-wide CRISPRi-based identification of targets for decoupling growth from production (Jenny Landberg). Funding for the following three years is awarded conditionally, to be approved following a successful qualifying assessment at the end of the first (pre-doctoral) year. The Copenhagen Bioscience PhD programme is an initiative from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, offering motivated international students funding to join a four-year rotation PhD programme at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Research Centers in Greater Copenhagen.