TWAS (the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, Italy) has recently signed new collaboration fellowship agreements with two institutions in Pakistan.

These new programmes will offer over 30 new fellowships to meritorious scientists from the developing world and are due to start in 2007.

The institutions in Pakistan are

• The International Centre for Chemical Sciences (ICCS), Karachi, Pakistan will offer postgraduate and postdoctoral fellowships in the fields of Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology and Physical Sciences which will be tenable at the H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry and the Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine & Drug Research.

Further detail can be obtained from the website of www.iccs.edu

• The National Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology (CEMB), Lahore, Pakistan will also offer both postgraduate and postdoctoral fellowships in molecular biology and molecular genetics tenable at their centre and laboratories.

Further detail can be obtained from the website of www.cemb.edu.pk