Universidad de Navarra is hiring a full-time predoctoral researcher

Renal multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a promising non-invasive

technique that can be employed to assess several biomarkers, directly related to renal

physiology and pathophysiology. However, the use of renal MRI in clinical trials and

clinical practice has been hampered by current methodological differences across

centers and the lack of standardized acquisition protocol and analysis methods. In

addition, normative values are not available and clinical data supporting the validity and

utility of the renal MRI biomarkers is needed.

This project aims at developing and implementing standardize renal MRI protocols, and

evaluating these protocols in healthy volunteers and CKD patients, to obtain normal

ranges for the MRI parameters, measure their reproducibility and assess their clinical

validity. The project is part of a recently funded European grant that involves research

partners in five different European countries.

The PhD candidate will work in the Biomedical Imaging Laboratory at the Clínica

Universidad de Navarra (located in Pamplona, Spain). The laboratory is composed of a

group of biomedical engineers collaborating closely with radiologists and clinicians from

several departments, including neurology, psychiatry, and nephrology, working on

translational research projects, developing advanced MRI techniques and evaluating

their use for disease diagnosis and characterization.

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