{"id":4616,"date":"2012-08-21T00:58:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T00:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=4616"},"modified":"2012-09-21T02:47:58","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T02:47:58","slug":"scholarships-for-african-researchers-interested-in-infectious-disease-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=4616","title":{"rendered":"Scholarships for African Researchers interested in infectious disease (Japan)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Flag-Japan.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4618\" title=\"Flag- Japan\" src=\"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Flag-Japan-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The Africa London Nagasaki Scholarship Fund has been set up to\u00a0support African scientists building a career in infectious disease\u00a0research.<br \/>\nThe scholarship will allow African researchers to undertake an MSc in a subject\u00a0relevant to the control of infectious disease in the developing world at either the\u00a0Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Japan (NEKKEN) or at the\u00a0London School of Hygiene &amp; Tropical Medicine, London, UK (LSHTM). Successful\u00a0applicants will receive a maximum of US$50,000 each to cover tuition fees, travel\u00a0and living expenses. The fund will support up to four scholarships per year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Applicants must be of African nationality and normally be resident in sub-Saharan\u00a0Africa. They must have a first or upper second class BSc degree (or equivalent) in\u00a0a relevant area and will usually have at least two years prior research experience.\u00a0Candidates who apply to study in Japan must have a medical qualification and at\u00a0least two years of clinical experience. More details about the nature of the<br \/>\nscholarship fund, eligibility criteria and on how to apply can be found on\u00a0www.alnscholarshipfund.org.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The application deadline is Saturday 29 September 2012<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For details:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Scholarship-for-African-Researchers-interested-in-infectious-disease-Japan.pdf\">Scholarship for African Researchers interested in infectious disease (Japan)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Africa London Nagasaki Scholarship Fund has been set up to\u00a0support African scientists building a career in infectious disease\u00a0research. The scholarship will allow African researchers to undertake an MSc in a subject\u00a0relevant to the control of infectious disease in the developing world at either the\u00a0Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Japan (NEKKEN) or at the\u00a0London [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postdoct","category-scholarship-bourses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4616"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4820,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616\/revisions\/4820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}