Bio-CARe
‘Biotechnology CAREER ADVANCEMENT
Research Grant Opportunity (RGO)
The purpose is to build capacities for women scientists employed fulltime in Universities and small research laboratories or unemployed women scientist after a career break so as to help them undertake independent R&D projects.
1. Eligibility Criteria:
(i). M.D/M. Tech /Ph. D/Equivalent degree in any branch of Life Sciences
(ii). Women Scientists who are employed or unemployed or are coming back after a break.
(iii). Women Scientists for whom it is the first grant
(iv). Women Scientists upto 55 years of age
(v). The scheme is open to women applicants from all areas in Life Science or biology (including agriculture, veterinary science and medicine)
2. Guidelines for Application & Procedure:
(i). Since women who are currently not holding grant proposals are eligible, the applicants be asked to submit a letter of intent (LOI) for preliminary screening.
(ii). For unemployed candidates, a letter from the Mentor Scientist /Institute in whose lab she proposes to work should accompany the LOI. In case, where Mentor/Institute is not identified, but LOI looks interesting a Mentor/Institute can be identified and requested to be associated.
(iii). Women whose LOIs look promising be called to participate in workshops. The workshops will be held from time-to-time to improvise on their project notions and proposals. Final proposals should be submitted following such consultative process.
(iv). For the R&D grant, journal impact factor or even nil publications would not be a limiting factor.
(v). Project proposal can be for a 3+2 years (two years extension is subjected to review).
(vi). First successful application and execution of the project need not debar the women scientist from a second application. Any woman scientist can be considered for a maximum of 3 such applications run consecutively not in parallel with total duration of the support under this scheme not extending beyond fifteen years.
(vii). For 2nd such application-rest of the qualifying conditions would be the same except that there should at least be one/two publications in an ISI indexed journal with an impact factor > 0.5
(viii). All the actual amounts mentioned at the time of proposing these schemes can be revised from time to time based on inflation index.
3. Budget/Stipend:
(i) The slabs would be decided based on post Ph.D experience
Grade – I Rs.35,000/- (Ph.D+ nil experience)
Grade – II Rs.40,000/-(Ph.D + more than 5 years research/industrial experience)
Grade – III Rs.45,000/-(Ph.D+ more than 10 years research/industrial experience)
(ii) For employed candidat,e an additional amount of Rs. 5,000/- over her salary would be provided as an incentive
(iii) The total budget for R&D project will range from 25 lakhs to 50 lakhs. All research related expenses to be booked under Equipment, Consumables, Manpower, Contingency, Travel etc as in other ongoing R&D Schemes.
For any query contact : Dr. Anamika Gambhir
Principal Scientific Officer
Department of Biotechnology
C.G.O. Complex, New Delhi – 110 003.
Tel: 011-24369612
Email: anamika.dbt@nic.in
FOR DETAILS, PLEASE REFER http://dbtindia.nic.in/docs/advertisement-website.doc
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