Wellcome Trust Biomedical Vacation Scholarships 2009, UK

Applications are invited from biomedical and veterinary science departments for undergraduates to work on a biomedical science research project during their summer vacation.

Scholarships provide the student with a stipend for up to eight weeks. Research expenses are not provided.

Students should be undergraduates in the middle (i.e. not the first or last) years of their first degree studies. They should be registered for a basic science, medical, dentistry or veterinary degree at a university within the UK or the Republic of Ireland (RoI). Projects must be undertaken at a UK or RoI university. Preference will be given to undergraduates without previous research experience.

Students are encouraged to arrange their scholarship away from their usual place of study. Application forms and further details are available until 9 February 2009, from the Wellcome Trust website

Applications must be submitted on behalf of the student, by the project supervisor.

Forms must be returned by 16 February 2009.