Organ and Tissue Donation Grants

Thomas E. Starzl Postdoctoral Fellowship in Transplantation Biology

The Thomas E. Starzl Postdoctoral Fellowship in Transplantation Biology has been established to train outstanding national or international M.D., Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D. postdoctoral fellows who exhibit potential to develop into highly successful independent investigators and likely to remain in transplantation research. The purpose of this two-year fellowship is (1) to foster the training of research fellows with the potential to develop into successful independent investigators and (2) to foster, through training research fellows, transplant-related research that is of high merit.

Additional fellowship information, application instructions, and application forms will be available in the summer of 2010. Inquiries concerning the application process should be made to stiresearch@pitt.edu.

Application deadline is December 1, 2010 with a beginning start date of July 1, 2011.