As announced in a joint press release by Pfizer Animal Health and the Morris Animal Foundation, the two organizations have collaborated to launch a Fellowship Program that ‘Partners Nonprofit, Industry and Academia to Provide Solution for the Critical Shortage of Animal Health Scientists’.  The Pfizer Animal Health–Morris Animal Foundation (MAF) Veterinary Fellowship for Advanced Study will provide practicing veterinarians the necessary financial support needed to pursue a veterinary research career. The program commits a minimum of nearly $1.7 million over four years toward a solution to the growing need for trained veterinary scientists.  Practicing veterinarians returning for a PhD will be eligible for the fellowships. Each fellowship recipient will receive $60,000 per year for four years—provided equally by MAF, Pfizer Animal Health and the student’s academic institution—for living expenses and tuition while pursuing advanced veterinary study. Upon receiving their degree, graduates must commit to staying in animal health research for at least four years, where they will help fill a much-needed gap in the veterinary medical field. 

To read the entire press release on the fellowship program see:

http://mediaroom.pfizer.com/news/pfizer/20090901006134/en 

To read more about the sponsors see:

http://www.morrisanimalfoundation.org/