The MCDC1 proposal contained provision for about 10 ‘re-entry’, first post-doctoral, fellowships of a value of up to $150,000 open to successful MCDC PhD students on a competitive basis, along the lines adopted for the GMP programme. The form that these awards might take was considered at a meeting of the MCDC Steering Committee in London in May 2012 and again extensively by both the MCDC Steering and Advisory Committees during the MCDC meeting held in Atlanta in November 2012.