Clinical and Public Health Research Fellowships 2019
DBT Wellcome India Alliance – Clinical and Public Health Research Fellowships 2019. Call for Applications: Clinical and Public Health Research Fellowships 2019. Interested candidates can check out all of the details on the scheme, details, application proccedure, important dates and more below:
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The Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance invites applications for three Fellowship schemes: Early Career Fellowships, Intermediate Fellowships, and Senior Fellowships.
Eligibility:
Eligibility limit covers the entire range of Clinical and Public Health Research Fellowship schemes.
- No age or nationality restrictions
- The applicants need to not be resident in India while applying but should be willing to set up an independent research career in India.
- Clinicians and Public health researchers do not require a PhD to apply.
- This competition is open for clinicians and public health researchers with up to 15 years of post-MD/MS/MPH/PhD or equal clinical/public health research experience.
- Applicants are advised to choose the most appropriate scheme suitable for them according to their qualification, research experience, career trajectory, and track record.
- Please refer to the guidance notes, provisions, and mandate of this scheme for assessing your eligibility on the site. The office reserves the right to advise on the suitability of the scheme accordingly.
Early Career Fellowship: For all those candidates who have shown promise to pursue research and wish to further their efforts to build a research career under the supervision of a Fellowship Supervisor. Guidance note: suitable for applicants in the final year MD/MS/MPH/PhD or have around 4 years of relevant experience.
Intermediate Fellowship: For all those candidates that have been successful in building a track record of pursuing cutting edge research and wish to establish their own independent clinical/public health research program in India. Guidance note: suitable for applicants with 4-7 years of pertinent experience.
Senior Fellowship: For all those applicants that have demonstrated their potential to lead an independent research program and want to expand it further to undertake pioneering research. Guidance note: suitable for applicants with 7-15 years of pertinent experience.
Remit: Full spectrum of biomedical science involving clinical and public health research.
Provisions: The 5-year Fellowship support provides:
- Interested clinicians the opportunity to pursue their research goals in combination with their clinical duties
- Competitive personal support
- Generous research support together with the flexibility to accommodate the requirements of public and clinical health research
- Flexibility to ask additional support staff
- Support training cost and research sabbatical
- Funding for International training and travelling
- Opportunity to pursue a PhD on the India Alliance-funded research
Essentials on the application:
- A research proposal that seeks to answer an original biomedical research question
- A not-for-profit Host Institution in India that will administer the Fellowship for the complete duration of the award. A salaried position or commitment to a salaried position in the Host Institution is not required.
- A Sponsor in the Host Institution, that will guarantee resources and space for the duration of this award.
- In the event of an Early Career Fellowship, a Fellowship Supervisor, that will guarantee access to lab space and resources necessary for the project in addition to provide relevant scientific guidance for the tenure of their Fellowship.
Application procedure:
Application forms will be on the India Alliance Online application System (IASys) from 16 January 2019, 9 am IST. The preliminary applications deadline is 13 February 2019, 2 pm IST.
Additional information regarding the remit, provisions and application process is available here.
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