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).
