APTI Fellowships
The African Postdoctoral Training Initiative (APTI) supports early-career African scientists who wish to become scientific leaders in their community, help solve Africa’s challenges in global health and development, and become trainers for the next generation. APTI makes 4-year postdoctoral fellowships where Fellows are placed in various laboratories for 2 years before returning to their home institutions in Africa for another 2 years of research.
Eligible applications for APTI fellowships must meet the following criteria:
- Must be citizens of an African country, currently employed in an academic, research, or government position in an African country
- Must have a relevant doctoral degree (e.g., PhD, MD, MBBS) awarded no more than 7 years before the application submission deadline. Applicants whose doctoral degrees were awarded earlier may be considered on a case-by-case basis subject to justification (e.g., where one took a career break for family-related reasons or to seek asylum due to political instability). Such applicants should submit a request (with justification) for consideration
- Must have less than 5 years of relevant research experience after the award of their doctoral degree, by their start date at the NIH. Brief periods of clinical work and/or teaching, that does not include research, may be allowable, but cannot exceed 2-3 years total.
- Must be fluent in English – reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
Specific areas of interest include:
- Human immunobiology; (human) host-pathogen biology; vaccines and biologics discovery
- Drug discovery: malaria, tuberculosis, pandemic viruses, contraception
- Microbiome research
- Genomics: human, pathogen, microbiome
- Gene-based cures for HIV and sickle cell disease
- HIV, TB, malaria, neglected tropical diseases, enteric and diarrheal diseases, pneumonia
- Women’s sexual and reproductive health
- Vector biology and control (for malaria, neglected tropical diseases and arboviruses)
- Maternal, neonatal and child health, the last including nutrition, growth, and neurodevelopment
- Data science, regulatory science
- Epidemic preparedness: molecular surveillance, clinical trial networks
Years 1 and 2
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- Stipend support
- Insurance
- Training support
Years 3 and 4
APTI fellows shall be provided with a grant of up to USD 226,800 to support years 3 and 4 of the APTI fellowship as detailed below:
- Salary support of up-to USD 38,400 per year
- Research support of up to USD 50,000 per year
- Equipment purchase support of up to USD 50,000 (total)
All applications and their supporting documents must be submitted in English. Supporting documents issued in a language other than English should be accompanied by their English translation.
Applications must be submitted via the AAS Grants Management system (Ishango).
For more information: https://www.aasciences.africa/calls/call-applications-apti-fellowships
Submission closes on 30 September 2022, at 17.00 East African Time (GMT +3).
