Scholarship in applied biomaterials

Viking Olov Björk scholarship supports research in the intersection between medical technology and its clinical applications. This covers research and development within such areas as tissue engineering, nanotechnology or biomaterial research.
The scholarship is to be given to a young researcher at a Nordic university who has shown scientific skills in the field and shown aptitude for leadership within the scientific field supported by the scholarship.
The scholarship proceeds is to finance the recipient's costs for a longer visit to a highly ranked international research institute. The visit shall commence within a year after funding.

Researcher with employment at or with similar strong collaborative link with Uppsala University shall be preferred. Such link requires a well witnessed, and the year before application established collaboration in a research project that has Uppsala University as principal organization.
Application shall be written in English and includes CV, research plan for the project expected to be carried through at the foreign institute, certificate from the foreign site confirming access to and availability of resources, statement from tutor/similar at the own Nordic university, and finally budget for the stay abroad.
A brief written travelogue shall be sent to the Office for Medicine and Pharmacy within six months after return from the stay abroad.
Full applications received by the Office for Medicine and Pharmacy in a digital form under the address jin.saida@uu.se no later than September 30, 2023 are considered. Submit the application in the form of one single pdf file. Mark the subject line in the email: Viking Olov Björk scholarship.