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Dt: 20th Nov2009 The Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance. Hyderabad 500034, India Ref: 048218 Sub: Early Career Fellowship application reg. cover letter Dear Sir/Madam, I am an enthusiastic applicant of the early career fellowship program. I am pursuing my doctoral studies on the structure function aspects and in vivo significance of heteropolymer expression alpha-crystallin, a small heat shock protein (sHsp) in the eye lens. I will be submitting my thesis in a month from now. During my doctoral studies I was fascinated by this small heat shock protein alphacrystallin on its ability to protect client proteins under various stress conditions and I got interested to understand the small heat shock proteins and their role in the disease pathogenesis bearing in mind the significant role of sHsp in vital cellular processes. In this regard, I propose to submit an early career fellowship full application entitled “Understanding the role of small heat shock proteins in diabetic complications.” Dr. G Bhanuprakash Reddy, Scientist, National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, India, has consented to be my post-doctoral mentor. I have completed and submitted my application through the eGrants and I understand that our administration has submitted the grant to The Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance. Kindly acknowledge the receipt of the full application. Hope your kind offices would find this proposal fitting for an approval. Sincerely,

Pasumarthi NBS Srinivas. Lab # 215, Biochemistry Divn, National Institute of Nutrition Jamai-Osmania PO, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500604, India