Training and Careers

Clinician Scientist Fellowship

AllerGen launches call for $125,000 Clinician-Scientist Research Fellowship

This program is aligned with AllerGen’s strategic objectives related to Canadian capacity building, which are to:

Increase research capacity in the field of allergy and clinical immunology.

Foster and enhance academic innovation arising from basic and clinical research for medical students and postgraduate clinical trainees that pursue sub-specialities in allergy and clinical immunology.

Eligible candidates are Canadian health professionals who are completing their A/CI sub-specialty training or have completed such sub-specialty training within the past 18 months and have a posting at an academic health sciences centre. Preference will be given to applicants whose host institution can confirm that the applicant has been identified for a junior faculty position following successful completion of this fellowship.

AllerGen encourages applicants to secure matching funding to a level commensurate with their level of clinical training. The deadline for applications is March 1, 2010. AllerGen is funded through the federal Networks of Centres of Excellence program. The Networks of Centres of Excellence Canada is a joint initiative of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Industry Canada.

For more information please conatct

Melissa Shuker, Program Coordinator

AllerGen NCE Inc.

905-525-9140 x 26633shuker@mcmaster.ca