Montreal, Canada, November 14, 2011 - This year the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center, with the support of the Sainte-Justine UHC Foundation, is launching the 2012 International Sainte-Justine UHC Foundation Postdoctoral Scholarships for Excellence competition. The competition is intended for the world’s postdoctoral elite in evaluative, clinical and fundamental biomedical research. Three CAD$150,000 scholarships for three years will be awarded. Each one comes with CAD$15,000 seed funding in the first year provided by the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center. The determinant selection criteria are the excellence of the file and the applicant’s official mentorship under one of the Center’s “active researchers.”

The Sainte-Justine UHC Foundation Postdoctoral Scholarships for Excellence are a veritable springboard for the careers of the world’s future leaders in mother-child biomedical research. They enable future postdoctoral students to carve out a niche for themselves in the 1st mother-child center in Canada and 4th in America, along with investigators who enjoy international acclaim in the university hospital research center’s six areas of priority research: Health Outcomes, Brain Diseases, Musculoskeletal Diseases and Movement Sciences, Viral and Immune Disorders and Cancers, Fetomaternal and Neonatal Pathologies and Metabolic Health.

Deadline for submission of applications: March 31, 2012

To get more information on eligibility, competition regulations and calendar, and how to apply, applicants are invited to visit the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center’s website at www.chu-sainte-justine.org/research/scholarships