Lady Tata Memorial Trust Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2016

What is Lady Tata Memorial Trust Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2016?

The Post-Doctoral Fellowship is tenable in the first instance for a period of one year commencing from August each year. It is renewable for a further period of one year based on the first year progress report. The tenure of the Fellowship is not extendable beyond two years.

The applicant must have a Ph.D. in Science or an M.D./M.S./M.D.S. degree with two years’ research experience and should strictly have first class academics (60% and above) from Class X up to date.

The value of the Fellowship is Rs.36,000/- per month + HRA (as applicable) & annual contingency.

Who can apply for this scholarship ?

1. The Post Doctoral Fellowship is offered to a Ph.D. in Science or to an M.D./M.S./MDS degree holder with two years’ research experience
2. Age must be 35 or less than 35 years

How can you apply ?

A money order of Rs 100/- being processing fee (non-Refundable) per application should be forwarded in favour of the Lady Tata Memorial trust and the original Postal Receipt of the same should be scanned and submitted with the Online application form. Any application received without the scanned money order receipt, or forwarded through any other mode of payment, will be rejected without further correspondance with the applicant.

The Address for correspondance will be:
Bombay House
2nd Floor,
24 Homi Mody Street,
Fort, Mumbai
400001

Terms and Conditions

Applications are invited from Indian nationals, from select Universities / Institutes / Laboratories, and strictly with first class academics (60% and above) from Class X up to date for the award of Post-Doctoral Fellowship (two year award term) for the year 2016-2017 for scientific investigations having a bearing directly or indirectly on the alleviation of human suffering from disease. 

General Rules and Regulations-
Subject selected for research work must have a bearing directly or indirectly on the alleviation of human suffering from disease.

(a) Selected fellows must undertake to work whole time and will be debarred from private practice or taking up any other occupation or accepting any other fellowship award or post of any description during the tenure of the fellowship award of the Trust. The fellow will also not be allowed, except for very exceptional reasons, at the sole discretion of the Trust, to abandon the research work in the middle of the academic year as this defeats the very purpose for which the Trust awards fellowships. The applicant must give an undertaking to this effect in the application letter.

(b) A selected fellow, if after having accepted our Award, abandons the research work before completing it or relinquishes the fellowship in the middle of an academic year on the ground that he / she has been offered an award of a higher value by another funding agency / organisation, or has secured alternate employment, he / she will be called upon to refund the entire fellowship amount, inclusive of house rent allowance / contingency expenditure and the concerned university / institute will not be considered for the Trust awards for the next two academic years.  A Bond will have to be executed to this effect by the selected fellow, and countersigned by the concerned guide at the time of accepting our fellowship award. 

(c) Applicant must pay particular attention to the above requirements as sought in the online submission. As complete information as possible should be given regarding the proposed research under the various heads indicated in the submission and also full reference must be given as sought. The problem must be carefully selected and isolated so that it can be adequately dealt with during the period of the fellowship.  The scientific information so presented will help to determine whether or not the applicant should be called for an interview.

(d) In giving the particulars of published papers and articles, the applicant should state references by numbers. In the list of references at the end of the text, full references should be given corresponding to the number quoted in the text as follows :
i)    Give names of all the authors when six or less, if seven or more,
       give only the first three and add et al.
ii)    Full title of the paper.
ii)   Name of the Journal from which the reference is quoted.
iv)   Year of publication.
v)    Volume, and
vi)   Page numbers (first and last).  

Important documents

PDF-APPLICATIONLETTER-3267.doc

PDF-INFORMATIONSHEET-3272.doc

Important Links

• Original website
• Apply online link