Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) launches its Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowhships.

Object: To attract qualified, promising scientists to receive full time research training and to assist these promising individuals in transitioning from a fellowship to an independent (faculty-level) position.

Eligibility criteria:

- Applicants must have completed some postodoctoral training

- To have a Doctoral degree (PhD, MD, DMD, DVM, or equivalent).

- At the time of activating the award, applicants must not be simultaneously serving an internship or residency.

- The applicant must be sponsored by an investigator who is affiliated full-time with an accredited institution and who agrees to supervise the applicant’s training.

Duration: 3 years

Budget: USD 90.000 per year (salary support for additional staff is not allowable).

Eligible costs:

- Travel to scientific meetings (up to USD 2.000/year)

- Journal subscriptions and books

- Training courses

- Laboratory supplies

- Equipment (in year 1 only)

- Personal computer (in year 1 only and up to USD 2.000)

- Health insurance costs

Additionally, applicant can apply to the Transition Award.

To assist the awardee’s advancement to a faculty position, the advanced postdoctoral fellowship carries an optional transition year in which the awardee may request funding support in their first year as a faculty member of an academic institution. To apply for the transition year, awardees must provide a letter of institutional commitment and faculty appointment along with a satisfactory progress report and abbreviated research plan for the transitional year. The Transition Award can be requested in an amount up to USD 110,000 total costs for 1 year. Indirect costs (excluding equipment) cannot exceed 10 percent. The Transition Award can be requested at any time during the 3-year fellowship period after a faculty appointment has been obtained.

Timeline:

- VHIR's internal deadline: June 20, 2016

- Application deadline: June 27, 2016

- Application notification: January 2017

- Earliest start date: February 2017

Further information: Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowships - JDRF