Apply for the TDR Fellowship: Boost Your Clinical Research Skills

Overview

The CRL Fellowship Programme by TDR offers 6-12 month placements for mid-career researchers from LMICs to enhance skills in clinical research, focusing on infectious diseases and fostering leadership for sustainable development.

Scope

The CRL Fellowship Programme supports mid-career clinical researchers and trial staff from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to develop leadership skills in clinical research through 6–12-month placements in Training Partner Organizations (TPOs).

Eligibility

• be a national of, and resident in, an LMIC.
• be an MD or postgraduate with a PhD or master’s degree in clinical trial, pharmacy or other related field, with proof of experience of clinical research and or clinical trial related activities in the scope of TDR.
• have been a researcher or clinical research staff member employed for the last 24 months in an institution with a registered legal entity in an LMIC conducting clinical research activities in poverty-related infectious diseases, emerging infection diseases, pandemic preparedness, antimicrobial resistance and NTDs.

Benefits

• one economy class return ticket (home – TPO – home).
• a monthly stipend based on the location of the placement.
• health insurance and support to present at the relevant international conference during the fellowship.
• access to an alumni network.
• A break at six months can be offered to allow the fellows to go back to their home institution to present to their peers the acquired training and the scientific progress made so far.
• provisional funds for reintegration, conditional upon the approval of a progress report and reintegration plan.