HHMI Announces 2012 International Student Research Fellows

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase, Maryland, has announced its 2012 class of International Student Research Fellows.

Fifty pre-doctoral candidates from nineteen countries, six of which — Australia, Bulgaria, Chile, Italy, Latvia, and Switzerland — were not represented last year, each will receive $43,000 a year for the next three years and be mentored by senior scientists at their respective institutions. The fellowship program, which launched in 2011, supports international students during their third to fifth years of graduate school in the United States, a period, say young scholars, when it is difficult to secure support for their studies.

The program builds on HHMI's longstanding commitment to funding international scientists. Earlier this year, the institute handed out International Early Career Scientists awards of $650,000 each to twenty-eight U.S.-trained scholars to establish independent research programs in twelve countries where funding for scientific pursuits is scarce.

"We are pleased to be able to support some of the world's most outstanding graduate students in the biomedical sciences," said William R. Galey, program director for HHMI's graduate and medical education programs. "These students have been accepted to prestigious graduate programs in the United States and have demonstrated to the faculty of those programs that they have exceptional talent. We see these students as having the potential to become scientific leaders throughout the world once they have completed their training."

“HHMI Awards 50 International Predoctoral Fellowships.” Howard Hughes Medical Institute Press Release 7/25/12.

Primary Subject: Higher Education
Secondary Subject(s): Science/Technology
Location(s): Chevy Chase, Maryland

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