Postdoctoral Training Fellowship Opportunities for Clinicians

Applications are now open for the Wellcome Trust funding scheme that helps the most promising newly qualified MB/PhD graduates make an early start in developing their independent research careers.

The Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Training Fellowships for MB/PhD graduates are aimed at newly qualified MB/PhD graduates or those who have achieved a high-quality PhD during or before starting their medical degree.

Awards last for up to four years and provide salary and research costs. The Fellowships are designed to be flexible and can be tailored to meet individuals' specific research/clinical training needs.

For further information, including application details, see Wellcome Trust website.

New PhD programmes

The Wellcome Trust is looking to support up to four new four-year PhD programmes in the UK and Republic of Ireland. These programmes will give scientists the training and experience needed to drive discovery and translation in research areas inspired by its strategic challenges:

• Maximising the health benefits of genetics and genomics
• Understanding the brain
• Combating infectious disease
• Investigating development, ageing and chronic disease
• Connecting environment, nutrition and health

These new programmes are intended for the support of basic scientists rather than clinicians.

Preliminary submissions should be submitted by 11 May 2010. For more information visit the Wellcome Trust website