They are geographically loose yet an extremely tight-knit group of individuals, held together by the fabric of social networking, constant couch surfing, and a slew of global networks, associations, fellowships, institutes, and incubators.
But V. Sundararamaiah, ISRO's scientific secretary, says the agency hopes to create a dozen or so junior research fellowships at select institutes and universities to serve the needs of its planetary exploration program.
The nongovernmental System for Analysis, Research and Training (START) program works in developing countries in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific to help environmental scientists build interdisciplinary and translational research skills through fellowships, workshops, and training institutes.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2407/14/415/prepub The authors thank Dr. Eric Seidlitz for proof-reading the manuscript, the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation (CBCF) for providing fellowship funding, and Canada Institutes for Health Research CIHRR) for funding the research.
In addition to the fellowship program, the institute runs programs in public schools and a summer program in Aspen.
If you are interested in applying for a position or fellowship at the institute or would like to take part in a summer school, please contact Professor Hall.
She continued her focus on wildlife conservation for her post-doc fellowship at the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research.
NC received a Canadian Institutes for Health Research CIHRR) Fellowship in Knowledge Translation.
Initially the fellowship programme included two residential sessions in the USA, but FAIMER has established six equivalent fellowship programmes hosted by regional institutes in three world regions: Asia India and China, South America Brazilzil) and sub-Saharan Africa South AfricaAfrica South Africa
The institute will also grant fellowships to lawyers for summer study at the International Human Rights Law program at Oxford University.
He suggests "a way to promote basic and translational research at the same time, is to have Ph.D. or postdoctoral fellowships that require collaboration between a basic research institute, a clinical institute, and industry".
