The Greenwall FoundationBIOETHICSProgram GuidelinesThrough its interdisciplinary program in bioethics, The Foundation provides funding for physicians, lawyers, philosophers, theologians and other professionals to address micro and macro issues in bioethics, providing guidance for those engaged in decision-making at the bedside as well as those responsible for shaping institutional and public policy.The Foundation is especially interested in the work of junior investigators and pilot projects that may lead to NIH support, and it is prepared to address issues regarded by some as sensitive or potentially controversial.The Foundation is not normally interested in proposals to support equipment purchase, facility construction or renovation, or general operating expenses, and will not normally consider grants to private foundations, endowment funds, or individual applicants.Grant making in bioethics is focused on five programs: (1) research and project grants; (2) The Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program; (3) The Greenwall Fellowship Program in Bioethics and Health Policy; (4) The Oscar M Ruebhausen Visiting Professorship; and (5) The Kornfeld Program in Bioethics and Patient Care.Proposals should be submitted electronically in a single PDF document to admin@greenwall.org. In addition, three copies of the proposal should be mailed to The Greenwall Foundation, 420 Lexington Avenue, Suite 2500, New York, New York 10170. Requests for support should include: * Cover page, with applicant's name, institution, and contact information (mailing address, telephone number, facsimile number, and email address), project title, project grant period, and amount requested * Executive Summary (one-page) * Statement (not to exceed 8 pages single spaced) of (1) objectives and specific aims, (2) background and significance, (3) preliminary data, (4) research design -- methods and data analysis, and (5) plans for dissemination and future work * References * Appendices, including survey instruments, letters of support, and unpublished articles especially relevant to the work at hand. * NIH-type curriculum vitae (not to exceed 4 pages) with statement of principal investigator's other financial support * Summary budget (expense and income) specifying the amount requested from The Greenwall Foundation for this project - please download and use this form * 501(c)3 tax exemption letter The application should be in Times New Roman 12 point font. (Please note that this is larger than the NIH minimum.)Proposal deadlines are: * February 1 for the spring grant cycle * August 1 for the autumn grant cycle Proposals, both electronic and hard copies, must be received at The Foundation's offices by close of business (5:00 pm EST) on these dates or, should these dates fall on a weekend, on the next business day.Applicants are encouraged to telephone The Foundation's President regarding their proposals well in advance of the application deadlines.Applicants whose proposals are declined are customarily requested to wait a full year before submitting another proposal for consideration by The Foundation's Board.
American Council of Learned Societies Collaborative Research Awards Fellowship Details * Maximum award: up to $140,000 per project, with no more than $60,000 awarded to a single participant for salary replacement * Tenure: up to a total tenure period of 24 months, to be initiated between July 1, 2009 and September 1, 2011 * Completed applications must be submitted through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org) no later than 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, November 12, 2008. * Notifications will be sent in April 2009.ACLS invites applications for the inaugural competition for the ACLS Collaborative Research Awards. These awards support collaborative research in the humanities and related social sciences (1). A grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supports this program. Collaborations need not be interdisciplinary or inter-institutional, but must involve at least two scholars; applicants at the same institution must demonstrate why local funding is insufficient to support the project. It is hoped that projects of successful applicants will help demonstrate the range and value of both collaborative research and inquiry in the humanities, and model how such collaboration may be carried out successfully. Collaborations that involve the participation of assistant and associate faculty members, or that of scholars at different kinds of institutions, are particularly encouraged.ObjectivesThe aim of this program is to offer teams of two or more scholars the opportunity to collaborate intensively on a single, substantive project. Each project should * Provide release time to pursue collaborative research; * Yield tangible research outcomes, such as joint publications, web projects, or other collaboratively produced projects.The award is for a total period of up to 24 months, to be initiated between July 1, 2009 and September 1, 2011. The award includes stipends to allow up to an academic year’s leave from teaching for participants, as well as up to $20,000 in collaboration costs to facilitate face-to-face and virtual interactions. Funds not dedicated to stipends may be used for such purposes as 1) travel to meet periodically during the tenure of the award; 2) materials, such as books or modest technical support to enable collaborative work; or 3) research assistance as is necessary to facilitate the collaborative project. Awards amounts will range from $60,000 to $140,000 in total, depending on the nature and duration of the collaboration, the kinds of expenses projected to carry out the research, and the number of participants. Salary-replacement stipends are based on academic rank: up to $35,000 for Assistant Professor and career equivalent; up to $40,000 for Associate Professor and career equivalent; and up to $60,000 for full Professor and career equivalent.Projects will be judged by their quality and the extent to which project participants have the expertise appropriate and necessary to carry out the work.The Project Coordinator and the Application ProcessOne member of the project team must be designated as the Project Coordinator. The Project Coordinator is responsible for starting the application, entering the names and email addresses of the other participants, completing the project sections of the application, and submitting the application. The Project Coordinator is further responsible for ensuring that all participants in the project have submitted their elements of the application. It is anticipated that the Project Coordinator’s institution will administer the funds for collaboration costs.Once the Project Coordinator has entered the participant list into the application, each participant will receive an email with registration information and a code to link them to the group application. Each project participant will complete the individual sections of the application (including personal and professional information), enter information for two reference letters, and upload a publications list. The Project Coordinator will complete the project section of the application and will the upload the project proposal. All participants will have reading access to the project section of the application, but only the Project Coordinator will be able to enter and update the project section.Eligibility Guidelines: 1. The project coordinator must have an appointment at an institution of higher education; other project members may be independent scholars. 2. The project coordinator must be at a U.S.-based institution; other project members may be at institutions outside the United States. 3. All project participants must hold a Ph.D. degree or its equivalent in publications and professional experience.Application RequirementsApplications must include: * Completed application form * Proposal (no more than 10 pages, double-spaced). The proposal should explain the process and product of the collaboration. It should make clear the goal of the collaboration, its structure, how credit and acknowledgement would be determined, and how the process and project of collaboration would be mutually informing. Finally, the proposal should explain how collaboration enables research that is intellectually innovative and produces a final outcome that would be more productive than the sum of individual efforts of the project members. * Up to two additional pages of images, musical scores, or other similar supporting non-text materials * Participant Information Sheet, listing all project members and identifying the project coordinator for administrative purposes * Research Plan, including a timeline of the proposed research activities, including the location, duration, and names of individuals involved in each stage. This may be in the form of a graphic timeline or narrative description. * Bibliography (no more than three pages) that places the project in intellectual context and should include representative work in all of the disciplines involved in the project * Budget statement, outlining: salary replacement, and costs of research assistance, travel, and research materials * Publications list for each participant (no more than three pages for each participant) * At least four reference letters, with two letters for each project participantCriteria Used in Judging Collaborative Research Award ApplicationsPeer reviewers in this program are asked to evaluate all eligible proposals on the following five criteria: 1. The intrinsic quality of the proposal and the clarity with which it is conveyed, 2. The significance of the project for research in the humanities (the general and specific fields in which it figures), 3. The plan of work, 4. The training and professional experience of the researchers (relative to their career stages), and 5. The extent to which the proposed project would serve as a model for other collaborative research projects. 1. Appropriate fields of specialization include but are not limited to: American studies; anthropology; archaeology; art and architectural history; classics; economics; film; geography; history; languages and literatures; legal studies; linguistics; musicology; philosophy; political science; psychology; religious studies; rhetoric, communication, and media studies; science, technology, and medicine studies; sociology; and theater, dance, and performance studies. Proposals in the social science fields listed above are eligible only if they employ predominantly humanistic approaches (e.g., economic history, law and literature, political theory). Proposals in interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary studies are welcome, as are proposals focused on any geographic region or on any cultural or linguistic group.
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The Parker B. Francis Fellowship in Pulmonary Research is intended to support the development of outstanding investigators who plan careers in pulmonary research. We seek to help them as they make the transition to independent, self-supporting, faculty members. Parker B. Francis Fellowship grants are awarded to institutions for the purpose of providing stipends, fringe benefits, and modest travel expenses in support of qualified post-doctoral fellows or newly appointed assistant professors. Award recipients will thereby be enabled to devote the major part of their professional effort to research related to pulmonary disease and lung biology. Grants are made for three years of support. It is permissible to maintain support for the awardee as he or she moves from fellowship to faculty status. Awards are made to institutions on behalf of the fellows and can be transferred to other institutions only under special circumstances with prior approval from the Director of the Fellowship Program. Fellows supported by a Parker B. Francis Fellowship must be assured of having at least 75 percent of their time available for research. This means that a total of no more than three months per year may be spent in clinical or other non-research activities.
GENERAL INFORMATION APPLICANTS The ideal candidate is one with evidence of strong aptitude in research and who is in transition from post-doctoral trainee to independent investigator. It is essential that there be evidence of accomplishment and proficiency in research. Few applicants who are just beginning research training and have only one or two research publications are funded. Candidates with greater than seven years since the doctoral degree should include reasons for continued training. Candidates may hold any relevant doctoral degree (e.g., M.D., Ph.D., Sc.D., D.V.M., Dr. P.H.). Fellowships are restricted to US, Canadian and Mexican citizens or permanent residents. However, foreign nationals who document their initial steps toward permanent residence in the US, Canada or Mexico will also be considered. Documentation should include a description of steps already taken toward application for long-term residency or citizenship. MENTORS Mentorship of the fellow by an established investigator is required. Any established faculty scientist at a university or a not-for-profit research institution may mentor a candidate for fellowship. Mentors at government or corporate laboratories are not eligible. The mentor should be in a position to guarantee that 75 percent of a fellow's time is available for research. The mentor should be committed to fostering the candidate's career advancement and should be the primary scientific advisor. Secondary scientific mentors at the same or a different institution are encouraged but not required. Their roles should be described in the body of the application. Many fellows spend some portion of their fellowship years working with a secondary mentor at another institution. INSTITUTIONS 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. Awards are limited to institutions located in the US, Canada and Mexico. Each department may submit only one application annually and is limited to a maximum of two active fellowships at any one time. NOTES ABOUT OTHER GRANT SUPPORT Having an NIH K series or similar award at the time of application makes one ineligible for a PBF Fellowship. However, once awarded, a PBF Fellow may accept such a grant, as long as the basic requirements of the PBF Fellowship are met (75 percent of time available for research and PBF funds used only for salary and travel). Most importantly, the area of lung research pursued should remain the same. Previous individual or institutional NIH or MRC training grants do not make one ineligible, although they must be relinquished if a PBF Fellowship is awarded. Individuals are ineligible for a PBF Fellowship if they are the principal investigator on an NIH RO1 or similar research grant when applying for a PBF Fellowship. But Fellows in their second or third year may have their own NIH RO1 or similar grant. In fact, obtaining research grants is an appropriate goal for PBF Fellows. Since fellowship funds are restricted to the Fellow's salary and travel, in some cases it may not be possible to utilize the full level of PBF Fellowship support. Awards will not be given if either the fellow or mentor currently holds funding from the tobacco industry, even if the tobacco monies will not be used to support the PBF sponsored research. APPROPRIATE TOPICS A broad array of approaches to lung biology and respiratory medicine, ranging from cell and molecular studies, to those involving epidemiologic and clinical aspects of human subjects are appropriate. We also encourage applications from pulmonary medicine specialists interested in pursuing research in bioethical aspects of pulmonary medicine or critical care. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the ethics of clinical trials in critical care, end-of-life decisions and resource allocation. The context of all these topics should be pulmonary biology and lung disease. Applicants must meet all the eligibility standards. Mentors and/or applicants considering whether a particular area is appropriate are encouraged to discuss potential projects with the Director of the PBF Fellowship Program in Seattle, Washington (trmartin@u.washington.edu).
MAILING ADDRESS Thomas R. Martin, M.D. Director Parker B. Francis Fellowship Program Pulmonary Research Laboratories VA Puget Sound Health Care System 1660 S. Columbian Way, 151L Seattle, WA 98108 DEADLINE Applications must be received no later than Friday, October 17, 2008.
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