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Hamilton, ON (April 9, 2010) – AllerGen NCE Inc., the Allergy, Genes and Environment Network (AllerGen), a national research network, is pleased to announce the launch of a national competition for an Emerging Clinician-Scientist Research Fellowship valued at $250,000 over two years. The goal of the AllerGen Emerging Clinician-Scientist Research Fellowship is to enable Canadian Clinical Immunologists and Allergists to pursue allergy, asthma and/or anaphylaxis academic research training immediately following their Clinical Immunology and Allergy sub-specialty training in order to:

Strengthen the academic capacity of Canadian Clinical Immunology and Allergy sub-specialists
Increase Canadian capacity for translational Clinical Immunology and Allergy research
Facilitate enhanced patient care through excellence in basic and clinical Allergy and related immune disease research.

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

Increase research capacity in the field of Clinical Immunology and Allergy
Foster and enhance academic innovation arising from basic and clinical research for medical students and postgraduate clinical trainees that pursue sub-specialties in allergy and clinical immunology, and
Increase the number of medical students that pursue the Clinical Immunology and Allergy sub-specialty and undertake related basic and/or clinical research.

Eligible candidates are Canadian citizens or permanent residents who are clinicians that have completed Clinical Immunology and Allergy sub-specialty training within the past 18 months 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 the fellowship.

Full applications must be either hand-delivered or courier stamped no later than Friday, October 1, 2010 by 12:00 p.m. EST.