The above links will take you to the Center for the Health Professions site.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The Pew Latin American Fellows Program in the Biomedical Sciences is designed to support young scientists from Latin America for post-doctoral training in the United States. The Program is intended to provide such individuals with an opportunity to further their scientific knowledge, promote scientific exchange and collaboration between investigators in the U.S. and Latin America, and advance basic scientific research in Latin America. The funding of the awards is provided by The Pew Charitable Trusts.

The nineteenth class of Fellows will be selected in 2009. An award of $60,000 will be provided as a salary stipend for the fellow during the period of training (2 years) and will be administered by the sponsoring U.S. institution. The sponsoring institution is expected to supplement the stipend with at least $5,000 a year and provide medical benefits for the fellow. Following the two year fellowship, the Program will issue an additional $35,000 award to the sponsoring institution to purchase equipment and supplies for the fellow to establish a laboratory in his or her home country.

PEW HISTORY

The Pew Charitable Trusts (www.pewtrusts.org) is driven by the power of knowledge to solve today’s most challenging problems. Pew applies a rigorous, analytical approach to improve public policy, inform the public and stimulate civic life and partners with a diverse range of donors, public and private organizations and concerned citizens who share its commitment to fact-based solutions and goal-driven investments to improve society. An independent nonprofit, the Trusts is the sole beneficiary of seven individual charitable funds established between 1948 and 1979 by two sons and two daughters of Sun Oil Company founder Joseph N. Pew and his wife, Mary Anderson Pew.