American adventure

10 December 2008

We have teamed up with two major institutions in the USA to offer postdoctoral researchers and PhD students the chance to undertake international collaborative research projects across the Atlantic.

The Wellcome Trust and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Exchange Programme has been introduced to promote international collaborations among scientists funded by the Trust or the HHMI. These awards give opportunities for postdoctoral researchers in some key Trust and HHMI labs to carry out collaborative research for periods from three months to one year. Applications can be made at any time and decisions will normally be made within six weeks of receipt.

Wellcome Trust and National Institutes of Health (NIH) Four-year PhD Studentships allow the most promising postgraduate students to undertake international, collaborative four-year PhD training based in both an academic institution in the UK/Republic of Ireland and the intramural campus of the NIH at Bethesda, USA. Applications have closed for this year.