It will create opportunities for approximately 25 to 30 leading scholars and professionals from the United States and abroad to engage in international collaboration of the highest quality on a topic of global significance from a multidisciplinary perspective. Leading scholars and professionals from a wide range of disciplines including, but not limited to, public health, law, philosophy, sociology, political science, anthropology, geography, ecology, economy and management, and medicine and nursing are invited to apply. Applications are due by June 15, 2001. Applications may be on basic science aspects or more clinical and applied areas. Bacterial, fungal, viral, and other subject areas within chemotherapy may also be addressed.
Research grants are for research on a specific, focused topic.
Grants are awarded for up to 120,000 over three years. Completed applications must be received no later than July 31 or November 15, 2001. The Wellcome Trust offers grant schemes to encourage serious academic study in the history of medicine. Grants are awarded for research and study in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, or the Netherlands, normally within an academic department of a university or at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. Program grants provide support for up to five years for extensive or long-term research in the history of medicine.