Exceptions are made, for people in hard-to-fill jobs or those doing PhD-level scientific or research work.

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Four Fellowships are awarded each year to outstanding women scientists at postdoctoral level to enable promising scientific research in the life or physical sciences.

UNESCO: 01 July 2009

The area houses numerous military facilities, including the Jamraya research centre, designated by Syria as a scientific research centre "in charge of raising our level of resistance and self-defence".

BBC: Damascus military facilities 'hit by Israel rockets'

Given that the conference is fundamentally a research conference, holding this event in such close proximity to the National Institutes of Health and other U.S. Government research facilities will also, hopefully, expand the level of scientific discourse between our scientists and researchers from around the world.

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