Indo-US Research career transition award programme (Khorana-Nirenberg Scholars) invites applications from Indian nationals holding MD or Ph.D degrees awarded since 2005 for grant of scholarship.

The department of Biotechnology (DBT), M/o Science and Technology, govt of India signed a letter of intent with national institutes of health to develop an Indo-US research career transition award programme (Khorana-Nirenberg scholars) to foster collaborative biomedical research and training

The goal of this joint programme is to establish long-term career paths for Indian scientists of exceptional ability and with strong potential for leadership in their field

The program has two phases, a period of post-doctoral training (2-3 years) at NIH followed by a research or faculty position (2-3 years) funded by DBT at one of India’s centers of scientific research

The nodal agencies to implement the programme are the department of biotechnology (DBT), govt of India and the HHS national institutes of health (NIH), USA

The programme invites applications from Indian nationals holding MD or Ph.D degrees awarded since 2005

Up to four Khorana-Nirenberg scholars will be selected for this highly competitive programme

Please email applications by 30th November, 2010 to Dr TS Rao at knsp.dbt@gmail.com

NIH contact for information only sohrabys@nei.nih.gov

Application format and details about the programme are available on the DBT website at:- http://dbtindia.nic.in/index.asp
and on the NIH website at:-
http://www.nei.nih.gov/jobs/nih_dbt.asp