The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research has just published a call for Postdoctoral Fellowships.
Eligibility requirements for this postdoctoral fellowship are as follows:
- Postdoctoral applicants should have no more than 18 months of postdoctoral research experience at the time of the deadline for submitting applications (February 1).
- PhD. degree must not have been conferred more than 24 months prior to the deadline date (February 1)
- MD. degree should not have been conferred more than three years before deadline date of application (February 1)
- PhD. candidates that do not have their degree at time of application deadline (February 1) are eligible to apply. If awarded, the applicant’s PhD. degree must be conferred prior to the start of the Fellowship.
The appointment will be for three years. Applicants may be citizens of any country, but for foreign nationals awards will be made only for study in the United States.
The basic stipend is $56,000 for the first year, $59,000 for the second year, and $62,000 the third year, with an additional $1000 for each dependent child. An allowance of $2,000 a year toward the cost of the research will be made available to the laboratory sponsoring the fellow. The Fellow will have access to $1,800 for travel to science meetings. In addition to the travel allowance the Fund provides a travel award for the Fellow and their family to travel to the sponsoring laboratory.
Deadline: 1st February each year