The IADVL Academy, under the aegis of the IADVL EC, has instituted 20 Postgraduate Thesis grants of Rs 50,000 each as a Presidential project.

Applications, using the attached form, are invited for grant of financial assistance for PG theses to cover costs incurred for consumables, private laboratory investigations and contingencies. No allowance shall be permitted for instruments, patient allowance or manpower requirement. Primarily isolated drug trials shall not be recommended.The infrastructure required for the proposed thesis study should be available at the institute and the planned investigations already standardized.

Blinded applications will be evaluated by the jury (comprising of members of the PG Thesis Committee and IADVL SIG Dermatology Clinical Trials), primarily on the basis of novelty and strong methodology.

The selected applicants will need to obtain Ethics Committee approval and register with the Clinical Trials Registry (for drug trials and interventional studies) within 3 months of selection. They will also have to submit a paper, based on the thesis, for presentation in DERMACON and for publication within one and a half years of completion of the thesis.

Any queries can be directed to iadvlacademy@gmail.com with a copy to iadvlsecgen2016@gmail.com.

Please apply online at http://ptg2017.healthconnectdigital.com/ by 30th September 2017 (applications will be accepted from 1st August, 2017).