The European Hematology Association (EHA)

Research

Is CBTH for me?

CBTH provides the development of computational biology skills for scholars who want to build successful careers in hematology research.

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Applicants must hold a PhD or MD degree (or equivalent) and have a proven scientific track record that demonstrates ambitions to continue a research career in the field of hematology.
  • PhD (or equivalent) applicants must have up to eight years (FTE) of post-doc experience after PhD graduation at the time of the deadline for application.
  • MD (or equivalent) applicants must have up to 12 years (FTE) after graduation at the deadline of the application. MD-PhD applicants or equivalent must have up to 8 years (FTE) after graduation of whatever came last at the time of the application deadline.
  • Exception: PhD students with an expected PhD completion by start of the workshop program are eligible to apply
  • Researchers in hematology should have a good working knowledge of computational biology, including proficiency in coding languages, and an interest in the application of cutting-edge computational biology analysis to further elucidate hematology research questions.
  • Applicants must apply to the program with a putative project and existing set of data, the major aim of which is to use computational approaches in further elucidating hematology-related research questions. This dataset might be public or applicants' created data that could be advanced during the workshop. The project should be the applicant’s own project, and it will form the substrate to be further developed during the program.
  • Applicant projects do not need to be wet lab based (i.e., they do not have to propose to generate a novel dataset, this may already exist) and can be based on either experimental or clinical data, or both.
  • Applicants must have mentor support in their institute, ideally both biological and computational. A supporting letter must be provided by the mentor (Please see section: ‘For mentors of applicants’ for details on mentor support).
  • Applicants should be an EHA member at the time of application and throughout the course of the program. To sign up as an EHA member, please go to https://ehaweb.org/organization/be-part-of-eha/.
  • Institution is defined as the institution where the applicant will be conducting research during the CBTH Program year, NOT the location of a prior mentor or a department head at an institution the applicant may return to later.
  • Applicants must be fluent in English (oral and written).
  • Please see EHA’s policy regarding multiple career development opportunities.

EHA’s Policy on life Events & Eligibility

For each child/pregnancy, a mother can add 18 months to the time since graduation and a father can add 3 months.

Other life events, e.g., military service, disease or lab closure can also extend the period of eligibility but must be justified. If you have doubts regarding your eligibility, please contact the EHA office at training@ehaweb.org.