Limited Submissions - Private Foundations

American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) - Clinical and Translational Research Awards in Liver Disease

Description: The AASLD Clinical and Translational Research Awards in Liver Diseases are intended to foster career development for individuals performing clinical and/or translational research in a liver-related area and who have shown commitment to excellence at an early stage of their research study. The awards ensure that a significant portion of young investigators’ time is protected for research, with an overall objective of enabling young investigators to develop independent and productive research careers in liver disease.

One award of $150,000 will be provided over two years ($75,000 per year). Money may be used for salary support or for technical support/laboratory supplies for the investigator: no indirect costs are provided. It is expected that additional funds are available to the candidate in order to carry out the proposed research. Candidates will be evaluated based upon their background, their commitment to a research career, the strength of their research project and the environment in which they will conduct this project.

Because each sponsoring institution may submit only one application, UK will hold an internal competition. Individuals interested in submitting an application should send the following information to the Office of the Vice President for Research at vpr@email.uky.edu and a copy to his or her Associate Dean for Research by Thursday, December 3, 2009:

• Candidate’s Biosketch (4-pages maximum)
• Research Summary (1-page maximum)
• Candidate’s Statement (1-page maximum): describe the benefits of this award to your research career and, where applicable, the impact the research preceptor will have on your research development.

Link to Full Announcement: http://www.aasld.org/research/awards/Pages/ClinicalandTranslationalResearchAwards.aspx

An internal panel will review applications and will select UK's nominee. The selected individual will be notified in time to prepare a full proposal by the February 12, 2010 deadline.

Questions about the submission process may be sent to Ms. Annette Evans in the Office of the Vice President for Research (alevan4@email.uky.edu or 257-1663.)

American Geriatrics Society (AGS) - Dennis W. Jahnigen Career Development Scholars Awards

Deadline: December 9, 2008

The Jahnigen Career Development Awards Scholars Program addresses the urgent need to create a structure for developing leaders in geriatrics in academic surgery and related medical specialties. In time it is hoped that this group of committed Jahnigen faculty will lead an advance in the way each discipline cares for older patients by improving the knowledge base, educational activities and clinical care and by participating in efforts to increase understanding of the geriatric aspects of their specialties on the national and local level. The Jahnigen Awards Program offers two-year career development awards to support junior faculty in targeted specialties (see below). The award allows individuals to initiate and ultimately sustain a career in research and education in the geriatrics aspects of their discipline.

Each grant will provide two-year support of $75,000 per year for salary and fringe benefits and/or the costs of doing research. However, each scholar's institution must provide a minimum match of $25,000 per year. Up to ten awards will be given in 2009.

Eligible candidates must meet the following criteria:

• Be a physician who is a US citizen or permanent resident
• Be certified or board eligible to practice on one of the following targeted specialties:
• Anesthesiology
• Emergency medicine
• General surgery
• Gynecology
• Ophthalmology
• Orthopedic surgery
• Otolaryngology
• Physical medicine and rehabilitation
• Thoracic surgery
• Urology
• Have completed his/her training (residency and/or fellowship) on or after June 30, 1999

Nominations are to be made by the individual's departmental chair. Departments may submit one application; institutions may submit more than one application.

For additional information, please see http://www.americangeriatrics.org/specialists/jahnigen/apply.

Contact Information: Elizabeth Haranas, Project Coordinator
American Geriatrics Society
350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 801
New York, NY 10118
Phone: 212-308-1414
Email: eharanas@americangeriatrics.org

American Geriatrics Society (AGS) - Hartford Geriatrics Health Outcomes Research Scholars Awards Program

Sponsored by The John A. Hartford Foundation, in collaboration with the AGS Foundation for Health in Aging, the Hartford Geriatrics Health Outcomes Research Scholars Awards Program, supports physician-scientists committed to improving the health care of older adults during the critical transition from junior faculty to independent researcher.

For the purposes of this grant, outcomes research is defined as the study of functional status, impairments, perceptions, social opportunities, and health services utilization that are influenced by disease, injury, treatment, or health policy, including etiology, diagnosis, and intervention. Research must be focused on older adults and may address clinical strategies and effectiveness, innovative outcomes measures, and quality of life. Hartford Outcomes Scholars must have a research sponsor who should have a strong background in training and outcomes research, as well as expertise and interest in the outcomes research that is being proposed.

Four recipients, chosen by a Selection Committee comprised of nationally prominent academic physicians, will receive a $200,000 grant over a two-year period to perform studies in outcomes research topics that are focused on the improved care of older adults. Research findings are presented at the American Geriatrics Society Annual Scientific Meeting at the conclusion of the recipient’s grant.

The applicant must obtain permission from the dean of his or her medical school to apply for this award. The applicant must have a written commitment from his or home institution, and be committed to continue involvement throughout the period of the project award. In addition to the primary sponsor, applicants may also collaborate with an on-site or off-site secondary sponsor who has expertise in the proposed area or departmental chair or division chief that 75 percent of the applicant's time will be devoted to research. Collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of investigators is encouraged.

For more information see: http://www.healthinaging.org/hartford/

American Italian Cancer Foundation - Pancreatic Cancer Research Initiative

The American Italian Cancer Foundation (AICF) has launched a new Pancreatic Cancer Research Initiative (PCRI). Beginning in 2009, scientific researchers from the United States, Italy, and other parts of Europe will be eligible to receive funding for projects of up to three years in basic, translational, or genetic research as it applies to pancreatic cancer. PCRI grants will fund research that shows great promise for translating knowledge gained to prevention or new treatments and, ultimately, for prolonging and enhancing the life of pancreatic cancer patients. $225,000 will be available in spring 2009 for one or more awards.

Applicants are encouraged to collaborate with one or more research institutions in Italy or other members of the European Union. Applications that include a collaborative aspect will be given special consideration, as will genetic research projects in pancreatic cancer that will be conducted in Italy.

For additional information, see http://www.americanitaliancancer.org/Pancreatic_Cancer_Research_Initiative/

Most recent internal deadline: March 10, 2009.

Most recent external deadline: April 1, 2009.

American Legacy Foundation - Legacy Innovative Grants

Through the Legacy Innovative Grants (LIG), the American Legacy Foundation supports projects that advance creative solutions to the challenged caused by tobacco use in America. Previously known as the Small Innovative Grants Program, Legacy created innovative Grants to enable organizations to pilot new projects, new ideas or new approaches, based on sound principles of tobacco control.

Twice each year, Legacy supports a limited number of grants under this program. Legacy provides up to $100,000 for the first year of funding. During the initial grant year, grantees may apply for a second year of funding for up to 50% of the amount awarded in the first year. While match is encouraged but not required for the first year of funding, grantees must provide a 1:1 cash match for second year funding. Legacy accepts applications for second-year funding in the last quarter of the first grant year, by invitation only.

Link to Full Announcement: http://www.americanlegacy.org/1710.aspx

Most recent internal deadline: January 13, 2009.

Most recent external deadline: January 16, 2009.

American Legacy Foundation - Small Innovative Grants Program to Reduce Tobacco Use

Through the Small Innovative Grants Program, the American Legacy Foundation supports projects that advance creative, promising solutions based on sound principles of tobacco control to remedy the harm caused by tobacco use in America. Legacy created the Small Innovative Grants Program to seed new projects or enable an organization to pilot a new idea or approach.

Twice a year, Legacy supports a limited number of grants under this program. Legacy issues renewable grants for up to $100,000 each for the first year of funding. Upon invitation, grantees may apply for a second year of funding for up to 50 percent of the amount awarded in the first year. Grantees must provide a 1:1 cash match for second-year funding. A match is encouraged but not required for the first year of funding.

Link to Full Announcement and guidelines:  http://www.americanlegacy.org/1710.aspx

Most recent internal deadline: May 15, 2008.

Most recent external deadline: May 23, 2008. 

Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication - Baskett Mosse Award for Faculty Development

Deadline: April 1, 2009

The Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication (AEJMC) is accepting applications for the 19th annual Baskett Mosse Award for Faculty Development. The award recognizes an outstanding young or midcareer faculty member in journalism or mass communication. Its recipient is awarded a stipend to be used toward work on a development or enrichment activity in any appropriate aspect of teaching, research or public service.

No more than two applications from the same program will be accepted the same year. If there are more than two potential applications from a program, the administrative head must rule on which application to submit.

For more information, see http://aejmc.org/_calls/baskettmosse.php.

NOTE: The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation will not be accepting applications for the Beckman Young Investigators Program until further notice and will not be accepting applications at all in 2009.

Beckman Foundation, Arnold and Mabel: Young Investigators Program

The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation makes grants to non-profit research institutions to promote research in chemistry and the life sciences, broadly interpreted, and particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments and materials that will open up new avenues of research in science. The Beckman Young Investigator (BYI) Program is intended to provide research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of academic careers in the chemical and life sciences.  Projects should show promise for contributing to significant advances in the research fields of interest to the Foundation. They should represent innovative departures in research rather than extensions or expansions of existing programs. Proposed research that cuts across traditional boundaries of scientific disciplines is encouraged

To be eligible, an applicant should not have completed more than three full years in his or her tenure-track or other comparable independent research appointment. Regardless of eligibility under this rule, no individual may apply for a BYI Award more than three times. Candidates must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States at the time of application.

Projects are normally funded for a period of three years. Grants are normally in the range of $300,000 over the term of the project. The Foundation does not provide for overhead or for indirect costs.

For more information including a list of previous recipients, see the Beckman Foundation’s website at: http://www.beckman-foundation.com/byi.html.

Most recent internal deadline: August 8, 2008.

Most recent external deadline: October 1, 2008.

Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awards for Medical Scientists

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awards for Medical Scientists provides five-year $700,000 awards to bridge advanced postdoctoral/fellowship training and the early years of faculty service.  Candidates must hold an MD, DVM, DDS, PharmD or equivalent clinical degree.  The proposed research project must be in the area of basic biomedical, disease oriented, translational, or molecular, genetic, or pharmacological epidemiology research.  Proposals that are in the area of epidemiology should contact BWF to determine eligibility; proposals in health services research or involving large scale clinical trials are ineligible; BWF encourages proposals in reproductive science.

Candidates must be a clinical fellow, resident, instructor (non-tenure track), or a postdoctoral researcher and have at least two years of research experience at the time of application.  Candidates who hold a junior faculty appointment (lecturer, instructor, assistant professor-non tenure track) may be eligible if they have been in a faculty position for two years or less at the time of application.  Candidates must not be more than 120 months past their most recent doctorate.  During the award period, at least 75 percent of the awardee's time must be devoted to research-related activities.  Candidates must be citizens or permanent residents of the US or Canada at the time of application.

A detailed description of the Career Awards for Medical Scientists program and complete guidelines for the application are available at <http://www.bwfund.org/programs/CAMS/cams_apply.html>.

The University of Kentucky may nominate up to five candidates.  If a woman or underrepresented minority (i.e., African American, Hispanic, or Native American) is nominated within the initial five candidates, a sixth candidate may be nominated provided that candidate is a woman or underrepresented minority.  Candidates must be nominated by their dean or department chair.

Most recent internal deadline: August 21, 2008. 

Most recent external deadline: October 1, 2008.

Burroughs Wellcome Fund - Career Awards at the Scientific Interface (CASI)

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) Career Awards at the Scientific Interface (CASI) are intended to foster the early career development of postdoctoral scientists with backgrounds in the physical/computational sciences whose work addresses biological questions and who are dedicated to pursuing a career in academic research. Candidates must hold a Ph.D. in the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, computer science, statistics, or engineering or must demonstrate significant expertise in one of these areas as evidenced by publications or advanced course work. The awards provide up to $500,000 in support over five years to bridge advanced postdoctoral training and the first three years of a future faculty appointment, presumably at a different institution.

The University of Kentucky may nominate up to two candidates for the award. However, to encourage applications from women, institutions that nominate a female candidate will be allowed three nominations. In addition, to encourage applications from members of underrepresented minority groups, institutions may have single additional nomination if they nominate an African-American, Hispanic, or Native American candidate. No more than one of an institution's nominees may be a temporary resident of the U.S.

Candidates must have completed at least 12 months but not more than 48 months of postdoctoral research at the time of application. They cannot hold nor have accepted, either in writing or verbally, a faculty appointment as a tenure-track assistant professor at the time of application. Eligible applicants include: U.S. and Canadian citizens; non-citizen Permanent Residents of the U.S. and Canada with certification by the nominating institution; and temporary residents as long as the nominating institution can certify that the applicant's visa will allow him/her to remain in the U.S. long enough for him/her to be productive on the project.

A detailed description of the CASI program and complete guidelines for the application are available online at http://www.bwfund.org/programs/interfaces/index.html.

Most recent internal deadline: March 4, 2008.

Most recent external deadline: April 15, 2008.

Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) Clinical Scientist Awards in Translational Research

Clinical Scientist Awards in Translational Research provide $750,000 over a period of five years ($150,000 per year). BWF will make up to 10 awards for the 2009 series. The program's goal is to foster the development and productivity of established independent physician-scientists who will strengthen translational research through their own studies as well as by mentoring physician-scientist trainees. Theawards are intended to give recipients the freedom and flexibility to explore fundamental scientific questions, to apply the resulting knowledge at the bedside, and to bring insights from the clinical setting back to the laboratory for further exploration. BWF hopes these efforts will lead to a better understanding of disease mechanisms and to new methods of diagnosing, treating, and preventing disease. BWF is particularly interested in supporting investigators who will bring novel ideas and new approaches to translational research.

Candidates must

• have an MD or MD-PhD degree and hold an appointment or joint appointment in a subspecialty of clinical medicine.
• be academic investigators at the assistant professor or early associate professor level (preferably no more than two years after promotion), holding a tenure-track or equivalent position, at the time of application. Individuals holding the rank of professor are ineligible.
• present evidence of having established an independent research career (this is not a "new investigator" award). Successful candidates in the past have had NIH R01 funding and a track record of independent publications.
•  hold a current license to practice medicine in the US or Canada.
•  be citizens or permanent residents of the US or Canada at the time of application.

Guidelines and additional information about the program are available at: http://www.bwfund.org/programs/translational/clinical_scientists_main.html

Most recent internal deadline: August 13, 2008.

Most recent external deadline: October 1, 2008.

Burroughs Wellcome Fund: Investigators in Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease

This program provides up to 14 awards, each $400,000 over five years, to accomplished assistant professors to study the pathogenesis of infectious disease at its most fundamental level—the points where human and microbial systems connect. The program supports research that sheds light on overarching problems in this encounter: how colonization, infection, commensalism, and other relationships play out at levels ranging from molecular interactions to systemic ones.

Work supported will be efforts that have the potential to significantly advance the understanding of how microbes and the human system interact especially in the context of infection. Biochemical, pharmacological, molecular, genetic, immunologic, and other approaches are all appropriate for support by the program.

For additional information, see the following website: http://www.bwfund.org/programs/infectious_disease/pathogenesis_main.html.

Most recent internal deadline: October 20, 2006.

Most recent external deadline: November 1, 2006.

Carnegie Corporation of New York

Since 1999, the Carnegie Scholars Program has been supporting individual scholars to conduct research that extends the boundaries of its grantmaking priorities. For the next few years, the Scholars Program will focus on supporting scholars whose research relates to intellectual and policy developments in Islam and Muslim communities. The overall aim is to build a critical mass of thoughtful and original scholarship in order to add to our fund of knowledge regarding Islam as a religion as well as the cultures and civilizations of Muslim societies and communities, both in the United States and abroad. Recognizing that in order for ideas to influence society they must be widely communicated to a variety of audiences, the fellowship emphasizes the communication of scholarly research beyond the academic community to policymakers and the public. The program annually awards up to 20 fellowships for a period of one to two years and for a maximum amount of $100,000. At the end of the fellowship period, Scholars will submit a written report along with books or manuscripts prepared as a result of the Corporation’s support.

http://www.carnegie.org/sub/program/scholars.html

An Internal Competition will be announced when the nomination request is received for this year.

Dana Foundation, Charles A. - Brain and Immuno-Imaging Program

Eligibility:

Each U.S. medical school dean, and the presidents of the few selected biomedical research institutions that have been invited by letter, may nominate a total of two applicants, one for Track A, conventional brain imaging research; and, one application for Track B, studies using cellular and molecular imaging techniques alone or in combination with conventional imaging techniques. To be considered under this Program, each application must be countersigned by the medical school dean or invited biomedical institution’s president. 

http://www.dana.org/grants/imaging/default.aspx

Dana Foundation, Charles A. - Neuroimmunology Program

The Dana Foundation is soliciting preliminary proposals for its Neuroimmunology program. This program has been redesigned tofocus on brain infections and cancers. Specifically, studies are sought in three areas: (1) immune-based therapies for primary brain tumors, and for metastases to the brain of other cancers; (2) immune responses to infections in the brain, such as viral encephalitis, meningitis, cerebral malaria, and prion diseases, and (3) how the immune system affects the brain and how the brain modifies immune function. Projects should be feasible to complete within the limit of $200,000 total over a period of up to three years. Support is focused primarily on providing research support to faculty researchers early in their career, at the assistant professor level, or early in their associate professor career. Each U.S. medical school dean, and each president of the few selected biomedical research institutions that have been invited by letter, may nominate one proposal. Investigators at institutions that are affiliated with a medical school are eligible to apply only through their affiliated medical school, by submitting an application to the medical school dean. Preliminary proposals are due April 1, 2008. For more information, visit: http://www.dana.org/grants/detail.aspx?id=4522

Dreyfus, Camille and Henry - New Faculty Awards Program

The Dreyfus New Faculty Awards Program provides unrestricted research grants of $50,000 to institutions that offer a doctorate in chemistry, chemical engineering or biochemistry in support of faculty who start their first full-time tenure-track appointments in 2008. Allowable costs include student research stipends, scientific equipment, and other research needs. About 10 awards of $50,000 are made each year.

Additional information on the program, including a list of previous recipients, is available at http://www.dreyfus.org/nf.shtml.

Most recent internal deadline: March 24, 2008.

Most recent external deadline: May 8, 2008.

Dreyfus, Camille and Henry- Teacher-Scholar Award

The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program supports the research and teaching careers of talented young faculty in the chemical sciences. The program provides discretionary funding to faculty at an early stage in their careers. Criteria for selection include an independent body of scholarship attained within the first five years of their appointment as independent researchers, and a demonstrated commitment to education, signaling the promise of continuing outstanding contributions to both research and teaching. The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program provides an unrestricted research grant of $75,000.

The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program is open to academic institutions in the States, Districts, and Territories of the United States of America that grant a bachelor's or higher degree in the chemical sciences, including biochemistry, materials chemistry, and chemical engineering. Nominees must hold a full-time tenure-track academic appointment, and are normally expected to have been appointed no earlier than mid-year 2004. Awardees are from Ph.D. granting departments in which scholarly research is a principal activity. Undergraduate education is an important component of the nominee's activities.

For more information, see http://www.dreyfus.org/awards/camille_dreyfus_teacher_award.shtml

Because each institution may submit only one Camille Dreyfus nomination annually, UK will hold an internal competition. Individuals interested in submitting an application should send the following information electronically to the Office of the Vice President for Research at vpr@email.uky.edu and a copy to his or her Associate Dean for Research by Tuesday, December 8, 2009:

• Name, Department, and Year of Appointment
• CV
• A summary description of the nominee's research accomplishments as an independent faculty member, and a description of research plans (2-pages)
• A statement of the nominee's dedication to education in the chemical sciences (1-page).

An internal panel will review applications and will select UK's nominee. The selected individual will be notified in time to prepare a full proposal by the February 11, 2010 deadline. 

Questions about the submission process may be sent to Ms. Annette Evans in the Office of the Vice President for Research (alevan4@email.uky.edu or 257-1663).

Duke, Doris - Clinical Scientist Development Award

The Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award provides grants to junior physician-scientists to facilitate their transition to independent clinical research careers.

The foundation plans to award up to 14 three-year grants in 2010 of $125,000 per year in direct costs and $10,000 per year in indirect costs to junior faculty level physician-scientists conducting clinical research in any disease area.

Applicants must:

• Be a physician-scientist conducting clinical research in any disease area;
• Have received an M.D. or a foreign equivalent from an accredited institution;
• Be working in a U.S. degree-granting institution, but do not have to be a U.S. citizen;
• Have a full-time faculty level position not higher than the Assistant Professor level; and
• Have been appointed to their first full-time faculty level position between January 1, 2005 and January 1, 2010. (All full-time post-fellowship Instructor level positions will be considered full-time faculty level appointments).

Note: For the purposes of this award program, clinical research is defined as research conducted with human subjects with direct application to the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, or cure of any human disease. Experiments that utilize animals or primary tissues derived from animals will not be supported by this program.

An award will not be made if, prior to the commencement of this award, the applicant has been or becomes the principal investigator on a National Institutes of Health, peer-reviewed, R01 research grant and/or the principal investigator on a research project that is part of a P01 program project or a P50 center grant. Applicants are allowed to hold a National Institutes of Health K series award or other career development award at the same time as the CSDA grant. However, applicants must propose distinct and different research aims in their CSDA application and there should be no scientific overlap.

Each U.S. accredited, degree-granting institution may nominate up to two candidates. The Foundation strongly encourages institutions to nominate women and under-represented minorities in medicine, including Blacks or African Americans, Hispanics or Latinos, American Indians, Alaskan Natives, and Native Hawaiians.

Nominations are due by 5pm EST on November 17, 2009. Full proposals are due December 22, 2009.

Program website: http://www.ddcf.org/page.asp?pageId=291

Duke, Doris - Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award

The Doris Duke Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award (DCSA) recognizes and supports outstanding mid-career physician-scientists who are engaged in applying the latest biomedical advances to the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and cure of disease. The award provides funds to conduct translational clinical research as well as support and mentor junior clinical researchers working in the awardee's laboratory. In 2008, up to five grants of $1.5 million each will be awarded to mid-career physician-scientists conducting translational clinical research in any disease area. Awards must be used over at least a five-year period.

This program is intended to support physician-scientists who are recognized leaders in their fields and who have well-established translational research programs. All nominees must:
1) Be a physician-scientist with an established translational clinical research program in any disease area;
2) Have received an M.D. or a foreign equivalent from an accredited institution;
3) Be working in a U.S. degree-granting institution but do not have to be a U.S. citizen;
4) Have a full-time university faculty appointment at least at the level of Associate Professor or its equivalent as of January 1, 2008;
4) Have been appointed to their first full-time faculty-level position no earlier than January 1, 1993. (All full-time post-fellowship Instructor-level positions will be considered full-time faculty-level appointments.)
Note: For the purposes of this award program, clinical research is defined as research conducted with human subjects with direct application to the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, or cure of any human disease. Experiments that utilize animals or primary tissues derived from animals are not eligible for support through this award program.

Research and Mentoring Requirements: The DCSA is intended to support an original clinical research project that does not overlap projects funded by other sources of support. At least 30% of the total effort must be dedicated to the work proposed in the application. Each Distinguished Clinical Scientist must have a proven track record as an outstanding mentor to junior clinical investigators, including medical students, fellows, and junior faculty members. The candidate must describe his/her mentoring history and experience and propose a mentoring plan for the period of the award. A majority of mentees to be supported by the DCSA should be working on or hold an M.D. degree.

Guidelines and additional information on this program are available at: http://www.ddcf.org/page.asp?pageId=297

Most recent internal deadline: December 3, 2007.

Most recent external deadline: January 23, 2008.

Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar Award in Aging

The University of Kentucky has been invited to nominate two candidates for the Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar Award in Aging.  The objective of this award is to support new investigators of outstanding promise in the basic biological sciences relevant to understanding lifespan development processes and age-related diseases and disabilities.  The award provides $100,000 per year for a four year period to enable new investigators to become established in the field of aging. 

Eligible candidates are investigators who are in the first three (3) years of their research career following their post-doctoral fellowship experience.  As of March 1, 2010, nominees must hold regular full time appointments (tenure or non-tenure) on the faculty of the sponsoring institution and they must not have been in such an appointment, at the sponsoring institution or other institution(s), for more than three years as of July 15, 2010, i.e. the appointment having been made no earlier than July 15, 2007.  Time spent in clinical internships, post-doctoral training, residencies, or in work toward board certification does not count as part of the three-year limit.

Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholars may hold one similar award from a private source concurrently for up to one year.  The guidelines include a list of conflicting career development or new faculty awards as examples.  New Scholar Awards will only be made for the full four-year term.  If a conflicting award is accepted prior to the New Scholar Award, this must be resolved by either declining the Ellison Medical Foundation award or arranging to terminate the conflicting award within one year.

Nominees for the New Scholars Award are expected to have great promise as potential leaders of biomedical science with relevance to aging. Each nominee's potential for scientific innovation, leadership, and relevance to aging will be evaluated by the Ellison Medical Foundation’s Aging Review Group and the Scientific Advisory Board, based upon the nominee's research proposal, scientific contributions to date, and the reference statements provided by those who know the nominee and his/her work well. The quality and relevance of the nominee's publications and the importance to aging of the nominee's proposed research will be significant factors in the evaluation process.  Depending upon the number of nominations submitted and the qualifications of the nominees, up to 25 scholars will be selected.

See the following website for information about the goals and objectives of the Aging Program, detailed guidelines for the New Scholars Program, and lists of previously funded New Scholars: http://www.ellisonfoundation.org/adsp.jsp?key=10aging_about

UK has established an internal selection process.  Eligible faculty interested in submitting an application should send the following information electronically to the Office of the Vice President for Research at vpr@email.uky.edu and a copy to their Associate Dean for Research by Monday, December 7, 2009:

• Candidate’s curriculum vitae not to exceed 4 pages
• Letter of reference from the department chair
• Abstract (1 page) of the proposed research
• Description of the candidate’s most significant research contribution to date (1 page)

A committee will be convened to review the applications and make recommendations as to the University’s nominees.  The Office of the Vice President for Research will notify all applicants of the outcome and the two candidates will prepare the nomination forms to be submitted online by February 25, 2010.

Questions about the submission process may be sent to Ms. Annette Evans in the Office of the Vice President for Research (alevan4@email.uky.edu or 257-1663).

Francis Families Foundation - Parker B. Francis Fellowship Program

Deadline: October 12, 2009

The Francis Families Foundation remains the sole benefactor of the Parker B. Francis Fellowship Program, a national postdoctoral study in pulmonary research inaugurated in 1975. The program supports the development of outstanding investigators planning careers in pulmonary research and awards fellowships in fields related to lung biology and pulmonary disease.

The first grants for pulmonary research were awarded in 1976. Since then, the Francis Families Foundation has contributed more than $40 million to the Parker B. Francis Fellowship Program in support of more than 700 fellows. A survey of former fellows revealed that more than 90 percent of respondents are currently employed in universities and teaching hospitals, and still spend a significant portion of their time on research.

There are no restrictions regarding discipline or department. Clinical or basic science departments are suitable; however, it is expected that the proposed research will focus on lung biology or lung disease.

Each department may submit only one application annually and is limited to a maximum of two active fellowships at any one time. Therefore, each department with more than one interested applicant must hold an internal competition.

For more information, see http://www.francisfellowships.org/learn.htm

Grant Foundation, William T. - Scholars Program

The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports promising early career researchers from diverse disciplines. The award is intended to facilitate the professional development of early career scholars who have some demonstrated success in conducting high quality research and are seeking to further develop their skills and research program. Studies from these Scholars contribute to theory and policy or practice for improving the everyday settings of youth.

Only one applicant may be nominated from a major division of an institution each year (e.g., College of Arts and Sciences, Medical School, major division of a non-profit institution).

For more information see: http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org/info-url_nocat3042/info-url_nocat_show.htm?doc_id=76878&attrib_id=4398.

Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics

Scientific advances in the life sciences have raised dilemmas in public policy, research, and clinical practice regarding such issues as human cloning, stem cell research, gene therapy, and new information technologies. Effective approaches and resolutions to such problems may come from a variety of disciplines including medicine, law, philosophy, religion, and other fields in the humanities, and the social sciences.

The Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics is a career development award to enable outstanding junior faculty members to carry out original research that will help resolve important policy and clinical dilemmas at the intersection of ethics and the life sciences. This research will also put Faculty Scholars in a position to help set public policy and standards of clinical practice. To maximize Scholars' development, three years of support are provided, requiring a 50 percent time commitment (carefully monitored) in each of the three years.

Applicants must be junior faculty members holding at least a 60% appointment at a university or non-profit research institute in the U.S. Priority will be given to applicants who are below the rank of Associate Professor, who have not received a comparable career development award, and whose work will have an impact on public policy or clinical practice. Within this group, priority will be given to applicants whose research addresses innovative and emerging topics. Lower priority will be given to applicants who are working on institutional change, educational reform, or primarily theoretical research. Applicants who propose to carry out a conceptual or theoretical analysis should specify how such work will lead to changes in public policy or clinical practice.

The selection process involves a preliminary application, with approximately 15-20 applicants later invited to submit full proposals. Faculty Scholars will be selected on the basis of their achievements, the strength of their research project, their commitment to the field of bioethics, and support from their home institution. While the amount of an applicant's original work in bioethics will count favorably towards his/her application, outstanding candidates with less direct experience in bioethics will also be considered.

Since only one applicant from an institution will be considered, UK will hold an internal competition. Individuals interested in submitting an application should send the following information to the Office of the Vice President for Research at vpr@email.uky.edu and a copy to his or her Associate Dean for Research by Friday, October 30, 2009:

• A two page description of their research proposal, particularly its significance, how it will be carried out, and how it is likely to have an impact on public policy or clinical practice

A committee will be appointed to review the submissions and make a recommendation.  The selected applicant will be notified in time to submit a preliminary application electronically for the November 20, 2009 deadline.

For additional program information, see http://www.greenwallfsp.org

Questions about the submission process may be sent to Ms. Annette Evans in the Office of the Vice President for Research (alevan4@email.uky.edu or 257-1663).

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Science Education Program

The University of Kentucky is one of 197 research universities invited to submit a proposal to the 2010 competition of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Undergraduate Science Education Program.  This year the program has two distinct initiatives:

• Core Grants to support the following four components:
• Student Research
• Faculty Development
• Curriculum Development
• Outreach and Transitions
• Experiments in Undergraduate Science Education – to encourage science faculty to try innovative ideas in science education

Details on the overall program objectives, each of the two initiatives, and the evaluation process are available in the complete program announcement:  http://www.hhmi.org/grants/institutions/universities.html. HHMI requires the institution to register its intent to submit a proposal and the Office of the Provost is registering UK’s intent to submit a Core grant proposal and also an Experiment proposal.

Because HHMI limits UK to one Core grant proposal and one Experiment proposal, UK has established in internal selection procedure. Individuals interested responding to this solicitation should submit the following information electronically to Ms. Kris Hobson (Hobson@email.uky.edu), Office of the Provost, and a copy to their Dean by Tuesday, July 14, 2009:

• Name of initiative (Core or Experiment)
• Names and departments of PI/Program Director and key personnel
• Program description (a or b)
• Core Grant Program – include goals, objectives, specific activities for each component, relationship of proposed activities to existing initiatives, plans for evaluation, and assessment of long-term impact – maximum 5 pages
• Experiment Program – state the problem, the hypothesis, goals, objectives, the proposed nontraditional methods to address challenges in science education, and strategies for assessing outcomes of the experiment – maximum 3 pages
• Summary statement - key features of the proposed project that are innovative and build on proven success and why the project should be selected as UK’s Core or Experiment proposal – maximum ½ page

A committee will be convened to review the applications and make a recommendation as to UK’s submission(s).  Note:  An Experiment proposal must accompany a proposal for a Core grant, but an Experiment proposal is not required to participate in the program. The HHMI deadline is October 1, 2009.

Johnson Foundation, Robert Wood - Aligning Forces for Quality: The Regional Market Project

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has announced a funding opportunity to help communities dramatically improve the quality of the health care they provide for chronic diseases in ambulatory settings. An academic medical center may be the lead organization and must define the components of its community. The organization must represent and involve multiple stakeholders, with substantial participation by the following health care market stakeholders: health care providers, including physicians and safety net providers; health care plans; employers; and consumers. The RWJF will accept only one proposal per applicant community and anticipates awarding six grants of up to $600,000 each over three years.

The RWJF Regional Market Project requires that proposed projects address three key elements: 1) performance measurement and public reporting; 2) quality improvement capacity; and 3) consumer engagement. Grantees must develop specific, quantifiable milestones and benchmarks to achieve substantial improvement in the three areas.

RWJF has scheduled a conference call for June 20 (1 p.m. – 3 p.m. EDT) to answer any questions about the program. Details are available at http://www.forces4quality.org/.

The lead organization must define its community and register with the RWJF by July 14th in order to submit a proposal.

Additional information and application instructions are available at: http://www.rwjf.org/applications/program/cfp.jsp?ID=19589

Most recent internal deadline: June 29, 2006.

Most recent external deadline: September 7, 2006.

Johnson Foundation, Robert Wood - Nurse Faculty Scholars

Key Dates: Optional informational applicant Web conferences: December 11, 2008 (10 p.m. ET) and December 17, 2008 (2 p.m. ET). Register in advance by signing up on the program's Web site (url below).

Application deadline: February 11, 2009

Purpose: The goal of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars program is to develop the next generation of national leaders in academic nursing through career development awards for outstanding junior nursing faculty. The program aims to strengthen the academic productivity and overall excellence of nursing schools by providing mentorship, leadership training and salary and research support to young faculty.

Up to 15 scholars will be selected each year. Scholars will be supported for 60 percent time for each of the three years of the program through their sponsoring institutions. A school of nursing can nominate one candidate annually, but may have no more than two active scholars in the program at any one time. Candidates must be junior faculty members with at least two, and no more than five, years of experience in the faculty role at the start of the program.

Total Award: Up to 15 awards of up to $350,000 each over three years will be available in this round.

For more information, see http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=20427&c=EMC-FA135.

Contact: Nurse Faculty Scholars National Program Office
The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
info@rwjfnursefacultyscholars.org
Office: (877) 738-0737
http://www.rwjfnursefacultyscholars.org

Kellogg Foundation, W.K. - Rural Policy Network

The Kellogg Foundation is accepting applications for inclusion in the Rural Policy Network component of its Rural People, Rural Policy Initiative. Each selected network member organization will receive a grant of $100,000 over five years to support participation in activities such as the Peer Learning Sessions, Annual Rural Assemblies, and Rural Policy Network meetings. Details about the Initiative, grant application, and organization selection factors are available at the following site: http://www.wkkf.org/default.aspx?tabid=134&CatID=4&NID=212&LanguageID=0

Most recent internal deadline: January 7, 2008.

Most recent external deadline: January 25, 2008 deadline.

Kentucky Academy of Science --- Call for Nominations (Coordinated by OVPR)

The Kentucky Academy of Science (KAS) invites nominations for the following awards:

• Outstanding College/University Teacher – The recipient shall have made some significant contribution primarily to science teaching but also to research at the college/university level in Kentucky. Contributions should be interpreted broadly to mean contribution directly to the Commonwealth, or the intellectual growth in the Commonwealth.
• Outstanding Early Career College/University Teacher – the recipient shall have some significant contributions in teaching and research and hold the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor.
• Distinguished College/University Scientist – The recipient shall have made some significant contribution to academic research in Kentucky. Contributions should be interpreted broadly to mean the contribution directly to the Commonwealth, or to the improvement of the quality of life in the Commonwealth, or to intellectual growth in the Commonwealth.
• Distinguished Professional Scientist (in a non-academic position) – The recipient shall have made some significant contribution to science in Kentucky
• Outstanding Academy Service – The recipient shall have been a long-time member of KAS and shall have made a significant contribution to the growth and development of the Academy

The Office of the Vice President for Research is coordinating the submission of nominations from the University of Kentucky. For each nomination, please send the following information in MS Word format as email attachments to vpr@email.uky.edu by Tuesday, July 14, 2009:

• Name of person and award
• Abbreviated curriculum vitae (5 pages or less) containing information pertinent to the award and a list of publications
• Letters of recommendation from at least three but not more than five professional colleagues well acquainted with the candidate’s qualifications for the award
• In addition, Outstanding Academy Service Award nominations should include documentation of special contribution to the Academy. Outstanding College/University Teacher award nominations should include documentation of special accomplishment as a teacher of science, especially measures of student success, participation in student development beyond the classroom, and science curriculum development. 

For a copy of the guidelines and additional information on KAS activities, see the most recent newsletter at (http://www.kyacademyofscience.org/newsletter/newsletter.pdf.

Questions about the submission process may be sent to Ms. Annette Evans in the Office of the Vice President for Research (alevan4@email.uky.edu or 257-1663.)

Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation

Deadline: February 13, 2009

May Kay Ash Charitable Foundation, a funding source for cancer research, is currently accepting applications for innovative grants for translational research in ovarian, uterine, breast, or cervical cancer. The program will offer at least eight grants. The awards will be up to $100,000 each (combined direct and indirect costs). The grant period is for two years. Only one grant application will be accepted from each accredited medical school and one grant from each school of public health in the United States.

More information is available at http://www.mkacf.org/Pages/CancerGrantProgram.aspx. The current grant announcement and application instructions are online at http://www.mkacf.org/Documents/CancerGrantApplication09.pdf.

Merck Fund, John - Scholars Program in the Biology of Developmental Disabilities in Children

The John Merck Fund has had a longstanding interest in the problem of children who are mentally disabled and emotionally disturbed. It is focusing on investigations of the underlying causes of developmental disabilities by neurobiologists and by cognitive scientists. By supporting the most promising basic research into the processes that impair the lives of the developmentally disabled, the Fund hopes to foster a better scientific understanding of the origin of these disabilities and thereby provide the foundation for more effective approaches to their prevention and treatment.

The Fund inaugurated the annual John Merck Scholars Program in 1990 to award four-year fellowships to three scientists at academic institutions throughout the United States. The program is intended to serve as a major stimulus for gifted, young scientists to pursue careers in fields relating to the problems of children who are mentally disabled and emotionally disturbed.

The John Merck Scholars are chosen from the ranks of the most promising assistant professors currently working, or planning to work, in neurobiological and cognitive sciences relating to the biology of mental disability and developmental disabilities, including developmental studies of cognition, perception, language, reading, learning and motor performance. The Fund will accept one application for a neurobiologist and one for a cognitive scientist from major universities and other research centers.

Research Areas

JMF has in the past funded and will continue to fund the most promising young researchers whose work illuminates neurodevelopmental disorders from the perspectives of (i) synapse formation and synaptic plasticity; (ii) learning and memory, and synaptic plasticity; (iii) perception, cognition and behavior; (iv) neurogenesis and pattern formation; and (v) genetics and early development. We also encourage proposals that (i) investigate the possible role of environmental chemicals in the origins of developmental disabilities, or that (ii) aim to distinguish subgroups within accepted diagnostic categories through the use of sophisticated behavioral and neuroimaging tests of perception, cognition, and emotions based on concepts from modern cognitive neuroscience. In all cases, we seek proposals from young scientists conducting research that is of the highest quality and that has the greatest chance of increasing our understanding of neurodevelopmental disorders.

For more information see: http://www.jmfund.org/jm_scholars_program.html.

An internal competition will be scheduled when the RFA is put out for a 2009 deadline.

Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship

Each year since 2005, Microsoft Research has recognized innovative, promising new faculty members from a number of research institutions to join the ranks of Microsoft Research Faculty Fellows. The objective of the Research Faculty Fellowship Program is to stimulate and support creative research undertaken by promising researchers who have the potential to make a profound impact on the field of computing in their research disciplines. Microsoft Research seeks nominees who are advancing computing research in novel directions with the potential for high impact on the state of the art, and who demonstrate the likelihood of becoming thought leaders in the field.

Each fellowship award includes an unrestricted cash gift of US $200,000. The Microsoft Research Faculty Fellows also have access to other Microsoft resources, such as software, invitations to conferences, and engagements with Microsoft Research. Microsoft awards seven Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship grants each year.

UK is limited to ONE nomination that must be confirmed with a letter from the Provost's Office. The nominee may be no more than six years from the completion of his/her most recent Ph.D., Sc.D., or M.D. The nominee must hold a tenure-track faculty position and must be in the first, second, or third year of the first faculty appointment. Three letters of recommendation are required from established researchers familiar with the nominee's research. Of these letters, one letter of recommendation should come from within the nominating institution; the other two letters should come from outside the nominating institution. Additional details about this program are available on the Microsoft Research web site: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/awards/msrff.aspx.

UK has established an internal selection process for the Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship Program. Interested candidates are asked to submit the following material to Ms. Kris Hobson (hobson@email.uky.edu), Office of the Provost, with a copy to their dean by Friday, October 30, 2009:

• Candidate's Name, Department, Academic Rank, Date of Appointment, and year doctorate was awarded.
• Letter from Department chair or other senior researcher that includes a description of the innovative merit of the candidate's research, a statement on how this work has potential to advance the state of the art, and examples of how UK is supporting this faculty member. Examples could include startup packages, hardware acquisition, RA or Postdoc support.

A committee will be appointed to review the material and make a recommendation as to the University's nominee. The individual selected will be notified in time to prepare the online application for the November 16, 2009 @ 12:00 noon (Pacific Daylight Time) Microsoft Research deadline.

National Conferences on Undergraduate Research/Lancy Foundation, Alice and Leslie - NCUR/Lancy Initiative

The National Conferences on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) and the Alice and Leslie E. Lancy Foundation are accepting proposals for the 2007 NCUR/Lancy Initiative. The program focus is to help build communities of student and faculty scholars across academic disciplines working on a unifying theme. Institutions are requested to propose summer research programs with a cohesive theme or project that may be evaluated and researched by students from a variety of disciplines. An initial award of $40,000 in seed money for the summer of 2007 will support six to ten undergraduate Lancy Scholars for eight to ten weeks doing original work in close collaboration with faculty mentors. Funded institutions may apply for an additional $22,500 for the summer of 2008. The Lancy Scholars are expected to present their work at the annual National Conference on Undergraduate Research. Additional information on this initiative is available at http://www.ncur.org/lancy/announce.htm.

Given the interdisciplinary nature of this program, a brainstorming session may be potentially very productive. To facilitate an exchange of ideas that will lead to further discussion, Sponsored Program Development has reserved Room 103 Main Building on Wednesday, June 14 from 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. Anyone interested in this program is encouraged to attend and express his or her ideas on possible topics. If you are unable to attend but are interested in participating in this competition or have suggestions about a focus area, please send Margot McCullers a brief description of your expertise and/or your specific ideas. Margot will be happy to share this information at the meeting. If you plan to attend and/or wish to see a list of the previous recipients, project titles, and abstracts, please send Margot an e-mail at: mmcculle@email.uky.edu.

Most recent internal deadline: Tuesday, July 11, 2006.

Most recent external deadline: August 15, 2006.

National Kidney Foundation - Young Investigator Grant Program (2009-2011)

The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) recognizes that future improvements in the treatment and prevention of kidney disease will rest largely on the accomplishments of individuals now commencing their investigative work. Young investigators are often hampered in their progress by difficulty in obtaining suitable financial support for their research during the formative period of their careers. The NKF has established a Young Investigator Grant Program to help alleviate this problem. The purpose of the Young Investigator Grant Program is to support research in the fields of nephrology, urology and related disciplines by individuals who have completed fellowship training and who hold junior faculty positions at university-affiliated medical centers in the U.S.

Eligibility: Only one investigator in an institution will be supported in any funding cycle by a Young Investigator Grant.

Applications will be considered from individuals who will have completed research training in nephrology, urology or closely related fields prior to the start of the grant award and who intend to pursue research directly related to these areas. At the time funding begins (July 1, 2009), the applicant must hold a full-time appointment to a faculty position at a university or an equivalent position as a scientist on the staff of a research oriented institution in the U.S. Customarily, the appropriate faculty rank is that of Assistant Professor.

Young Investigator Grants will be awarded to individuals no later than four years after initial appointment to a faculty (or equivalent) position or after appointment to a staff scientist (or equivalent) position in a research organization. Because of this policy, candidates who received a faculty appointment before July 1, 2005 would not be eligible for this award in this funding cycle.

Since the NKF research support program is an integral part of the Foundation's overall scientific mission, it is expected that candidates for support pursuant to this funding mechanism participate as dues-paying professional members of the National Kidney Foundation, Inc. A portion of each professional member's dues payment is contributed to the NKF Research Endowment.

Individuals who have received K08 or K23 awards from the NIH are eligible for funding under the NKF Young Investigator Grant Program.

Terms of Support: Initial support for awards commencing July 1, 2009 will be provided for one year in a total amount not to exceed $50,000. Although funding for a second year of support is not guaranteed, the investigator may request an additional year's funding at $50,000 per annum in the initial application. Up to $15,000 of the grant may be expended for salary and fringe benefits or the principal investigator per year provided that such expenditures are justified in the application. A maximum of $30,000 in salary support will be provided to the recipient of NKF Young Investigator Grants during the term of the award, including extensions, if applicable.

Applications and all supporting documents for Young Investigators Grants must be postmarked no later than Monday, December 1, 2008.

More Information: http://www.kidney.org/professionals/research/

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation (OMSF) - Student Research Training Award

Deadline: August 31, 2008

The OMSF is dedicated to advancing the long term development, health and well-being of the oral and maxillofacial surgery specialty and the public it serves through financial support of research and education. The Student Research Training Award attracts high quality health profession students to biomedical and behavioral research applicable to oral and maxillofacial surgery. It also increase awareness of oral and maxillofacial surgery as a career choice for the professional student.

Departments and/or divisions of oral and maxillofacial surgery within schools of dentistry and teaching hospitals accredited by the American Dental Association Commission on Dental Accreditation are eligible to compete for these grants to support training programs. The $12,500 budget for the Student Research Training Award is to be used to support five (5) Student Research Training projects at $2,500 each. Additional funds required to carry out the program (e.g., supplies, equipment, publication costs, etc.) are to be obtained from other sources.

Only one grant application per institution may be submitted for each review cycle.

For more information, see http://omsfoundation.org/resea4rch/research_awards.asp#student

Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (UK), Yale Center for British Art, Yale University - Curatorial Research Grants

Curatorial Research Grants are offered annually. They are normally made to help institutions undertake research for a particular exhibition or installation of British art, or for a cataloging project, by appointing a Research Curator. In some instances a grant may be made to an institution to provide staff in lieu of a curator who wishes to take leave from other curatorial duties to undertake research for an exhibition or cataloging project. Awards will not exceed £20,000 per annum, for up to three years.

For additional information, see http://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/19/

Because the sponsor will consider only one Curatorial Research Grant application per institution, the University of Kentucky will hold an internal competition. Individuals interested in submitting an application should send the following information to the Vice President for Research at vpr@email.uky.edu and a copy to their Associate Dean for Research by Monday, July 13, 2009:

• Name and department of the Project Director
• Narrative – 2 pages. Describe the proposed curatorial project, expectations and responsibilities of the Research Curator, and the timetable

A committee will be convened to review the applications and make a recommendation. The selected individual will be notified in time for the September 15, 2009 deadline.

Questions about the submission process may be sent to Ms. Annette Evans in the Office of the Vice President for Research (alevan4@email.uky.edu or 257-1663).

Pew Charitiable Trust - Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences

The Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences provides funding to young investigators of outstanding promise in science relevant to the advancement of human health. The award provides $240,000 in flexible support – $60,000 per year for a four-year period. In 2010, the Trusts will name 17 Pew Scholars.

The Program is open to individuals with a doctorate in medicine or biomedical sciences. As of November 1, 2009, candidates must hold full-time appointments at the rank of assistant professor or equivalent. On July 1, 2010, they must not have been in such an appointment for more than three years, whether or not such appointments were on a tenure track.

Pew Scholars may not simultaneously be supported by similar private foundation awards during the first two years of the grant. These awards include but are not limited to those of Searle, Ellison Medical Foundation, Beckman, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

A complete description of the program, its terms, and eligibility requirements may be found at http://www.pewscholars.org.

Since the sponsor will accept only one candidate from each institution, UK will hold an internal competition. Eligible UK faculty who wish to be considered for this program should submit a nomination packet electronically to the Office of the Vice President for Research at vpr@email.uky.edu and a copy to his or her Associate Dean for Research by Wednesday, September 23, 2009.  The nomination packet is to include:

• Abstract of proposed research (1 page)
• A brief description of the applicant’s most significant research contribution to date, highlighting particularly creative and risk-taking aspects of the proposed research, and a statement of how the receipt of the Pew Scholarship would benefit the applicant. (1-2 pages)
• Current CV

The Vice President for Research will appoint a committee to review the material and make a recommendation as to the University's ONE nominee.  All applicants will be notified of the results.  The individual selected will be given the email address of the Trust's contact person to obtain the username and password designated for UK's nominee to submit his/her application by the November 2, 2009 deadline.

Questions about the submission process may be sent to Ms. Annette Evans in the Office of the Vice President for Research (alevan4@email.uky.edu or 257-1663.)

Pfeiffer Foundation, Gustavus and Louise

The Gustavus and Louise Pfeiffer Foundation makes grants of up to $75,000 to tax-exempt institutions for projects or programs carried out in the United States for advancement of medicine and pharmacy, including scientific research, post-graduate scholarship and fellowship assistance, and studies in nutrition, blindness, deafness and other physical disabilities. The Foundation's fields of interest include: public health research, including ear, nose & throat, vision, geriatrics, pediatrics, nutrition, medical and pharmaceutical research. Grants are for a period of one year, subject to possible renewal, limited to two additional one year periods for the same project or investigator.

The Foundation Directors meet twice a year to consider grant applications. The Spring meeting is normally held in late April; the Fall meeting is normally held in late October. Since no more than three Letters of Inquiry (LOI) from the same institution per meeting will be accepted, UK will hold an internal competition to identify UK's three applicants for the January 8, 2010 deadline (i.e., for the Spring Foundation review). Individuals interested in submitting a LOI should send the following information to the Office of the Vice President for Research at vpr@email.uky.edu and a copy to his or her Associate Dean for Research by Monday, November 9, 2009:

• Name and department of Principal Investigator

• A Letter of Inquiry, not to exceed two pages and written in language which an educated lay person can understand, which includes the following:  (a) the nature and purpose of the project;(b) the field of interest of the Foundation to which it relates; (c), the amount requested; (d) a general description of the work and(e) the items to be funded.

A committee will be appointed to review the submissions and make a recommendation.  The selected applicants will be notified in time for the January 8, 2010 deadline.

For additional information, see http://foundationcenter.org/grantmaker/pfeiffer/.

Questions about the submission process may be sent to Ms. Annette Evans in the Office of the Vice President for Research (alevan4@email.uky.edu or 257-1663.)

Pfizer, Inc. - Fellowships in Clinical Practice

Description

Pfizer Inc is proud to sponsor the Pfizer Fellowship in Clinical Practice award. This program is intended to contribute to the career development of nurses, pharmacists, or physicians who have completed their training and have elected to specialize as clinicians. This educational grant is nationally competitive, and chosen by an independent academic advisory board of US healthcare leaders.

Each grant award is in the amount of $130,000 paid out over 2 years at $65,000 per year. Award funding is primarily intended for salary support. The applicant must demonstrate that at least 75% of his/her professional time will be devoted to research. Proposals involving head-to-head clinical trials or veterinary health will not be considered. Interdisciplinary and translational research proposals are encouraged.

US citizens or foreign nationals with permanent resident status (proof required) who have a doctoral-level degree and postdoctoral training appropriate for a clinical fellowship are encouraged to apply.

The applicant should have relevant experience and be eligible for an appointment as a postdoctoral fellow/trainee at a US-based school of medicine, college of osteopathic medicine, nursing school, or pharmacy school. Applicant will not hold a full-time tenure track faculty position or the equivalent in the first year of this fellowship.

Since Pfizer will accept only one application from each division/department of the University, any individual interested in applying should contact his/her unit head before submitting an application.

Closing Date: January 31, 2010

Link to Full Announcement: http://www.pfizermap.com/AwardDetails.aspx?AwardID=2241

Pfizer, Inc. - Fellowships in Health Disparities

Description

Studies of disparities in healthcare consistently demonstrate that racial and ethnic minorities tend to receive a lower quality of healthcare than non-minorities, even when access-related factors, such as status, income and patients' insurance, are controlled. These disparities are found in a wide range of disease and healthcare categories. Many factors contribute to racial and ethnic disparities in health care. Pfizer is committed to increasing awareness about Health Disparities, and ultimately developing and implementing methods to eliminate disparities in health and health care.

Pfizer Inc is proud to sponsor the Pfizer Fellowship in Health Disparities. This award is meant to support the career development of talented junior researchers. This unrestricted educational grant is nationally competitive, and an independent academic advisory board of recognized leaders in Health Disparities will choose the recipients.

A grant of $130,000, paid over two years, will be awarded to an individual who is pursuing scientific research in health disparities. Award funding is primarily intended for salary support. The applicant must demonstrate that at least 75% of his/her professional time will be devoted to research. Proposals involving head-to-head clinical trials or veterinary health will not be considered. Interdisciplinary and translational research proposals are encouraged.

US citizens or foreign nationals with permanent resident status (proof required) who have a doctoral-level degree and postdoctoral training appropriate for the research proposed are encouraged to apply. The applicant should have relevant research experience and have an appointment as a postdoctoral fellow/trainee or equivalent at an accredited academic or research institution and will not hold a full-time tenure track faculty position or the equivalent in the first year of this fellowship.

The applicant must have assurances from the sponsoring institution that he or she occupies an appropriate position, and that the institution's infrastructure has the capacity to support the conduct of such research during the entire course of the award. A faculty member experienced in Health Disparities based research must act as a mentor to the applicant throughout the award. Additionally, it would be preferable to have a mentor identified from a local or state health or health-related agency.

The proposed research should focus on one or more of the following health disparities research areas

• Further identifying and assessing sources of racial and ethnic disparities to illuminate how and why healthcare disparities occur
• Methods of increasing awareness about racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare among the general public and key stakeholders
• Researching ethical issues and other barriers to eliminate disparities in healthcare
• Developing methods for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities
• Evaluating the effectiveness of intervention strategies

Since Pfizer will accept only one application from each division/department of the University, any individual interested in applying should contact his/her unit head before submitting an application.

Closing Date: January 31, 2010

Link to Full Announcement: http://www.pfizermap.com/AwardDetails.aspx?AwardID=2239

Pfizer, Inc. - Fellowships in Health Policy

Description

Pfizer Inc is proud to sponsor the Pfizer Fellowship in Health Policy. This award is meant to support the career development of junior faculty in health policy and research. This educational grant is nationally competitive, and chosen by an independent Academic Advisory Board of recognized leaders in health policy.

• One grant of $130,000, paid over 2 years, will be awarded to an individual pursuing research in health policy.
• Award funding is primarily intended for salary support. The applicant must demonstrate that at least 75% of his/her professional time will be devoted to research. Proposals involving head-to-head clinical trials or veterinary health will not be considered. Interdisciplinary and translational research proposals are encouraged.

US citizens or foreign nationals with US resident status (proof required) who have a doctoral-level degree, relevant research experience, and postdoctoral clinical training appropriate for the proposed research are encouraged to apply.

The applicant should hold a junior faculty position (within 2 years of appointment as an instructor, an assistant professor, or an equivalent junior faculty rank) at an accredited school of medicine (allopathic or osteopathic), nursing, pharmacy or public health. The applicant must have assurances from the academic institution that he/she occupies an appropriate position, that the institution's infrastructure has the capacity to support the conduct of such research during the entire course of the award, and that an appropriate mentorship by faculty will be provided. (Collaboration with off-site mentors is also encouraged.)

Since Pfizer will accept only one application from each division/department of the University, any individual interested in applying should contact his/her unit head before submitting an application.

Closing Date: January 31, 2010

Link to Full Announcement: http://www.pfizermap.com/AwardDetails.aspx?AwardID=2240

Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) Foundation

The College of Medicine and the College of Pharmacy may each submit 1 application and will handle the internal selection at the college level.

The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) Foundation – Pharmacology/Toxicology Awards support career-development activities of scientists prepared to engage in research that integrates information on molecular or cellular mechanisms of action with information on the effects of an agent observed in an intact organism, either in experimental animal or clinical studies or both. 

The Pre Doctoral Fellowship program assists full-time, in-residence Ph.D. candidates in the fields of pharmacology or toxicology who are enrolled in schools of medicine, pharmacy, dentistry or veterinary medicine. The program supports full-time advanced students who will have completed the bulk of their pre-thesis requirements (at least two years of study) and are engaged in thesis research as Ph.D. candidates by the time the award is activated. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. 

The program is designed for candidates who expect to complete the requirements for the Ph.D. in the fields of pharmacology or toxicology in two years or less from the time the fellowship begins. The fellowship provides a stipend of $20,000 a year payable monthly for a minimum of one year and a maximum of two years. Of the $20,000 awarded annually, up to $500 a year may be used for incidentals directly associated with the thesis research preparation (e.g., secretarial help, artwork, books, travel, etc.). The second year of a fellowship is contingent upon certification by the thesis advisor that satisfactory progress is being achieved.

In the field of pharmacology or toxicology, highest priority will be given to applications for research that attempts to integrate information on the mechanism of action of a drug or chemical at a molecular or cellular level with the drug's effects in the intact laboratory animal or human, encompassing the potential influences of biochemical, physiological or behavioral systems. The pharmacology/toxicology research and teaching mission of the unit awarding the degree must be apparent as a core mission component on their web site.

Guidelines and additional information are available on the PhRMA Foundation website:  http://www.phrmafoundation.org/awards/pharmacology/predoc.php

Most recent internal deadline: August 1, 2008.

Most recent external deadline: September 1, 2008.

Powe, Ralph E. - Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards

The Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) is a consortium of 97 research colleges and universities institutions, including the University of Kentucky, that carries out research and development, training and education, technical assistance, and technology transfer activities.  The Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards provide $5,000 to full-time assistant professors within two years of their initial tenure track appointment (2/5/2008 through 2/5/2010).  The applicant’s institution matches the award with at least an additional $5,000.  Research projects must be in one of the following five areas:

• Engineering and Applied Science
• Life Sciences
• Mathematics/Computer Sciences
• Physical Sciences
• Policy, Management, or Education

Additional information on the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards is available at the following web site:  http://www.orau.org/university-partnerships/faculty-student-programs/powe/default.aspx

Because the ORAU allows each member councilor to submit only two applications, the University of Kentucky has established an internal selection process.  Individuals interested in submitting to this program are to submit the following material electronically to the Office of the Vice President for Research at vpr@email.uky.edu and a copy to their Associate Dean for Research by Friday, December 4, 2009:

            (1) a two page resume;

            (2) an abstract or two-page description of the proposed research;

            (3) a budget and justification for the $5,000 requested from ORAU;

            (4) the proposed source of matching funds.

The Vice President for Research, UK’s ORAU councilor, will appoint a committee to review this information and make recommendations as to the University’s submissions.  The individuals selected will be notified and the proposal will be submitted electronically to Oak Ridge by the Vice President for Research for the February 5, 2010 deadline.

Questions about the submission process may be sent to Ms. Annette Evans in the Office of the Vice President for Research (alevan4@email.uky.edu or 257-1663).

RGK Foundation Grants

The RGK Foundation endeavors to be a catalyst for progressive change in humanitarian concerns. Guiding the Foundation is a deep reverence for democracy and a civil society together with the founders' values of foresight, imagination and discovery. By seeking innovative projects in the area of health, education, human services and community affairs, the Foundation strives to advance knowledge, improve society and help realize human potential.

RGK Foundation awards grants in the broad areas of Education, Community, and Medicine/Health. The Foundation's primary interests within Education include programs that focus on formal K-12 education (particularly mathematics, science and reading), teacher development, literacy, and higher education. Within Community, the Foundation supports a broad range of human services, community improvement, abuse prevention, and youth development programs. Human service programs of particular interest include children and family services, early childhood development, and parenting education. Youth development programs supported typically include after-school educational enrichment programs. The Foundation is also interested in programs that attract female and minority students into the fields of mathematics, science, and technology. The Foundation's current interests in the area of Medicine and Health include programs that promote the health and well-being of children, programs that promote access to health services, and Foundation-initiated programs focusing on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).

The Foundation limits an institution to only one electronic Letter of Interest (LOI) in a twelve-month period. There are no deadlines for the LOI, and Foundation staff review it and respond within two weeks, inviting a formal application or declining the request. Review of the complete application my take up to four months and may also involve the Grants Committee, which meets three times a year, if the request is over $100,000. Although the Foundation occasionally awards grants for over $25,000, the average grant is under $25,000. A list of recent grants is available at http://www.rgkfoundation.org/public/grants. For additional information on guidelines and Answers to Frequently Asked Questions, see http://www.rgkfoundation.org/public/guidelines.

Most recent internal deadline: March 11, 2009.

Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, Damon - Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award

The Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award supports young physician-scientist conducting patient-oriented cancer research. The goal is to increase the number of physicians capable of moving seamlessly between the laboratory and the patient's bedside in search of breakthrough treatments. The awardee will receive $150,000 per year for three years. The Foundation will also retire up to $100,000 of any qualifying medical school debt still owed by the awardee.

The University of Kentucky College of Medicine and its affiliated colleges have been invited to submit up to two nominations for this award. The applicant must be a U.S. citizen or permanent legal resident, and must have received an MD or MD/PhD degree(s) from an accredited institution and be board-eligible. The applicant may apply during his/her final year of subspecialty training or within the first four years of the initial assistant professorship appointment. The applicant must commit to spending 80% of his/her time conducting research, and is required to apply in conjunction with a mentor who is established in the field of clinical translational cancer research, cancer prevention and/or epidemiology, and can provide the critical guidance needed during the period of the award.

Investigators may receive funding from other sources to support their research.  However, no other physician-scientist career development award from a private source (non-federal government) may be held concurrently with the Clinical Investigator Award. Physician-scientist career development awards from the federal government including the National Institutes of Health (e.g., K-08, K-12, K-23), the Department of Defense, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs are allowed. Scientific or budgetary overlap with other funded projects is not allowed.  Therefore, it is critical that all current and pending grant support for your research be reported to the Foundation and the relationship of that support to the Damon Runyon funded project be explained.

Individuals interested in participating in the internal competition should send the following information to the Office of the Vice President for Research at vpr@email.uky.edu and a copy to their Associate Dean for Research by Wednesday, January 20, 2010:

• Name of the candidate, the department, and date of academic appointment
• A letter from the department chair, confirming that the candidate is a tenure-track assistant professor within the first four years of initial appointment, can commit 80% effort to the proposed research activity over the three-year period, and has demonstrated experience and dedication to be an outstanding candidate for this award
• A letter of support from the mentor that (1) evaluates the applicant's qualifications for the proposed research project, (2) assesses the person's potential for successful independent research, and (3) guarantees that the applicant is under no obligation to any industrial ties or obligations the mentor may have.
• A brief description of the proposed research (maximum 2 pages) - include specific aims, significance of the research goals, and the experimental design strategies and methods to be used in the conduct of the research.

A committee will be convened to review the applications and make recommendations as to the University's nominees. The Office of the Vice President for Research will notify all applicants of the outcome in time for the selected nominees to prepare a full proposal by the March 1, 2010 deadline.

The award overview is at http://www.damonrunyon.org/for_scientists/more/clinical_investigator_award_overview;

application guidelines are at http://www.damonrunyon.org/for_scientists/more/clinical_investigator_award_application_guidelines;

and information about previous awardees is available at http://www.damonrunyon.org/current_projects.

Questions about the submission process may be sent to Ms. Annette Evans in the Office of the Vice President for Research (alevan4@email.uky.edu or 257-1663.)

Searle Scholars Program for Outstanding New Faculty

The University of Kentucky is one of 147 institutions invited to submit ONE application to the highly competitive Searle Scholars Program for outstanding new faculty.  This program annually awards 15 new grants of $100,000 per year for three years.  Eligibility is limited to individuals who began their first appointment at the assistant professor level on or after July 1, 2008 and therefore are in their first or second year.  The appointment must be a tenure-track position in an academic department.  Applicants are expected to be pursuing independent research careers in biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, immunology, neuroscience, pharmacology, and related areas in chemistry, medicine, and the biological sciences. 

Eligible UK faculty who wish to be considered for this program should submit a nomination packet electronically to the Office of the Vice President for Research at vpr@email.uky.edu and a copy to his or her Associate Dean for Research by Wednesday, August 5, 2009.  The nomination packet is to include:

• Name, department, and complete curriculum vitae of the candidate
• Letter of support to the Searle Scholar Selection Committee from the department chair
• Title of the candidate’s proposed research and an abstract which describes the research and its significance (250-300 words). 

The Vice President for Research will appoint a committee to review the material and make a recommendation as to the University’s ONE nominee.  All applicants will be notified of the results.  The individual selected will be given the username and password to download and complete the application for transmittal to the Searle Scholars Program by the September 25, 2009 deadline.  The application requires an abstract, completion of the 12 page application form, statement from the department chair, three letters of reference sent directly to the sponsor, and the first page of selected publications.

If you anticipate nominating someone from your department and would like additional information about previous Searle Scholars, access the Searle Scholars website (http://www.searlescholars.net/) or contact Margot McCullers (mmcculle@email.uky.edu; or 7-2861).  Questions about the submission process may be sent to Ms. Annette Evans in the Office of the Vice President for Research (alevan4@email.uky.edu or 257-1663.)

SIR Foundation - Dr. Ernest J. Ring Academic Development Grant

Deadline: December 14, 2009

This grant program, named after Ernest J. Ring, MD, the founder of the SIR Foundation, is designed to provide support to junior Interventional Radiology faculty members early in their academic careers to allow time for the conduct of research. The goal of this program is to have the grant recipient subsequently obtain additional funding from other sources, e.g., National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants.

This grant provides $50,000 a year for two years. The second year of funding is contingent on satisfactory review of a first year progress report.

Applicants should be individuals who have not yet been recognized as independent investigators or recipients of major grant support (i.el., current grants exceeding $50,000). Applicants must be within the first five years of their initial faculty appointment after having completed all formal training. Only applicants holding a position up to and including the assistant professor level at the time of application are eligible.

Since the SIR Foundation only accepts one application from an institution per year, please contact the Radiology Department concerning their internal competition.

For additional information, see http://www.sirfoundation.org/pdf/Ring.pdf