ICMR International Fellowship For Indian Biomedical Scientists

ICMR has embarked upon an International fellowship programme for capacity strengthening of scientists of our country. The scheme has been constituted to achieve the objective of building up a highly skilled pool of biomedical researchers in all aspects of biomedical research including basic, applied, epidemiological and clinical sciences. The duration of fellowships for Young Scientists is 3 - 6 months while it is 10 - 15 days for Senior Scientists. The number of fellowships for Young Scientists is 12 per year while the same is 6 per year for Senior Scientists. The age limit is 45 yrs and 57 yrs for Young and Senior scientists respectively.The individual scientist availing this Fellowship would be addressed as an ICMR International Fellow (ICMR-IF). The Young Scientists would be given US$ 3000 per month which includes accommodation and other expenses. The Senior Scientists are entitled to US$ 200 per day (including US$ 75 as per diem and up to US$ 125 for accommodation expenses, subject to a maximum of US$ 3000 for entire duration of stay). In addition, the awardees would be provided Return economy class excursion airfare (by Air India) and Contingency grant of upto Rs. 20,000/- as per actuals (which includes visa fee, taxi charges from place of duty to airport and back, overseas medical insurance).