An exchange programme for postdoctoral researchers is launched today to promote international collaboration among scientists funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).

The programme enables postdoctoral researchers working in the laboratory of a Wellcome Trust senior or principal research fellow, a programme grant holder in a UK Wellcome Trust Centre, or an investigator at the Sanger Institute to join the laboratory of an HHMI investigator at an HHMI host university, hospital or research institute in the USA, or of an HHMI group leader or fellow at the Janelia Farm Research Campus, Virginia, USA, to carry out collaborative research for a period of three months to one year.

Likewise, postdoctoral researchers from HHMI laboratories are able to travel to the UK to work in the laboratory of one of these Wellcome Trust-funded researchers.