Cancer - UICC ACS International Fellowships for Beginning Investigators 2015 ($ 50,000)

The Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) invites applications for the American Cancer Society (ACS) International Fellowships for Beginning Investigators. The application closing date is November 1, 2014. Fellowships emphasize the transfer of knowledge from a host institute to the applicant and others at the fellow's home institute. The value of fellowships is US $ 50,000 each for travel and stipend. The duration of the fellowship is twelve months.

Fellowships can be extended up to 12 months with funding secured by the fellow from other sources and at no cost to the UICC. Fellows will be offered the opportunity to be mentored by experts in the chosen field, receive hands on experience in population, behavioural, clinical or basic research, intellectual stimulation, research guidance, narrative transfer and many other opportunities to evolve scientifically and academically.

Preference will be given to research investigators, clinician scientists, epidemiologists and public health professionals whose project potentially benefits low- and middle-income countries (as defined by the World Bank). Applicants must be a beginning investigator or clinician in the early stages of their independent investigator career and must possess a terminal, advanced degree.