With so many different bodies offering funding, how are young scientists to know which stipend, grant, and fellowship opportunities are right for them?
The PreDIVA trial was supported by: the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports (grant number 50-50110-98-020), the innovationonds Zorgverzekeraars (innovation fund of collaborative health insurances, grant number 05-234), and ZonMw (a Dutch non-profit research organisation, project grant number 62000015 and Agiko stipend grant number 92003563).
Fellows can have a Ph.D., M.D., M.Tech, M.VSc, or equivalent degree, and are given a stipend, grants, and even a housing allowance.
KJH was financially supported by a Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg stipend granted by the State of Lower Saxony, Germany.
J.K. received a stipend granted from the Medical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg, and lecture honoraria as well as financial support for conference attendance from Pfizer.
Many postdocs at the Whitehead Institute were paid on an experience-based scale that was set according to the stipend awards granted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to postdocs through its National Research Service Awards.
Based on these results, potential models for sustainability and replication are suggested, including establishment of formal collaborations between sustained GK 12 programs and universities interested in starting in-classroom programs; development of a new Teaching Experience for Fellows program; and integration of supplemental fellow stipends into grant broader-impact sections.
The catalog of scholarships, stipends, and grants available to Ph.D. candidates, postdocs, 'habilitands,' and young scientists for conducting independent research projects is quite attractive and should be inviting a variety of proposals.
Although the catalog of scholarships, stipends, and grants available to young scientists for conducting independent research projects is actually quite attractive, there are challenges ahead for today's marine science community that could potentially prevent the top research results suggested by and to be expected from the current funding opportunities from being fully realized in Germany.
On the bright side, total funding for postdocs, both stipend fellows and grant employees, rises 4.9%, but the number of NSF-supported postdocs is simultaneously slated to fall slightly, from an estimated 6240 in 2004 to an estimated 6080 in 2005.
Besides the annual stipend, Ebbers was granted easy terms on a $408 million loan.
