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2013 Stanford-India Biodesign (SIB) Fellowship Accepting Applications

Posted by on 20 April, 2012 in ALL POSTS, Fellowships, Opportunities
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What: Stanford-India Biodesign (SIB Fellowship)

Where: New Delhi and Palo Alto, CA

Application Deadline & Link: May 18th, 2012; submit application

Length of Fellowship: 1-year (a second year may be granted depending on project scope)

The goal of this programme, which launched in 2007, is to train the next generation of biomedical technology innovators in India. This highly competitive programme is directed to Indian citizens who have an interest in the invention and early-stage development of new biomedical technologies. The SIB Fellowship Programme is centred at Stanford and in New Delhi and administered as a collaboration between Stanford University, the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in partnership with the Indo-US Science & Technology Forum (IUSSTF).

Fellows receive tuition, stipend support, and international travel arrangements. Over the course of the programme, approximately half of the fellows’ time will be spent at Stanford University and the other half in India. Fellows work in a multidisciplinary team joining other young innovators with a combination of engineering, medical and business backgrounds.

 


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Vinay Ganti

Vinay is in his fourth year of a four year JD/MBA program at the New York University School of Law and the Leonard B. Stern School of Business in New York City. Prior to coming to New York, Vinay graduated from Brown University, worked in technology transfer as a consultant and also founded a financial literacy program for underprivileged youth. Currently, Vinay is an InSITE Fellow for Venture Capital and Innovation. His primary interests are in the social venture capital investing space and its role in transforming micro-businesses into globally competitive SMEs. After school, Vinay wants to create novel ways to provide clean energy & water to the world’s poor.

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