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            <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino;
              font-size: medium;">To All Postdocs and PIs planning to
              submit an application to the Banting Postdoctoral
              Fellowship:</div>
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              font-size: medium;">The Banting Fellowship Application
              requires a letter of Institutional Commitment.   </div>
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href="http://banting.fellowships-bourses.gc.ca/app-dem/overview-apercu-eng.html"
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            <div>This Institutional letter will be provided by the Vice
              President for Research.   In order to ensure adequate time
              for us to prepare this letter, please submit <font
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                  style="line-height: 30px;">the following materials to
                  Corey Schenck, </span><a
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                  style="line-height: 30px;"> and Debra Martin,
                  <a href="mailto:debra@mit.edu">debra@mit.edu</a>,  </span></font><span
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                line-height: 30px;"><b>by Monday, September 14, 2015.</b></span></div>
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                  <li><font size="3">A very brief email or letter from
                      their prospective supervisor confirming that the
                      applicant will be accepted as a postdoc in his/her
                      lab if awarded a Banting</font></li>
                  <li><span style="font-size: medium;">Supervisor's
                      endorsement statement of synergy between the
                      institution's strategic priorities and applicant's
                      proposed research program</span></li>
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            <div>Eligibility guidelines can be found here:</div>
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href="http://banting.fellowships-bourses.gc.ca/app-dem/elig-adm-eng.html"
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            <div>Final applications are due September 23, 2015.</div>
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            <div>Debra L. Martin, Programs Manager</div>
            <div>MIT</div>
            <div>Vice President for Research Office, Room 11-268</div>
            <div>77 Massachusetts Avenue</div>
            <div>Cambridge, MA  02139</div>
            <div>617-258-0310</div>
            <div><a href="mailto:debra@mit.edu">debra@mit.edu</a></div>
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