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SciLifeLab PULSE: Program for Future Leaders in Life Science

SciLifeLab PULSE is a comprehensive Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Cofund postdoctoral program, that will train 48 future leaders in life sciences. PULSE focuses on innovative, fundamental and translational research carried out in supportive and diverse academic and industrial environments, preparing postdocs with necessary skills for long-term career sustainability.

News

2026-06-09: The SciLifeLab PULSE National Steering Committee select Cohort 2 postdocs

2026-06-08: Early-career training in focus: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions today and beyond

2026-05-21: Science Communication: SciLifeLab PULSE Future Leaders’ Perspective

2026-01-19: PULSE postdoc program advances training through academic and industry secondments

2025-09-22: SciLifeLab’s first PULSE postdoc cohort – research in action

About the program

  • Summary
  • Research areas
  • Recruited postdocs
  • Key functions and constellations
  • Employment conditions for postdocs
  • Ethics issues and aspects
  • FAIR, Open Science & Green charter
  • Access to cutting edge research infrastructure
  • Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
  • Additional information

Recruited postdocs

  • Recruited postdocs
  • Statistics from the calls

Training

  • Program design
  • Personal career development plan
  • Organization of training
  • Secondments and other training options
  • Online seminars
  • Detailed information about ongoing training within the program

Partners

  • Implementing partners
  • Associated partners
  • Key research facilities, infrastructure and equipment at the partner organizations
  • Additional information

Guidelines and support

  • For applicants
  • For principal investigators
  • For evaluators
  • For secondment hosts
  • For HRs & Financial Officers
  • Communication & support material
  • Timeline
  • SciLifeLab Code of Conduct

FAQ and Contacts

  • FAQ
  • Contacts

N.B. Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

Last updated: 2026-06-25

Content Responsible: Disa Hammarlöf(disa.l.hammarlof@scilifelab.se)