Meet the 2013 Class
Estefania Bello, Ph.D.
Columbia University
Department of Neuroscience
Carlos Blondel, Ph.D.
Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Department of Medicine
Marco Contreras, Ph.D.
University of Arizona
Department of Psychology
Diego Fernandez, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University
Department of Biology
Andres Herrada, Ph.D.
St Jude Children's Research Hospital
Department of Immunology
Sofia Ocaña, Ph.D.
Ohio University
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Diana Posadas, Ph.D.
Northwestern University
Department of Molecular Biosciences
Sabrina Sanchez, Ph.D.
University of Southern California
Department of Molecular and Computational Biology
Paulo José Teixeira, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC)
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
V. Julian Valdes, Ph.D.
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Department of developmental and regenerative biology
The Pew Latin American Fellows Program in the Biomedical Sciences provides support for young scientists from Latin America to receive postdoctoral training in the United States. The program gives these individuals an opportunity to further their scientific knowledge by promoting exchange and collaboration between investigators in the United States and Latin America resulting in advances in research in Latin America.
Read the announcement of the 2013 Latin American Fellows in the Biomedical Sciences.
The Pew fellowship provides a $30,000 salary stipend in each of two years and an additional $35,000 payment when the fellow confirms plans to return to Latin America. The Pew salary support is for 24 months; however, if the sponsor is able and willing to provide continued salary and benefits for the fellow beyond the two years, a request may be made to Pew to extend the time period of the fellowship up to a maximum of 36 additional months. The $35,000 portion of the award is for the purchase of supplies and equipment to help establish his/her independent laboratory upon the fellow's return to Latin America. At the time of application, candidates are not required to have a commitment of a position and laboratory space after the fellowship. However, applicants must submit a written statement of their intent to return to Latin America to continue their research career after the fellowship.
To apply, potential candidates need to identify and obtain a commitment from the head of a laboratory in the United States for a postdoctoral position. The program office will provide assistance to prospective candidates to identify investigators with similar research interests who may be interested in hiring postdoctoral fellows. For information, potential applicants may e-mail Anita Pepper, Director, Pew Biomedical Programs, at apepper@pewtrusts.org.
Applicants to the program are initially reviewed by regional selection committees in Latin America. Final selection is completed by a scientific advisory committee in the United States. Fellows are selected on the basis of their promise as outstanding investigators, as well as the scientific merit of their research proposal, their record of training, and the match of their interests with those of their host laboratory in the United States.
The application for 2014 will open on July 15, 2013.
Click here for a Directory of Pew Latin American Fellows since 1991.
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