Office of Cancer Health Disparities Research at the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center:  We are investing in promising junior, mid-career, senior, and post-doctoral researchers to advance knowledge of cancer health disparities. We are actively recruiting for fully funded positions at the Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, AZ, and Jacksonville, FL sites; travel among the three Mayo sites (including Rochester, MN) is supported. The new Office of Cancer Health Disparities Research is a part of the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center. Top-notch, self-starting junior as well as mid-career and senior researchers will contribute to building the office.  It could be an exciting and supportive growth opportunity.  If interested, contact:  Sherri Sheinfeld Gorin, Ph.D.; Professor (Endowed) of Health Sciences; Director, Office of Cancer Health Disparities Research; Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale; 13400 East Shea Boulevard; MCCRB 3-055; Scottsdale, AZ 85259; 480-301-4462.

The University of Michigan is excited to announce an NIH-funded Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) designed to help underrepresented students who want to further prepare for application to top-ranked Ph.D. programs in the biological and biomedical sciences. (participants will begin July 1, 2009).  In short:  Michigan PREP web site: www.med.umich.edu/prep; application deadline: April 16, 2009; Michigan PREP students begin: July 1, 2009; 150 faculty mentors available across the UM campus; admitted PREP students receive a full tuition scholarship, salary, and benefits including health and dental insurance. In addition to research, PREP students have opportunities to participate in a variety of activities designed to help prepare them for graduate school applications.  If you have any questions, please contact the PREP program at m-prep@umich.edu or 734-647-7005.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute invites applications from biochemists, biologists, chemists, computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians, neurobiologists and physicists at all career stages, who are passionate in their pursuit of important problems in basic scientific and technical research.  The next applications dates are July 15 and December 15, 2009.  Scientists are supported by outstanding shared resources within a unique campus (Janelia Farm) less than an hour from Washington, DC.  For more information and to submit an application:  www.hhmi.org/ref/janelia/sci