Call for Proposals
TDR Clinical Research and Development Fellowships
Deadline for applications: 28 January 2016, 16:00 (GMT)
This joint call for proposals provides fellowships to early-to-mid-career scientists and clinical
staff in low- and middle-income countries to learn how to conduct clinical trials. Selected
applicants are placed in pharmaceutical companies or product development partnerships for
6-24 months.
Scope
The purpose of this Joint Call for Proposals is to provide funding support to researchers and key members of clinical trial research teams from LMICs to acquire essential skills in clinical research and development through placements in pharmaceutical companies and PDPs. The scheme targets early to mid-career researchers or clinical staff (clinicians, pharmacists, medical statisticians, data managers, other health researchers) who are employed by a legal entity in LMICs where they are currently working on activities in the scope of EDCTP or TDR.
TDR will fund fellows employed by a research institution in any LMIC to be placed in pharmaceutical companies and PDPs either in or outside Europe to train and develop new research skills on infectious diseases including HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, Ebola and NIDs
For TDR, Neglected Infectious Diseases (NIDs) include: dengue/severe dengue; rabies; chagas disease; Human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness); leishmaniases; cysticercosis/taeniasis; dracunculiasis (guinea-worm disease); echinococcosis; foodborne trematodiases; lymphatic filariasis; onchocerciasis (river blindness); schistosomiasis; soil-transmitted helminthiases; buruli
ulcer; leprosy (Hansen disease); trachoma; yaws.
Eligibility
At the deadline for submission of proposals, the fellow should:
be a post-graduate (MSc or PhD) or medical graduate with clinical and/or research
experience in infectious diseases;
have obtained their first degree within 15 years of submission of the application;
have been a researcher or clinical staff member employed for the last 12 months in an
institution with a registered legal entity in LMIC (TDR), conducting clinical research activities in the scope of the EDCTP24 and WHO/TDR programme.
For further details, please see: http://www.who.int/tdr/grants/call-EDCTP_TDR-5.11.pdf?ua=1
