Awards are usually for three years and are tenable in a UK university. Interviews will be held in February 1999. The candidate must have recently completed PhD training or held a research fellowship in the UK or Republic of Ireland. Research proposals should address issues of health and disease that are of regional significance in the country concerned. All applicants must hold a full-time established post in an appropriate university or research institute in a developing country.
Awards are tenable for a maximum period of three years.
The Trust will provide funds for research and equipment within the applicant's home institution, some assistance towards research costs in the UK and funds for exchange visits. This is the second round of Wellcome International Prize Travelling Research Fellowships, to be taken up in 1999. These fellowships are intended to provide further research experience for postdocs in leading laboratories overseas. Fellowships will be awarded for a 3 years, with 2 years spent in a host country and a third in an appropriate lab in either the UK or the Eire. Research proposals may be in any branch of the natural or clinical sciences which has a bearing on human or veterinary medicine, with the exception of cancer.