Students who are wishing to apply for a study in South African may apply MSc Scholarship which is providing by the South African Medical Research Council.
This funded education is available for South African Medical Research Council, Parow, Cape Town citizens who want to start their MSc study.
The scope of the organization’s research projects includes tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, cardiovascular and non-communicable diseases, gender and health, and alcohol and other drug abuse.
Application Deadline: February 12, 2020
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible Countries: Domestic students are eligible to apply.
Acceptable Course or Subjects: The sponsorship will be awarded to study in Master’s Degree offered by the university.
Admissible Criteria: Students are eligible to apply for this study grant.
- Applications are invited for an NRF-Funded MSc scholarship which forms part of the project “Developing an advanced cell culture model for pancreatic beta cells”.
- The primary objective of the MSc study will be to determine the differential physiological response(s) of 2D and 3D cultured pancreatic beta cells to nutritional stimuli (i.e. glucose, long- and short-chain fatty acids, amino acids).
- Advanced 3D culture will be used to produce functional pseudo-islet clusters that mimic normal pancreatic beta-cell physiology and are able to respond to nutritional stimuli relevant to the development of diabetic pathology.
- The successful applicants will have the opportunity to work with a dynamic research group within the Biomedical Research and Innovation Platform, South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) and will conduct research that is relevant in South Africa using state-of-the-art technologies.
