Training future doctors and researchers and continued training of doctors and healthcare personnel is a priority at Institut Imagine. This training mission conducting and learning how to conduct research has distinguished itself through strategic work programs at Institut Imagine, aiming to attract new talents and develop training to serve the needs of research and care.
This training plan has objectives to implement and develop doctoral training, the involvement of hospital doctors in research programs led by the Institute, the doctoral training of foreign students, and the training of bioentrepreneurs.
In 2024, 24% of Institut Imagine members were students, PhD candidates or post-docs. Institut Imagine cares to welcome young researchers and future doctors and helps them to improve their skills in the best conditions.
Discover the training programs conducting and learning how to conduct research:
M2-MD program
This program enables medical or pharmacy residents to complete a Master’s degree (M2) in science, including a research internship within a laboratory of IHU Imagine. Learn more about the program.
Health-Science program (MD-PhD, VetD-PhD, PharmD-PhD):
It allows young doctors, pharmacists, veterinarians that have already obtained a Master 2 in research to complete their training in research by doing a PhD in science under the supervision of a researcher in an Imagine Institute lab. Learn more about the program.
Time for research:
It brings together clinicians of clinical or fundamental research developed at Image by giving them a “time for research”, during which their work is delegated to another doctor so they can carry out their research projects. Learn more about the program.
PPU-Pasteur Paris University program:
It recruits PhD students having obtained a Master 2 of research abroad, in the research labs of Imagine. Learn more about the international programs within Imagine.
4th year PhD:
Short-term funding (so-called 4th-year funding) to allow PhD candidates to complete and defend their thesis.
This program is intended for Imagine doctoral students. Learn more about the program.
Imagine Thesis Award:
An Imagine thesis award designed to support a PhD candidate who has defended their thesis within the standard 3-year timeframe and whose work has been published or is under publication.
This program is intended for Imagine doctoral students. Learn more about the program.
Imagine Bioentrepreneurs Launchpad:
The program to train entrepreneurs and accelerate healthtech startup projects with a high impact for patients. It associate teams of students of different profiles: scientists, doctors, pharmacists, engineers and managers. The programs relies on close to the field and project-based education. After a matching phase (from September to December), for which the objective is to connect students of partner trainings among themselves as well as with researchers or doctors offering biomedical research programs, the program is in the form of a bootcamp lasting 9 to 12 weeks (from January), where teams of students work full time on their projects, while benefiting from the intervention of specialists and personalized coaching. Learn more about the program.