PhD | Scholarship for Nigerians and Africans - Part 172

Center for Biological Sequence

Job Description: A PhD position is available for immediate start at Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology in collaboration with the Sino-Danish Breast Cancer research group.

The Center for Biological Sequence Analysis conducts basic research in the field of bioinformatics and systems biology and employs a staff of +100 with a highly multi-disciplinary profile (molecular biologists, biochemists, medical doctors, physicists, computer scientists, and technical staff). The center represents one of the largest bioinformatics and systems biology groups in academia in Europe.

The successful candidate will be based at the Technical University of Denmark and will collaborate closely with Danish breast cancer clinical groups. The project will be interdisciplinary involving data integration from sequencing, microarrays, SNPs, literature mining, protein-protein interactions and text mining on clinical patient records.

Qualifications
Candidates applying for a PhD scholarship should have a master’s degree in bioinformatics, biology, biochemistry, engineering, computer science, or a similar degree.

The applicant should have a good biological background and computing skills with unix command line, perl/python and R are preferred. Prior experience with oncology or drug disposition is highly desirable. The applicant must be a good communicator and fluent in written as well as spoken English.

Application Deadline 30july2010

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Dennis William Moore Scholarship

Job Description: The Dennis William Moore Scholarship was established in 1999 as a result of a capital donation to the University of Canterbury from the Estate of Dennis William Moore, a Minister of Religion of Hari Hari and an Electrical Inspector. The capital donation was used to set up the Dennis William Moore Fund.

The scholarship is tenable for a thesis student in astronomy who has been or will be undertaking observational work at Mt John as part of his/her thesis work.

The scholarship shall be known as the Dennis William Moore Scholarship. It was established in 1999 as a result of a capital donation to the University of Canterbury from the Estate of Dennis William Moore, a Minister of Religion of Hari Hari and an Electrical Inspector. The capital donation was used to set up the Dennis William Moore Fund.

2. The scholarship shall be awarded from time to time from the Dennis William Moore Fund and is tenable for a thesis student in astronomy who has been or will be undertaking observational work at Mt John as part of his/her thesis work.

3. The tenure shall be one year for a Masters student and up to three years for a student enrolled in a PhD.

4. The scholarship shall be awarded by the University Council on the recommendation of a Selection Committee comprising:
i. the Vice-Chancellor, or nominee;
ii. the Dean of the Faculty of Science
iii. the Head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

5. The scholarship may be held with any other bursary, scholarship, prize or fellowship unless the conditions of the other award preclude it, provided that the Selection Committee may in determining the amount of the award take into account the number and nature of any other awards held by the successful applicant.

Application Deadline 1November2010

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Edinburgh Law School

Job Description: Edinburgh Law School will offer two scholarship opportunities to support students taking the PhD degree on a full-time basis and commencing their studies in September 2010.

* One award to cover tuition fees at the Home/EU level as well as a maintenance stipend of £8,000 per annum.

* One award to cover tuition fees at the Home/EU level

Applicants should apply for the PhD programme through the usual route and must also send a seperate email to pg.law@ed.ac.uk stating that they wish to be considered for this award. The closing date for receipt of applications will be 31 July 2010. It is essential that you apply also for a place on the PhD programme before this deadline; we recommend that you apply for the PhD programme at least one month before the July funding deadline if possible.

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