The next competition deadline will be March 1st, 2010.

The CIHR Systems Biology Training Program will award eight to ten stipends annually. Each will be roughly $15,000/year for two years and $3,500/year for the third and fourth years. New Ph.D. students with alternative sources of funding are eligible to receive "top ups” from this program.

The program is open to Ph.D. candidates only, from all McGill University departments.

Formal instructions to apply will appear first week of February

As a condition of funding, the student will be expected to complete some training exercises specific to the program (e.g. workshops, seminar series, written yearly report).

Goals for the training program in Systems Biology:

1. The research project should focus on human health and disease;
2. Several principal investigators, possibly from different institutions or industry, with common goals and infrastructure for group meetings and discussion;
3. Members who are developing new technologies to be applied in biomedical arenas;
4. Elements of quantitative analysis (bioinformatics, biostatistics, mathematical modeling) within these projects
5. Collaborations in place or in development with clinicians or other health experts with clinical/translational experience

Please feel free to email with any questions.

Supervisor form [.pdf]