The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is launching an international competition to select up to 35 early career scientists working at academic institutions in 18 countries including the Czech Republic.
“Science is an international endeavor, and HHMI wants to help develop the next generation of scientific talent worldwide,” said HHMI President Robert Tjian. “We are especially interested in helping scientists through the challenging early years, when they are just starting up their labs and research support is difficult to get.”
The Institute has committed $24 million for the International Early Career Scientist Program
and will award each scientist who is selected a total of $650,000 over five years. The competition
is open to scientists who have trained in the U.S., run their own labs for less than seven years,
and work in one of 18 eligible countries. Those countries are Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China,
Czech Republic, Egypt, Hungary, India, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, South
Korea, Spain, Taiwan, and Turkey. Eligible researchers in these countries are invited to submit
applications.
More information:
http://www.hhmi.org/news/intlearlycareer20101201.html
7 Dec 2010
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