Applications now open for vacation scholarships

15 December 2011

You have until February 2012 to apply for a Biomedical Vacation Scholarship, which provides promising undergraduates with hands-on research experience during the summer vacation with the aim of encouraging them to consider a career in research.

The Wellcome Trust is inviting applications from biomedical and veterinary science departments for undergraduates to work on a biomedical science research project during their summer vacation. Scholarships provide the student with a stipend for up to eight weeks. Research expenses are not provided.

Students should be undergraduates in the middle (i.e. not the first or last) years of their first degree. They should be registered for a basic science, medical, dentistry or veterinary degree at a university within the UK or the Republic of Ireland.

Students are encouraged to arrange their scholarship away from their usual place of study, but projects must be undertaken at a university in the UK or Republic of Ireland. Preference will be given to undergraduates without previous research experience.

Applications must be submitted on behalf of the student by the project supervisor, by 17 February 2012. More information can be found on the Trust's Vacation Scholarship page.

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