This scheme offers opportunities for postdoctoral scientists to undertake research at the interfaces between biology/medicine and mathematics, engineering, computer, physical or chemical sciences, firstly at MIT and then at a UK institution.
Candidates will be expected to identify an important biomedical research question and to propose a personal interdisciplinary training programme to achieve their research aims.
The aim is to support those who will train in a new research area that is complementary to, but distinct from, their current field of expertise, to enable an interdisciplinary approach to their research question - e.g. you might be a physicist wanting to work on a biology-based programme, or a biologist wanting to undertake a bio-engineering project.
The fellowship is for four years full-time, with the fellow based at MIT for two to three years (Phase 1) before returning to a host institution in the UK for the remainder of the award (Phase 2). Applicants are not expected to have made definitive arrangements for their return to the UK at the time of their initial application; the Trust acknowledges that any current plan may well be subject to change.
Click here to find out what's included.
Eligibility
These awards are open to individuals with a relevant connection to the European Economic Area.
If you have ever trained or worked in an academic or research institution in the United States, you are not eligible to apply to this scheme.
You should be about to submit your doctoral thesis or have up to, but no more than, three years’ postdoctoral experience from date of your PhD viva to 7 June 2010 (the deadline for applications to the scheme).
You must complete and submit an application using our web-based application system, eGrants.
Enquiries may be emailed to wt-mit@wellcome.ac.uk or by telephone to the Grants Management Helpdesk: +44 (0)20 7611 2020.
Dr Phyllis Quinn
Grants Management
Wellcome Trust
Gibbs Building
215 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE
T +44 (0)20 7611 7284
Please click the following link for detailed info:
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Biomedical-science/Grants/Fellowships-and-personal-awards/International-fellowships/WTX054661.htm
Candidates will be expected to identify an important biomedical research question and to propose a personal interdisciplinary training programme to achieve their research aims.
The aim is to support those who will train in a new research area that is complementary to, but distinct from, their current field of expertise, to enable an interdisciplinary approach to their research question - e.g. you might be a physicist wanting to work on a biology-based programme, or a biologist wanting to undertake a bio-engineering project.
The fellowship is for four years full-time, with the fellow based at MIT for two to three years (Phase 1) before returning to a host institution in the UK for the remainder of the award (Phase 2). Applicants are not expected to have made definitive arrangements for their return to the UK at the time of their initial application; the Trust acknowledges that any current plan may well be subject to change.
Click here to find out what's included.
Eligibility
These awards are open to individuals with a relevant connection to the European Economic Area.
If you have ever trained or worked in an academic or research institution in the United States, you are not eligible to apply to this scheme.
You should be about to submit your doctoral thesis or have up to, but no more than, three years’ postdoctoral experience from date of your PhD viva to 7 June 2010 (the deadline for applications to the scheme).
You must complete and submit an application using our web-based application system, eGrants.
Enquiries may be emailed to wt-mit@wellcome.ac.uk or by telephone to the Grants Management Helpdesk: +44 (0)20 7611 2020.
Dr Phyllis Quinn
Grants Management
Wellcome Trust
Gibbs Building
215 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE
T +44 (0)20 7611 7284
Please click the following link for detailed info:
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Biomedical-science/Grants/Fellowships-and-personal-awards/International-fellowships/WTX054661.htm
