Fellowship : HostSeq Fellowship

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

• Provide postdoctoral trainees in the field of human genetics and bioinformatics with the opportunity to utilize large-scale genomic and clinical data from CGEn’s HostSeq Databank to support their research;
• Generate rapid knowledge using the HostSeq data to contribute to the current COVID-19 response;
• Raise awareness among postdoctoral trainees of the benefits of genomic and health data sharing and best practices, in particular the FAIR principles (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse of digital assets), to promote their integration in their work;
• Build capacity to enhance pandemic preparedness and other genomic medicine applications;
• Apply an open science approach to ensure that research findings and other outputs are made available, freely and openly, to the scientific community to accelerate research translation and benefits; and
• Increase capacity and diversity in health data science leading to the establishment of the required infrastructure to fully realize the benefits of an equitable learning health system, by encouraging a diversity of applicants.