Career and Grant Opportunities

Global Health Research Initiative Program for New Foreign Investigators (GRIP) – FIC/NIH

This is a program created by FIC/NIH in 2001. Its main aim is to support, financially, former visiting fellows, from developing countries, that have completed their training at NIH and are returning to their own countries.

The investigators applying for this project (R01 format) should have a permanent job at the institution in their country of citizenship. The period to submit for this project is until 03 years after leaving NIH.

Classification of the projects to be granted is based on: 1) competence and qualifications of the principal investigator; 2) scientific merit of the project; 3) according to the infra-structure conditions of the institution where the project will be developed; and 4) support by part of the country institution where the project will be developed.

The financial support is US$50,000.00 for 3 to 5 years.

Four Brazilian former visiting fellows have been granted by this program.

For more information visit FIC website at http://www.fic.nih.gov/programs/GRIP.html

Fellowship sites in Brazil

The site in Salvador and Fortaleza, Brazil are centers for tropical disease research in Brazil which has made major contributions to the understanding of the natural history of endemic diseases such as leishmaniasis, schistosomiasis and Chagas' disease. The principal research institutions are the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation/Brazilian Ministry of Health (Fiocruz) and the School of Medicine at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBa). Both institutions share graduate programs in medical sciences, immunology and experimental pathology and have had a long-term research partnership such as the current NIAID sponsored Tropical Medicine Research Center (TMRC). For more information, please, visit:http://www.aamc.org/students/medstudents/overseasfellowship/brazil.htm