SAWISE Hope Scholarship - Africa

Job Description: Application are invited for the SAWISE Hope Scholarship

Eligibility Criteria : Female students entering their Honours degree/4th year of study with an academic average of over 65%, pursuing study in the areas of science and engineering (medical fields included). Candidates must exhibit outstanding personal qualities and a strong desire to make a contribution to their respective fields and to society at large. Candidates must be South
African. Preference will be given to a candidate experiencing financial difficulty or distress.

Period: One year, full-time study.
Tenable: At any of the following universities: University of Cape Town, University of Johannesburg, University of Kwazulu-Natal, University of Pretoria, University of Stellenbosch, University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Western Cape.
Value: R10 000
Mentorship: The scholarship founding group will serve as mentors to the recipient over the course of her Honours year /4th year of study. The recipient will be assigned special industry-specific mentors that align with her field of study. The recipient will have the opportunity to interact with the founding network of professional women through her invitation to, and participation in,
Hope Network and SAWISE events.

Application Procedure: Submit a covering letter of motivation, a detailed CV (including the contact details of two academic referees), a certified copy of all university results to date, and a certified ID copy. Ensure that a working emailaddress is provided with your CV. Incomplete or late applications will not be considered. All applications to be sent to the address listed below.

Closing Date: 30 November 2010

The SAWISE Hope Scholarship, P.O. Box 34085, Rhodes Gift, Cape Town, 7707
Enquires: Prof Jacquie Greenberg at jacquie.greenberg-at-uct.ac.za

Further Scholarship Information and Application

Cancer Council Queensland PhD scholarships, Australia

Cancer Council Queensland invites applications from suitably qualified research students who will be commencing a course of study for the degree of PhD in an approved Queensland tertiary institution in January 2011. These are three year grants with the possibility of six months extension

Cancer Council Queensland PhD scholarships are intended to provide financial support for the student only. Funding for the research work to be undertaken is the responsibility of the institution.

Ph.D. position in Bioinformatics-Computational Biophysics, TU Munich

1 Ph.D. position

is available, starting September 2010, in the context a DFG funded collaboration project in the area of Protein Engineering and Design. The goal of the project is to extend the group software DynaCell, which was successfully introduced for Computer-aided Drug Design, to protein engineering applications with a focus on the design and optimization of enzymatic binding sites. The project will involve methods development in the area of statistical sampling and scoring function optimization. The evaluation and application of the approach will be performed in close collaboration with experimental groups on campus and within the CIPM excellence cluster.

The Theoretical Chemical Biology and Computer-Aided Drug Design group is an integral part of the center of excellence “Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich“ (CIPSM) and is located at the Life Science Campus of the Technical University, both offering an excellent environment for innovative and collaborative research across disciplines.

Successful applicants should have a strong background in either bioinformatics or in chemistry or physics with a focus on computational/theoretical work. Experience in structural modeling of biological or chemical systems would be advantageous. Candidates are expected to engage in interdisciplinary research and to foster collaborations with experimental groups from biochemistry, biology, and biotechnology.

Please send the usual application material, including at least two letters of reference, as a single PDF file to: antes@wzw.tum.de (preferred) or via surface mail to:

Prof. Dr. Iris Antes
Technical University of Munich
Fachgebiet Protein Modelling
Emil-Erlenmeyer-Forum 8
D-85354 Freising-Weihenstephan

For further information please visit our website at:
http://www.wzw.tum.de/tcb
Application Deadline : 15 July 2010
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Posted on 2010-06-26 13:46:13