THSTI admission for Ph.D. Programme in Faridabad

THS/RN/29/2016

Direct Admission to the THSTI-JNU PhD Program for winter semester 2016-17

For candidates with medical, life sciences (including biomedical, health, pharmaceutical, nutritional science, public health), veterinary science, engineering, or mathematics background

The broad domains of ongoing research are:  biology of infectious diseases such as dengue, Japanese encephalitis, hepatitis E and tuberculosis, vaccine and anti-viral development. physiology of nutrition and the developing immune system, immune responses in pregnancy and childhood. clinical research and epidemiology focused on maternal and child health , auto-immune diseases, infection and inflammation . understanding disease through the human microbiome, In vitro diagnostics , Therapeutics , Platform technologies: Phage display, Recombinant protein production platforms.  medical devices and implants , mathematical modelling to understand biological problems , biology of metabolic syndrome and disease progression dynamics.

Eligibility: Only those candidates shall be considered for Direct Admission to the Ph.D. programme, who have either— (a) Obtained MBBS or BVSc degree (during 2010 or later) from a recognized University/Institution with one year experience or obtained MD /MVSc. degree/M.Pharm (during 2011 or later; experience is not essential). OR (b) Obtained 2 years M.Phil degree from a recognized University/Institution with FGPA 6 or equivalent (with dissertation/seminar/Viva). OR (c) at least two years research experience after Master's degree in reputed institutions with one first authored research publication in peer-reviewed journals (included PubMed; NOT review articles or popular articles or papers in the proceedings). In addition, they should have obtained Master’s Degree with FGPA 6.0 in 10 point scale or comparable standard where the grading is based on system other than 10 point scale.

(d) The institute reserves the right to adopt additional criteria for shortlisting of the applications. Selection procedure: Applicants fulfilling the above essential criteria and having their own fellowship and those shortlisted based on the above mentioned eligibility criteria will be invited for the interview.

Fellowship: Only students with their own fellowship for direct admission to the PhD program will be considered.

No. of seats: A total of 6 candidates may be selected, if found suitable. The number of total seats for the direct PhD program has been restricted to 20% of the total intake of 30 seats which may decrease as per the actual requirement at the time of selection.

Reservations: 27% seats for OBC (non-creamy layer) (2 seats), 15% of seats for SC (1 seat) are reserved for candidates belonging to these categories.

Application fee: Non-refundable application fee of Rs. 500 for General and OBC candidates, and Rs. 250 for SC/ST/PWD candidates should be paid by bank draft in favor of Translational Health Science and Technology Institute payable at Gurgaon. Call for THSTI interview: Names of candidates shortlisted for the THSTI interview shall be displayed on THSTI website by 30th November 2016