HHMI Expands Support of Postdoctoral Scientists
Posted on June 17, 2009 Comments (0)
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute provides a huge amount of science and health care related funding. HHMI is expanding existing relationships to fund postdoc scientist fellows at with Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund, the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation, the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, and the Life Sciences Research Foundation. The funding should support 32 additional postdoc scientists. HHMI Expands Support of Postdoctoral Scientists
Fellows will be selected competitively by each organization. Each fellowship will have a three-year term. When the initiative is at full capacity, HHMI will be supporting 96 postdoctoral fellows at an anticipated annual cost of about $5 million. The program began in 2007 when HHMI announced it would fund up to 16 postdoctoral fellows in HHMI labs each year. There is no requirement that future fellows be appointed in HHMI labs.
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Categories: Career, Fellowships, Scholarships, Funding, Research, Science, Universities
Tags: Career, fellowships, Funding, HHMI, scientists
Categories: Career, Fellowships, Scholarships, Funding, Research, Science, Universities
Tags: Career, fellowships, Funding, HHMI, scientists
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