The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research awards fellowships to suitably qualified individuals for postdoctoral studies in the medical and related sciences bearing on cancer. The fund requires a statement from you, as proposed sponsor, indicating your acceptance of the applicant and outlining plans for the fellowship as they bear on the applicant’s present and future scientific career. Your comments will be helpful to the Board of Scientific Advisers in evaluating this application, and they will, of course, be held in strict confidence.

The Board of Scientific Advisers would appreciate if the sponsor, as part of this statement, would indicate the total number of postdoctoral associates and graduate students in his or her laboratory and would list not more than five publications from the laboratory in the general area of research proposed by the applicant.