IMB Global Challenges Scholarship
This scholarship is closed.
- Enrolment status
- Future UQ student
- Student type
- Domestic
- Study level
- Postgraduate research (HDR)
- Study area
- Science and mathematics
- Scholarship focus
- Academic excellence
- Funding type
- Top-up
- Scholarship value
- $5,000 per annum (top-up) + $5,000 Placement and $2,000 Professional Development support over the period of the candidature
- Scholarship duration
- 3.5 years with a possible additional 3 months to conduct a placement.
- Number awarded
- Multiple
- Applications open
- 1 June 2024
- Applications close
- 8 September 2024
About this scholarship
This scholarship provides a top-up and Professional Development funding, and is designed to bring together a cohort of students tackling the challenge of discovering drugs inspired by nature through multidisciplinary approaches. As an IMB Global Challenges Scholar, you will have sessions with world experts in your field, a retreat with your intake in your first six months, industry engagement opportunities, and training in research, commercialisation and entrepreneurial and transferable skills.
The theme for 2025 is ‘Drugs inspired by nature'. Learn more at the IMB website.
Eligibility
You're eligible if you meet the entry requirements for a higher degree by research.
How to apply
If you would like to apply for the IMB Global Challenges Scholarship, submit an expression of interest to IMB and then officially apply when you submit an application for your program. You don’t need to submit a separate scholarship application.
In your application ensure that under the ‘Scholarships and collaborative study’ section you select:
- ‘My higher degree is not collaborative’
- ‘I am applying for, or have been awarded a scholarship or sponsorship'
- ‘Other’, then ‘Research Project Scholarship’ and in the ‘Name of scholarship’ field enter IMB GLOBAL CHALLENGES.
More information is available on the IMB website.