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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
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino;
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requires a letter of Institutional Commitment. </div>
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style="line-height: 19px;"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://banting.fellowships-bourses.gc.ca/app-dem/overview-apercu-eng.html">http://banting.fellowships-bourses.gc.ca/app-dem/overview-apercu-eng.html</a></a></div>
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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
style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="3"><span
style="line-height: 30px;">the following materials to
Corey Schenck, </span><a
href="mailto:cschenck@mit.edu" style="color: rgb(0, 0,
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line-height: 30px;"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:cschenck@mit.edu">cschenck@mit.edu</a></a><span
style="line-height: 30px;"> and Debra Martin,
<a href="mailto:debra@mit.edu">debra@mit.edu</a>, </span></font><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino;
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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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<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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