Fellowships

2017 CEND Research Fellowship: Thomas C. Alber Science & Engineering for Global Health

The “Science & Engineering for Global Health” Fellowship provides $10,000 for PhD candidates and postdocs interested in conducting infectious disease-related research in the lab of a collaborator in a low-or middle-income country. Through the fellowship, awards of $5,000 will be made to qualified individuals, with a matching $5,000 grant provided to the host institution in a developing country.

Funds may be used to support international travel, living expenses and research activities beginning in summer 2017. Fellows are expected to travel abroad for 2 to 3 months, and present in a research symposium upon returning to UC Berkeley in fall 2017 or Spring 2018.

The U.S. Global Development Lab of USAID has partnered with UC Berkeley to create the Global Development Fellows Program, supporting cutting edge solutions to address pressing sustainable development challenges in countries where USAID operates. GDF receives additional support through a generous grant from the Chevron Corporation and from the Global Food Initiative of the University of California’s President’s Office. This exciting program is managed by the Berkeley Master of Development Practice. Applications are open to all UC Berkeley graduate students. Sign up to receive frequent updates on the GDF, including application dates, events, etc. here .

Info sessions will be held on November 10th at 12pm and 5pm in 311 Wellman Hall.

For more information, available opportunities, and application instructions, please visit: http://mdp.berkeley.edu/global-development-fellowships-about/

The GloCal Health Fellowship is a career development fellowship sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Fogarty International Center (FIC), as well as a consortium at the UCGHI. This program supports fellows from the 10 UC campuses as well as 27 affiliated international sites across 16 countries.

For more information and application instructions, please visit the UCGHI website.

Open Innovation @ NITD was established by Novartis in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to address fundamental research questions in drug discovery for global health.

As a collaborative, academic environment within the Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases (NITD), Open Innovation @ NITD unites basic research with the infrastructure of a world-class pharmaceutical company.

Innovation Scholars will explore unique projects with the potential to contribute to solving global unmet medical needs. Scholars will contribute ideas to tackle fundamental research questions or technology gaps, while Novartis will provide state-of-the-art infrastructure and access to an extensive network of scientists across a wide range of disciplines throughout the global organization. Our collaboration will contribute to new therapies for global health and further the independent careers of the Innovation Scholars.

The current thematic focus of Open Innovation @ NITD is research directed to Plasmodium vivax. This widespread parasite has limited treatment options and is the next frontier in malaria elimination.

How to apply

Innovation Scholar appointments are three year fixed-term positions at the Novartis campus in Emeryville, located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Successful candidates will receive competitive salary and benefits, a research budget and the appropriate support for the project.

Submit your CV and one-page research plan addressing fundamental knowledge gaps in P. vivax discovery. Applications can be submitted throughout the year.

Please address questions to: OpenInnovation.NITD@novartis.com

Click here for the informational flyer.

Phages for Global Health Internship Opportunity – Fall 2018

Internship Job Description

The Global Antibiotic Resistance Crisis: Did you know that antibiotic resistant infections are expected to cause 10 million deaths annually by 2050? That is 5 times as many deaths each year as HIV/AIDS caused during the deadliest year of that crisis. And developing countries will be hardest hit by antibiotic resistance, with almost 90% of the deaths expected to occur there.

Since antibiotics are losing their effectiveness, Phages for Global Health is training public health scientists in Africa how to develop cheap, natural antibiotic alternatives (phages) that can kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Through 2-week, hands-on laboratory training workshops, we teach scientists how to isolate and characterize phages from their local regions. Those African researchers are then able to both start their own phage projects and teach others to do so.

The Internship Opportunity Our next workshop is scheduled to be held in Nigeria during March 17-30, 2019, and an intern position is available for someone to help coordinate the logistics for the workshop. This will involve 5 months of remote work before the workshop (part-time up to 20 hours/week, beginning mid-October), with the option of also providing onsite logistical support in Nigeria during the 2- week workshop itself (full-time).

Specific Activities

• Facilitating the workshop participant selection process by organizing all of the applications and letters of recommendation for members of the review panel
• Responding to email questions from workshop applicants throughout West Africa
• Notifying the selected and wait-listed participants of their status
• Making travel and hotel arrangements for all of the workshop participants and staff
• Helping coordinate shipment of laboratory supplies to the workshop location in Nigeria
• Distributing logistical information to all participants and staff, including the syllabus, lab manual, pre-reading materials, and necessary visa and vaccination requirements

Qualifications

• Graduate or advanced undergraduate student; hands-on laboratory experience would be helpful, but not essential (non-science majors are welcome to apply if they meet all the other qualifications below)
• Extremely detail-oriented and responsible, independently following through on all required activities according to expected timelines
• Skilled at managing multiple organizational tasks in parallel
• Flexible enough to interact with people from a variety of countries and time zones, including those with variable internet/communication availability

More information is available at: www.phagesforglobalhealth.org

Interested students should send a CV and cover letter to Dr. Tobi Nagel at tobi@phagesforglobalhealth.org

The Thomas C. Alber Science & Engineering for Global Health Fellowship is named after Dr. Tom Alber, Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology and founding Faculty Director of CEND. Dr. Alber believed that scientists from across the UC Berkeley campus have the potential to make an impact on our understanding of diseases that disproportionately affect the world's poor as evidenced by his own contributions to the tuberculosis and HIV fields in his career as a structural biologist. In recognition of Dr. Alber's contributions to CEND, Henry "Sam" Wheeler, Jr. is allowing CEND to use part of his gift to fund the S&E fellowship in Dr. Alber's honor.

The Alber S&E fellowship program provides professional development funds to early-career researchers in CEND-affiliated labs who are interested in conducting infectious disease research or drug discovery/high-throughput screening.

Application Guidelines: Submit a complete application package by midnight on June 6th, 2025. As part of the application, you must write about your current research project(s) and develop a proposal on what you intend to do with the funding, including a budget and an explanation of how it will support your professional development. Applications will be reviewed by a panel of CEND faculty members and awards will be announced in June 2025.

The purpose of the Irving H. Wiesenfeld, the Kathleen L. Miller and the Sidney Mac Donald Russell Family Graduate Fellowships is to support UC Berkeley graduate students of high distinction involved in the study of emerging and neglected infectious diseases, including basic science, discovery of effective treatments, diagnostics, and vaccines, or policy, law, economics in national or global health. The fellowship can be used to support research expenses or equipment that is not covered through the applicant’s PI, travel to conferences, a campaign with the UCB drug discovery center to develop starting points for novel therapeutics, and scientific or scholarly exchange between UC Berkeley and researchers in disease-endemic countries. Through the fellowship, awards of up to $5,000 will be made to qualified individuals. ​This fellowship is not intended to subsidize or replace pre-existing funding from the applicants lab.

In addition to receiving the funds for their professional development, fellows will also participate in the CEND fellowship research seminar giving them an opportunity to showcase their current research and practice their presentation and networking skills. They will also join the broader CEND community, which will open them up to access to CEND faculty, mentorship, and other CEND-related opportunities throughout the year. CEND fellows are required to write a one page report to the donors explaining how the funds were used to support their professional development.

Novartis is a global healthcare company based in Switzerland that provides solutions to address the evolving needs of patients worldwide. New job opportunities have recently been posted. Follow the links below to find out more!

Group Leader – Lead Discovery
https://www.novartis.com/careers/career-search/job-details/254238BR

Investigator – Lead Discovery
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Scientist – Infectious Diseases, Parasitology
https://www.novartis.com/careers/career-search/job-details/257828BR

Scientific Associate – Parasitology
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The Alliance for Global Health and Science is looking for 2 summer interns to help develop and execute three 2 week-long wet lab workshops in metagenomics, tissue culture/immunology, and protein purification in conjunction with faculty and student assistants. The interns will spend 3-10 hours per week during the Spring semester testing workshop protocols, and then travel to Kampala, Uganda 3-4 weeks prior to the workshop to test all protocols and troubleshoot procedures in coordination with student assistants and workshop faculty. Read the whole job description here.

For all students interested in the MHIRT project in Nicaragua, the project posting has been changed and updated to meet the most recent research needs of the site. Please read the new description here and update your applications accordingly.