To nurture a cadre of talented biomedical and clinical research scientists at the School, the School launched the LKCMedicine Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme. The programme aims to:

• Nurture outstanding young research talent to conduct research studies integrated with LKCMedicine’s research strategy and in the process, develop a research career towards becoming a potential faculty member;
• Advance the School’s strategic research partnership with Imperial College London through the conduct of complementary and collaborative research at LKCMedicine in Singapore.

Fellowship Details

1. The LKCMedicine Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowship is tenable for up to three (3) years and provides competitive remuneration to the successful applicant. The fellowship also provides the successful applicant with a research grant of up to SGD 30,000 per year. The research grant is renewable annually for the second and third years, subject to favorable review by the School. The grant can support consumables and other operating expenditure including travel to Imperial College London for collaborative research activities/conference where necessary.

2. Faculty members may not have more than one funded Dean's postdoctoral fellow at the same time. Please check with your co-sponsors.

3. Research grant funding provided by the fellowship is to support direct research activities. Awardees must spend 100% of their time on research.

Eligibility Criteria

1. Applicants must possess a PhD degree and demonstrate a promising research track record. Applicants in the first three years of postdoctoral research training are preferred.

2. Each applicant must have a faculty sponsor from LKCMedicine and co-sponsor from Imperial College London. The LKCMedicine faculty sponsor will host the successful applicant in his/her laboratory.

3. The LKCMedicine faculty sponsor must be appointed full-time faculty or Joint Appointment at the school (Visiting and Adjunct faculty members are not eligible).

4. Each applicant is required to submit a research proposal that he/she plans to carry out at the School. The proposal will be a joint project between LKCMedicine and Imperial College London, integrated with the School’s research strategy and aligned with research at Imperial College London. The LKCMedicine faculty sponsor and Imperial College co-sponsor will jointly supervise the progress of the joint research project.

5. Research/postdoctoral fellows at Imperial College London wishing to develop further and/or test bed their existing research projects in the Singapore environment are encouraged to apply.

6. The successful applicant must be appointed as a postdoctoral scholar at LKCMedicine at the time the award begins.

7. Successful awardees cannot be enrolled in a degree-granting program while funded.

8. The LKCMedicine Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowship is open to Singapore Citizens, Singapore Permanent Residents, and other nationals.

Application

Interested applicants should submit​:

· Applicant’s CV

· A joint research proposal that includes a brief statement of proposed investigation in the following sections:  background, goals, hypothesis, experimental methods and budgeting. Refer to the proposal form here​.

· LKCMedicine faculty sponsor’s and Imperial College London faculty co-sponsor’s letters of support for the applicant and for the joint research proposal.

Applications for 2022 is now closed.

Feel free to contact Chin Yein (chinyein.chin@ntu.edu.sg) for any clarifications.

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