A total of 120 Fellowships would be awarded for work in the field of biomedical sciences with emphasis on Life Sciences (like microbiology, physiology, molecular biology, genetics, human biology, bioinformatics, biotechnology, biochemistry, biophysics, immunology, zoology, Environment Science, botany, veterinary sciences, bio-informatics etc.)
Every year the application forms notification published in newspaper during March/April and also on the website: http://icmr.nic.in/jrf.htm.

The entrance examination is usually held in the first/second week of July.