S.M.R received a master's fellowship from Conselho Nacional de Pesquisas Científicas e Tecnológicas (CNPq) (133621/2007-3) and S.S.G. received a postdoctoral fellowship from Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) (PNPD 2312/2011).
DCM was awarded a master's fellowship by FAPESP.
Research supported by a master graduate fellowship from CAPES to J.C.P. and CNPq #472093/2010-0 granto to M.F.C.
MMM and RRMB were awarded doctoral fellowships by CAPES and FAPESP, respectively; ACPG and PCS were awarded master's fellowships by CNPq and CAPES, respectively; and TZ is an undergraduate student awarded a Scientific Initiation scholarship by FAPESP.
In addition, 24 masters research fellowships have been sponsored (Table 2), 7 of which are pursued online.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/10/366/prepub Thistudydy was funded by the Wellcome Trust as a Health Consequences of Population Change Programme Master's level fellowship for A.T. Jotheeshwaran (GR081343).
GEM is currently developing a fellowship for master's level students in science, according to Hayden.
A minimum 2.8 grade point average (GPA) on a 4.0 scale is required for the master's in engineering fellowship, but in 2004, 60 of the 90 award recipients (out of 350 applicants) had a 3.3 GPA or higher.
LGN and EMCM were supported respectively by a CAPES master and CAPES doctoral fellowships; DG has been awarded individual research fellowships from CNPq.
