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***Applications are not currently being accepted.***
The next call for applications will be in January, 2009
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The Keck Center of the Gulf Coast Consortia established a training program in Pharmacoinformatics in 2004. Supported by an NIH funded training grant, the training program is designed in response to the Roadmap Initiative, Training for a New Interdisciplinary Workforce (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/t90.htm).
OVERVIEW
Fellowships are available for pre- and postdoctoral trainees interested in interdisciplinary training in the broad area of drug design and development under the direction of participating faculty. Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows with training/expertise in one or more of the following specific areas: contemporary biomedical science (e.g., biochemistry, cell biology, pharmacology, etc.),chemistry,computer science,informatics,mathematics or computational biology, structural biology, medicine, or a related discipline, are encouraged to apply.
We are seeking individuals who wish to...
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build upon a strong grounding in a specific discipline(s),
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obtain interdisciplinary training that will enable them to lead future efforts,
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conceptualize new therapeutic targets, and
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efficiently and effectively develop corresponding drugs with high probabilities of reaching the market as safe, efficacious agents.
Creative, highly motivated trainees with the potential and desire to work in interdisciplinary teams of scientists in this broad area will be most successful. Projects are not required to be primarily "informatic" in nature, but should involve a significant bioinformatic and/or computational element.
Inter-institutional training is conducted by approximately 75 training faculty from the six institutions of the Gulf Coast Consortia (Baylor College of Medicine, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Rice University, the University of Houston, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston) in the Houston - Galveston area and utilizes research training with co-mentors, didactic courses, seminars, retreats, and career development activities. Predoctoral trainees will matriculate and receive first year support at their home institutions, with training grant stipends awarded on a competitive basis for up to two years of subsequent training. The home institution will award the Ph.D. Postdoctoral trainees will receive support for two years maximum. The purpose of the program is to train future leaders in drug discovery research.
For information about
the Gulf Coast Consortia (GCC),
other Keck Center Training Programs,
and
the GCC Research Consortia,
please go to GCC Home
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