berFrom: Lieve Ongena
Sent: woensdag 30 januari 2008 9:58
To: „Octavian Voiculescu”
Subject: call for outstanding early stage investigators – unique career opportunity

Dear,

We have noticed your excellent research papers recently published in Nature, and on this occasion we are contacting you with the following request :

VIB (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) is a autonomous research institution in Flanders (Belgium, Europe) employing about 1000 scientists and technicians in the field of life sciences. www.vib.be. As part of our internationalization strategy, we have launched a call for outstanding early stage investigators in emerging and interdisciplinary areas within or related to the field of life sciences. Based on your excellent research work, we would like to ask your support to inform potential candidates within your scientific network about this unique career opportunity. Selected candidates will receive 2,0 Mio€ to be spent in a 5 years period, and renewable on a competitive basis.

This call will be published in Cell, Nature and Science in the course of January. The deadline for application is March 31, 2008. More information is available on our website through the following link.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you would have any additional question,

Thanking you in advance for your support to our request, we remain

Sincerely yours,

Lieve Ongena, PhD

Science Policy Manager

VIB

Rijvisschestraat 120

9052 Gent

Belgium

Tel : +3292446611

Fax: +3292446610

www.vib.be