Fellows may not carry out their fellowship in the country where they normally pursue their doctoral studies. The fellow must be pursuing studies for a PhD-level degree in a subject area similar to that of the Marie Curie Training Site. The stay must be directly relevent to the studies pursued. The stay at the Marie Curie training site must be recognised as an integral part of the studiesas confirmed in writing by the supervisor of the doctoral studies in the home university. At the time of selection, the fellow must be 35 years old or less.
Allowance is made for childcare and for compulsory military or civil service.
The successful applicants will probably have completed at least one year's doctoral research in their home institution and have a track record of excellence in their academic career. It is responsible, with its international collaborators, for the major databases of nucleic acid and protein sequences and protein structures and is a major site for research in the field of bioinformatics. It has particularly close contacts with European industry. Access to the supercomputing facilities in the University of Cambridge is available. Although these databases are all available elsewhere, there are few sites in the world where all are so immediately accessible.