The International Society of Nephrology (ISN) runs this fellowship, named for Prof. Muhammad Magdi Yaqoob, to send a young nephrologist from a lower-resource country for six months of training at the Royal London Hospital.
ISN’s 2025 launch post adds a second yearly place at an ISN Regional Training Centre; the fellowship page names only the London placement. Fellows return home to apply what they learned.
Benefits & funding
- Six months of hands-on nephrology training at the Royal London Hospital.
- An ISN grant sized to training length and host-country costs, meant to cover or offset the fellow’s travel, accommodation and living (not family); no amount is published.
- Duty: return home within three months and work at the home institution at least three years, or repay the grant.
Eligibility
- Living and working in a low-, lower-middle- or upper-middle-income country (World Bank list).
- Postgraduate internal medicine training completed in your home country.
- ISN full or trainee member; home and host mentors must be full ISN members.
- A public home institution guaranteeing re-employment, a home mentor’s nomination and national (or regional) society endorsement.
- Able to communicate in English, the host country’s language.
- Not already training at the host institution.
Can you apply?
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Application process
- 1Email your CV to Prof. Yaqoob through the ISN Fellowship Coordinator (fellowship@theisn.org), subject “Muhammad Magdi Yaqoob Fellowship”; CVs are taken all year.
- 2If accepted, obtain the host’s acceptance letter with a detailed training plan.
- 3Submit the full application on the general ISN Fellowship portal by the October deadline; every document must be in English.
Program timeline
Any time
CV to the ISN Fellowship Coordinator
2026 portal deadline, now closed (the page states 1 October)
Oct 12, 2026
Results by email
January 2027
Portal reopens
July 2027
Next deadline (ISN dropped the 1 May round from 2026)
Oct 1, 2027