Funding, training & scholarship opportunities

The ICGEB-SAWBP PhD Fellowship Scheme, in partnership with the  South African Department of Science, Technology and Innovation will support South African women researchers intending to study towards a PhD degree, in Biotechnology at the Cape Town Component.

The SAWBP programme promotes the interaction and mobility of South African women Biotechnology researchers and the ICGEB community, including mobility support to visit other ICGEB Components in Trieste, Italy and New Delhi, India.

Proposed doctoral research projects must be innovative and fall within one of the ICGEB Cape Town Component macro areas of research, namely: Infectious Diseases, Non-Communicable Diseases, Bioinformatics, Plant Systems Biology and Virology.

The Fellowships comprise a very attractive package:

• Three-year PhD Fellowship
• Tuition and stipend
• Applying the latest techniques and methodologies to the applicant’s chosen research topic
• Opportunities for mentoring, peer-to-peer learning and complementary skills
• Immersion in a top class international scientific research environment

Dear alumni,

Note that the call for proposals for the ICGEB research grants 2025 is now open.

The ICGEB programme provides support for original research projects in basic life sciences, human healthcare, industrial and agricultural biotechnology, and bioenergy.

If your research fits these criteria, please apply online before the 30 April 2025.

For more information and to apply online, visit: https://www.icgeb.org/grants/?utm_source=brevo&utm_campaign=nome-campagna&utm_medium=email

The 2025 calls for proposals are open for submission!

hashtagResearchers and stakeholders are invited to submit their project proposals by the call deadline, on 20 March.

More info:  https://lnkd.in/d9Y_PVb2

Global Health EDCTP3 will be hosting an online hashtag#InfoDay on 11 February to present the topics and answer questions of potential applicants.

Register for the Info Day 2025 here:  https://lnkd.in/d9BaKNAr

In 2025, our calls will support:
- Research and Innovation Actions (RIA)
-Coordination and Support Actions (CSA).

They will address the following topics:
🔹 Vaccines for reducing the disease burden of hashtag#tuberculosis in sub-Saharan Africa
🔹 hashtag#Malaria therapeutics and clinical development of new antimalarial candidates
🔹 Accelerating the development of prophylactic vaccines against neglected tropical diseases hashtag#NTDs
🔹 Strategic training hubs for hashtag#fellowships in public health
🔹 Strengthening the regional hashtag#networks of excellence and epidemic preparedness consortia
🔹 Tackling diarrhoeal diseases in the context of hashtag#climate and health
transformative innovations
🔹 Transformative hashtag#innovations in global health.

The Global Forum on Bioethics in Research (GFBR) will hold a two-day meeting in Accra, Ghana on 18 & 19 November 2025 on the topic ‘Reimagining research partnerships: equity, power and resilience’ (dates tentative). 

The topic scope is described in the Forum background paper and in the video below. The Forum abstract is also below. 

o   Papers that address governance or policy issues that relate to the topic (e.g., focusing on institutional, national, regional or international regulation, guidelines, policy, principles or issues associated with research ethics review or other governance bodies, mechanisms or tools).

The GFBR is also seeking participants to attend the meeting, with places awarded on a competitive basis. Awards are available for successful applicants from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to cover the cost of their travel, accommodation and single-entry visa. 

Are you working in vaccine R&D? If so, please consider applying to this course! (Scholarships are provided for LMICs applicants) Deadline for application is 17th January Accra, Ghana

Pharmalys and CREDO presents a free webinar on Implementation research: What is it about and what is its value?

Click here for more information on the webinar and Register here.

The increased complexity of medicines development and regulatory requirements require well-trained staff in industry, CROs and Regulatory Agencies. The 2022 SAHPRA guidelines on “Capacity Building and Transformation in Clinical Trials Research in South Africa” requires public or private clinical trial sites to offer training related to “Clinical Research and Regulatory Sciences”.

The next Clinical Investigator Certificate (CLIC) Course (CPD and GCP accredited) is scheduled to take place as a face-to-face event on the 9th to 13th of September 2024 at the Nitida Wine Farm, Tygerberg Valley Road, Durbanville, Cape Town South Africa.

For more information on the course and registration click here

Contact info@fundisa-academy.com

The International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) and the South African Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) have partnered to offer early-career women scientists from the African Continent, with the exception of South Africa, mobility fellowships for 12 months (non-renewable) at the ICGEB laboratories in Cape Town (South Africa), to perform research work on biotechnology and related fields, including Health (Infectious Diseases and Non-Communicable Diseases), Sustainable and Effective Agriculture as well as Bioinformatics.  

DEADLINE TO APPLY: 13 SEPTEMBER 2024

The Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics (BI), Makerere University College of Health Sciences (MakCHS) and University of Oxford Ethox Centre (Ethox) invite applications for the Fogarty African Bioethics Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program (FAB-PDF) – an 18-month advanced bioethics postdoctoral training program for scholars from sub-Saharan Africa who hold a bioethics-related PhD.

Funded by the Fogarty International Center, NIH, USA, the program focuses broadly on global health ethics, with particular opportunities for fellows to concentrate on issues involving global infectious disease ethics and advanced international research ethics. Applications are due by June 1, 2024

For more information, please contact Joseph Ali, JD (jali@jhu.edu) and/or Nancy E. Kass, ScD (nkass@jhu.edu)

The South African Research Ethics Training Initiative (SARETI), based at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, is an African programme in health research ethics that offers a mix of online and face-to-face modular and applied training as part of a structured Social Science Masters specialised in health research ethics. SARETI has been awarded competitive funding from the Fogarty International Center (FIC) of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), to offer Masters-level training in research ethics, beginning 2025.

Queries and expressions of interest may be directed to the SARETI Programme Coordinator, Ms Mandy Harwood, at harwooda@ukzn.ac.za.

Deadline 20 May 2024.