ATLAS - Talent Academy for TransLAtional Science

Projects offered

ATLAS CALL 2026

We are looking for a highly motivated candidate with a strong interest in bioinformatics to join the ATLAS PhD Program. The successful candidate will be based at TRON in Mainz and will become part of the vibrant scientific community at BioNTech and TRON. For details on the PhD project, please see the project description below.

The call for applications will be open until 11th October 2026. For more information regarding the application as well as the selection process, please visit the pages: How to apply? and Evaluation and selection.

Please note: Start of the PhD project in the 2026 call will be in the beginning of 2027 at the earliest. The final selection of PhD candidates will take place during an onsite interview event in December 2026.

Project number Title of the project Unit/Location
Project 1 NeoLand - Decoding the dynamic neoantigen landscape by incorporating translation variants TRON: Bioinformatics (Mainz, Germany)

Previous ATLAS CALLS

Please check out the PhD projects from our previous calls to get an idea of the program’s research focus.