Arts-Researcher/ PhD Candidate Medical Oncology Biliary Tract Cancer/Pancreatic Cancer

We are looking for an enthusiastic, flexible, and motivated PhD candidate in the field of new targeted treatment methods for biliary tract cancer and pancreatic cancer. These are the most serious forms of cancer, but new targeted treatments offer improvement in treatment.

For biliary tract cancer, an international project was recently started with the participation of many countries (France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Canada, England, Belgium). You will provide the coordination for this study in the 4 involved Dutch hospitals. The research is aimed at whether patients who can be operated on benefit from an additional targeted treatment if they have a mutation in their tumor DNA. For the Netherlands, this is funded by Alpe d'Huzes. Additionally, new targeted medicines targeting KRAS mutations are arriving for pancreatic cancer. In this position, you will set up projects to better understand and predict the effect and side effects.

Your work is very varied. It concerns a clinical study where you have patient contact, but in addition, you will also set up translational research. You also have international collaboration and close collaboration with surgery and oncology. Within the Netherlands, there is a centralization for both biliary tract cancer and pancreatic cancer in which the hospitals work together intensively.