To be eligible, a fellow must either come from or go to a member country.
Eligible participants included Fellows and Junior Fellows of the College.
Although both postdocs and medical fellows are eligible for the subsidy, the salary guidelines were based on the lower of the two pay scales--that of NRSA postdocs.
The thinking behind HFSP's Career Development Award ( CDA) is similar, although unlike the EC's grant, which can be awarded to anybody, only former HFSP long-term fellows are eligible for the CDA.
The fellows would be eligible for a $5,000-a-year stipend toward graduate school, once they had completed their two-year teaching stint.
Medical, radiation, and (after March 2008) gynecological oncologists (including both staff physicians and clinical fellows) were deemed eligible if they saw patients at one of the participating sites and were in clinical practice at least 20% time (i.e., at least 1 full day per week).
At one center, patients referred to any of the participating surgeons are seen in a clinic that is run by the fellows to determine eligibility, and if eligible, to describe the study including the study design.
In order to be eligible for support, the returning fellow should have completed a research period of at least 6 months in a NATO country.
Because HFSP wants to see these young researchers have a chance to establish independent laboratories, the fellows are then solely eligible for career development awards.
Tass also reported that Olga Zabelinskaya, who won cycling bronze medals in the road race and time trial at London 2012, is now eligible to compete, as is her fellow cyclist Sergei Shilov.
