Wellcome Welcomes Visiting Professors
Universities interested in hosting leading research scientists can tap the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Each year, Wellcome Visiting Professorships in the Basic Medical Sciences are presented to 21 scientists - three each in physiology, biochemistry/molecular biology, pharmacology, pathology, nutrition, immunology, and cell biology - for visits of two to five days at U.S. institutions.
With the two-year-old Cooperative Science Program, investigators in both countries submit proposals concurrently to their respective government research agencies (in the U.S., it's the National Science Foundation). Proposals should emphasize the potential benefits of sharing facilities and combined expertise. The projects are approved and funded by the home country. NSF subsidizes travel costs and other expenses for U.S. scientists, but not the cost of the research itself.
The other program, on which the two countries have cooperated since 1981, supports research in the specific areas of photoconversion and photosynthesis. This program is coordinated ...
