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The Institute for Respiratory Health supports research in all areas of respiratory disease and is committed to attracting exceptional clinicians, allied health professionals and scientists to undertake research studies with a view to building future research careers focusing on cystic fibrosis (CF).

With this in mind, the Institute and the Conquer Cystic Fibrosis Committee, have established postgraduate research scholarships in order to attract these students to the WA programme and to foster careers in CF research.

The scholarships are available in the following areas:

• Conquer Cystic Fibrosis Advanced Clinical PhD Fellowship
• Conquer Cystic Fibrosis Allied Health Professional PhD Scholarship
• Conquer Cystic Fibrosis Scientist PhD Scholarship

Successful applicants will join the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Cystic Fibrosis Multi-Disciplinary Team consisting of medical and allied health professionals. This team has a strong and unique research platform of both clinical and laboratory research across multiple disciplines.

The successful scholarship recipients will be up-skilled in the area of CF for the next 3 years to ensure they are experienced, qualified and highly skilled. They will become an integral part of the hospital’s CF team on completion of their training.

Applications are now open and close 4.00 pm, Friday 4th March 2016.

Information and the application packs are available online.