• The Trust wishes to invited applications for five year senior research fellowships in biomedical science to be held in Australia, India, New Zealand and South Africa.
• Eligibility: The fellowships are for outstanding researchers, either medically qualified or science graduates, wish to establish a research career in an Australian, Indian, New Zealand, or South African Academic institutions. It is expected that candidates would have between five and ten years’ research experience at a postdoctoral level or equivalent and have substantial record of publications in their chosen area of research in leading international journals. Applicants need not be nationals of the country where they wish to hold their fellowships. However, it is expected that candidates will have spent a minimum period of three years of their postdoctoral (or equivalent) research career working outside their chosen country. Applications will be accepted from those who are currently overseas or who have returned to the country where the following will be held. However, those who wish to work in Australia or New Zealand should not have been back for more than two years (at the closing date for full applications).

The salary offered will be according to age and experience and on appropriate academic scales. The essential costs of the research programmes will also be provided, including research expenses, equipment and research personnel if appropriate. Fellows in South Africa and India will be eligible to apply for project and programme support from the Trust at the end of their fellowships.

• Application Procedure:
• Candidates are required to complete a preliminary application form which can be obtained from the Welcome Trust Office or the Welcome Trust Website. The form should be returned to the Welcome Trust by a date of April. Late submission will not be accepted.
• Shortlisted candidates will be notified in writing and invited to submit a full application in early July. These must be returned to the Welcome Trust by September.
• Those selected for the interviews will be informed in writing in the month of January, the following year and the interviews will take place in March, in the same year.

Enquiries and requests for preliminary application forms may be directed to:

Dr Mary Phillips, International Programme Manager,

The Welcome Trust, 183 Euston Road, London,

NW1 2BE, United Kingdom

E-mail: international@wellcome.ac.uk

URL: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk

Notifications for the programme are published in January.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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