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Grantsmanship Training / Fellowship Award:
Grantsmanship training for early careers investigators is a programme to build capacity of early career investigators to conceptualize and develop high quality research proposals and win competitive international and local grants.
This a 21-day residential training which is implemented in conjunction with NIMR and facilitated by a mix of diverse and highly skilled international and local researchers with verifiable track records of winning highly competitive international/local grants.
Each training track admits a cohort of 30 researchers drawn from across the six geo-political zones of Nigeria on an annual basis.
Mentorship Award:
NIMR Foundation will establish a mentor-mentee program for all its cohort. In addition, the grantsmanship training has mentorship component and trainees are expected to and sign up on honor code to cascade training at their institution and establish mentorship program for participants at such institutions.
Publication Awards:
Grantsmanship program provides small research grants for the best 5 proposals in each cohort as evaluated by an ad-hoc scientific committee selected by the Research Advisory Council of the Foundation.