Fellowship Awards - Childs (Jane Coffin) Memorial Fund

Deadline Date: 
February, 2018

Eligibility requirements for this postdoctoral fellowship are as follows:

  • Postdoctoral applicants should have no more than one year of postdoctoral research experience at the time of the deadline for submitting applications (February 1).
  • PhD. degree must not have been conferred more than 18 months prior to the deadline date (February 1)
  • MD. degree should not have been conferred more than three years before deadline date of application (February 1)
  • PhD. candidates that do not have their degree at time of application deadline (February 1) are eligible to apply. If awarded, the applicant’s PhD. degree must be conferred prior to the start of the Fellowship.

The appointment will be for three years. The Fund recognizes that in some instances there may be valid reasons for changing both laboratory and sponsor during the course of your fellowship. Such changes require the permission of the Director with the advice of the Board of Scientific Advisers.

Applicants may be citizens of any country, but for foreign nationals awards will be made only for study in the United States. American citizens may hold a fellowship either in the United States or in a foreign country.

For more information, please visit: http://www.jccfund.org/fellowship-information/