When she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2005, she realised she was joining a "very exclusive club" – women make up only six per cent of the Fellowship – and decided to find ways to encourage other women to follow suit.
Valued at approximately CA$60,000 per year, the JSPS fellowship is considerably more generous than the average postdoc salary in Canada is, even when you factor in one round-trip air ticket to Japan and relocation costs.
This work was supported by Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro (biennial fellowship "Isabella Adonio Curcio"), Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro (AIRC, project n. 12849/2012), AIRC project Calabria 2011 (http://www.airc.it/) and Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Calabria e Lucania.
Fodanzione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro fellowship (to A.B).; Fondazione Veronesi (A.R.C).
When he started his post-doctoral fellowship, it was $2 per base pair to print DNA.
[My Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) industrial postdoc fellowship is worth C$30,000 per year for up to 2 years.] The most recent figures indicate that the average annual salary of postdocs with my fellowship is approximately C$44,000 plus other fringe benefits.
Concordia offers a fellowship package of $20,000 per year by means of a combination of departmental teaching and research assistantships and grants from external agencies.
F.E. was a recipient of a fellowship from Fondazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro (FIRC).
The authors are funded by Breakthrough Breast Cancer (to CMI) and by the Fondazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro (AIRC/FIRC Fellowship to AM).
Consequently, the estimated total cost per student taking into account the fellowship award, institutional support, workshop and other administrative costs is US $25,000.
