Wellcome Trust – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS

This programme provides four years’ support for recently qualified postdoctoral researchers to gain experience of research at the interfaces between biology/medicine and mathematics, engineering, computer, physical or chemical sciences.

You should propose to tackle an important biomedical research question using an interdisciplinary approach in the best laboratories, first at MIT (for two to three years) and then in the UK (for two to one years respectively).

You will be a UK/EEA national (or have a relevant UK/EEA connection) with a strong background in a suitable scientific field and should be about to submit your doctoral thesis or have no more than three years’ postdoctoral experience.

Deadline for submission of a full application is 7 June 2010.

Further information and application