wellcomedbt.org Early Career Fellowships For Researchers 2015 : Wellcome Trust/ DBT India Alliance

Organization : The Wellcome Trust/ DBT India Alliance
Fellowship Name : Early Career Fellowships For Researchers In India 2015
Applicable For : PhD Final Year Students
Applicable States : All India
Application Last Date : September 2015

Website : https://www.indiaalliance.org/

Early Career Fellowships For Researchers In India
This scheme provides a unique opportunity for the most promising postdoctoral researchers to carry out research in India. Applicants are expected to identify an important biomedical research question and design a project that would help answer this question. The proposal would also suggest how the proposed work would help develop the applicant’s future independent research program. Submitted proposals are expected to be globally competitive. Applicants may wish to set up long term training or collaborative visits (work outside Host Institution) for up to 24 months. These visits may be to other leading laboratories, anywhere in the world.

What’s included:
The fellowship is for five years, full time and provides:
** Personal Support for the fellow.
** Research expenses (materials and consumables; animals; support to attend scientific meetings; and small items of equipment, e.g. laptop)
** Additional allowances (travel and overseas subsistence) for work outside the Host Institution; these are scientifically justified visits of up to 24 months to an external laboratory either in India or abroad.

Support funds for research staff or large equipments are not typically provided. It is expected that applicants will choose appropriate laboratories/ environments where majority of the necessary equipment and facilities are already available.

The total award for an Early Career Fellowship includes the costs requested by the applicant as well as the set contributions by the India Alliance. For further details, see costing policies. Costs requested by the applicant must commensurate with their research proposal and should be fully justified in the full application. Inadequate justifications may result in costs being revised.

Eligibility:
You must be in the final year of your PhD studies or have no more than four years of postdoctoral research experience from the date of your PhD viva to the full application submission Last Date. Time spent outside the research environment (i.e., career breaks) will be considered but has to be clearly mentioned in the application.

Please note that if the candidates eligible to apply to the Early Career Fellowship scheme hold/are being considered/have a commitment for a faculty position, they are advised to write to the Office with their CV before applying.

You do not have to be an Indian national or of Indian origin. You need not have undertaken your PhD in India.

You must have shown significant promise in your scientific career to date, which includes, but is not limited to; strong academic record, visits to conferences and workshops, and importantly, the vision to develop as an independent researcher.

It is mandatory that applicants carry out their Fellowship project in a laboratory that is not their Thesis laboratory or Thesis environment. If you have compelling reasons to continue in or return to your thesis laboratory, please contact the Office.

Fellowships may not be taken up prior to the completion of a successful PhD viva. The Fellowship must be started within one year of being awarded.

The final year or a majority of the final year of the Fellowship must be spent in host institution in India.

The host Institute in India is responsible for administering the Fellowship. Hence the award has to start in India before the ‘Work outside host Institution’ option can be availed. However, length of the start period may be negotiated between the Fellow and the host Institution.

It is mandatory for the awarded Fellows to be hosted in the Host Institution for the entire duration of the Fellowship (5 years for Early Career Fellowship). Exceptions will not be considered and the applications in which the applicant’s contract with the Host Institution ends before the Fellowship end date will not be processed.

Application process:
To complete a preliminary application use our online system, IASys. Please ensure that the form is submitted by the published Last Date.

Your preliminary application will normally be assessed within one month of the submission Last Date. If successful, you will be invited to submit a full application.

Your full application will be peer reviewed and considered by the appropriate Selection Committee and, if successful, you will be short-listed for interview.

Short-listed candidates will be notified two weeks before the interview date.

Applicants are not permitted to apply to multiple Fellowship schemes within the India Alliance in parallel. Only one application to one scheme will be entertained, at a time.

Last Dates:
This is an annual competition

Current Competition:
Preliminary Application Launch: 1 May 2015
Preliminary application Last Date: 15 June 2015
Invited full application Last Date: September 2015
Selection Committee short-listing: January 2016
Interviews for short-listed candidates: February 2016

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