Young Investigator Award – 2017 @ THSTI | Rs. 75,000/- p.m. Emoluments
TRANSLATIONAL HEALTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE
(An Autonomous Institute of the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India)
NCR Biotech Science Cluster, 3rd Milestone, Faridabad – Gurugram Expressway, P.O. Box No. 04, Faridabad – 121001
Rolling Recruitment Notice No. THS/RN/19/2017
YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD-MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH
Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI) invites applications for the Young investigator award in the Maternal and Child Health area.
The award will nurture young investigators who have a strong aptitude towards research and a desire to grow into independent principal investigators. The awardees will be expected to generate new hypothesis driven innovative research ideas in the area of maternal and child health and learn to drive a research process. The mandate will be to bridge epidemiology and biomedical research to develop robust interventions and solutions for maternal and child health. Extensive opportunities will be provided to learn data management, clinical research methodology and lab research methods. There will be mentoring by domain experts.
Over the course of the award period, the awardees will be engaged in the development and implementation of a research proposal in the maternal and child health area
. For this purpose, mentorship will be provided by the faculty of THSTI in collaboration with the Pediatric Biology Centre. Opportunity to pursue PhD in the maternal and child health area will be provided for the awardees.THSTI has established long standing collaborations with the nearby district hospital at Gurugram and effective inter-institutional alliances with other medical, engineering, biology centers across the country & overseas. The research process initiated by the awardee will be facilitated through these collaborations.
Ideas generated by the awardees that crystalize into specific projects will be credited in the form of some funding support, publications and other credits as decided by the institution.
Applications are invited from candidates interested in maternal and child health and holding any one of the following :
1. MBBS with MPH or PhD
2. MPH
3. MD
4. PhD in life sciences
The award is for a period of three years with emolument of INR 75,000 per month. The award will be primarily co-ordinated by the Pediatric Biology Centre of THSTI.
How to Apply:
Applicants should send a cover letter, their recent Bio-Data (including email and contact number) to the Head Administration at Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, 3rd Milestone, Faridabad-Gurgaon Expressway, Faridabad-121001, super-scribing on the cover “Application for the post of Young Investigator Award-Maternal and Child Health”.
The shortlisted candidates will be invited for an interview/interaction session. The awardees will be selected based on their academic and interview performance.
Call for applications will remain open till suitable candidates are found.
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