American Association of Immunologists/BD Biosciences Investigator Award
This award recognizes an early-career investigator who has made outstanding contributions to the field of immunology. The award recipient will receive a $3,000 cash prize and travel support to the AAI Annual Meeting for presentation of his or her research in an award lecture preceded by the award presentation. This award is generously supported through a grant from BD Biosciences.
For complete AAI Award eligibility requirements and nomination instructions, visit http://www.aai.org/Awards.
American Association of Immunologists, Inc. 9650 Rockville Pike | Bethesda, Maryland 20814 * Phone: (301) 634-7178 | Fax: (301) 634-7887 Email: infoaai@aai.org | Web: www.aai.org |
American Association of Immunologists/Invitrogen Meritorious Career Award
This award recognizes a mid-career scientist for outstanding research contributions to the field of immunology. The award recipient will receive a $10,000 cash award and travel support to attend the AAI Annual Meeting. The award recipient will present his or her research in an award lecture preceded by the award presentation. This award is generously supported through a grant from Invitrogen Corp.
For complete AAI Award eligibility requirements and nomination instructions, visit http://www.aai.org/Awards. American Association of Immunologists, Inc. 9650 Rockville Pike | Bethesda, Maryland 20814 * Phone: (301) 634-7178 | Fax: (301) 634-7887 Email: infoaai@aai.org | Web: www.aai.org |
American Association of Immunologists/ Dana Foundation Award in Human Immunology Research
This award recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the understanding of the immune processes pertinent to human disease pathogenesis, prevention, and therapy. The award recipient will receive a $5,000 cash award and travel support to attend the AAI Annual Meeting for presentation of his or her work in an award lecture. In addition, the award provides support to one member of the awardee’s laboratory to attend the AAI Annual Meeting. This award is generously supported by the Dana Foundation.
American Society of Transplant Surgeons/Roche Laboratories Scientist Scholarships ASTS and Roche Laboratories continue their commitment toward supporting full-time basic and translational research in the field of transplantation and transplant immunobiology in the laboratory of an ASTS Member. This award is specifically designed to support research in a laboratory setting.Amount$40,000 per year for 2 yearsFunds supportDirect research expenses and/or educational enrichment of the Awardee.No indirects will be paid.Applicant EligibilityPlease review these eligibility requirements carefully to ensure that you apply for an appropriate award. * Resident in an ACGME program, or * Completed an advanced professional degree (i.e. PhD, DVM), or foreign equivalent, in discipline germane to transplantation. * Completed at least 2 years of clinical training or 1 year of post doctoral research in transplantation or transplant immunobiology. * Awardee may not concurrently receive any other financial support for the proposed research from ASTS, AST, ACS, SUS or other society granting similar support. * Applicant must reside in North America * Proposed work is in the laboratory of an ASTS Member.Submission Requirements * Online Application Form * Narrative: 3 page maximum including references plus 1 page of graphics permitted. State the reason for applying for the award, specific objectives for the duration of the award, and future plans and goals. * Autobiography: 1 page maximum explaining your educational background, choice of career and interest in transplantation and research. * Budget: 1 page maximum * Department Chair Nomination Letter: This letter must indicate that the applicant will be guaranteed two years research time for the proposed research. * Member Sponsor Letter * CVOther Requirements * The Awardee must attend the ASTS Awards Ceremony at ATC to formally accept the award. * An abstract must be submitted for presentation at an ATC or ASTS Winter Symposium during the award period or within 6 months of award completion. * A mid-report to the ASTS National Office must be submitted in the spring of the first year.Other2 awards available annually.
Submission Deadline: January 13, 2009
American Society of Transplant Surgeons | 2461 South Clark St., Suite 640 | Arlington, VA 22202 | Phone: 703-414-7870 | Fax: 703-414-7874
The AST Basic Science Fellowship Grants are intended to broadly support work in transplantation biology ranging from pertinent basic immunology to animal studies. All types of organ, tissue, and cell transplants will be considered. The project should provide a strong training vehicle for the applicant, in keeping with the overall mission of the AST Fellowship Grants.
Application deadline: Midnight Eastern Time on Friday, November 21, 2008. The goals of the AST Fellowship Grants are: To foster training of new young investigators who have the potential to contribute to our understanding of transplant science/immunobiology and/or treatment of transplant recipients. To foster research that is of high merit. To encourage high quality applicants who want to develop a career in academic transplantation. The AST Fellowship Grants are 2 year grants of $40,000/year, designed to provide salary support for individuals who have spent two years or less (at the time of the application) performing research in the area of transplantation since obtaining their last post-doctoral degree (PhD, MD or equivalent).The AST Fellowship Grant applications are submitted in one of two primary categories and one specialized category (AST/JDRF grant). The Grants all share the same eligibility requirements, application and review process.
American Society of Transplantation 15000 Commerce Parkway Suite C Mt.Laurel, NJ,08054 Phone: 856.439.9986 Fax: 856.439.9982 Email: ast@ahint.com
American Society of Transplantation Clinical Science Fellowship Grant
Application deadline: Midnight Eastern Time on Friday, November 21, 2008. The goals of the AST Fellowship Grants are: To foster training of new young investigators who have the potential to contribute to our understanding of transplant science/immunobiology and/or treatment of transplant recipients. To foster research that is of high merit. To encourage high quality applicants who want to develop a career in academic transplantation. The AST Fellowship Grants are 2 year grants of $40,000/year, designed to provide salary support for individuals who have spent two years or less (at the time of the application) performing research in the area of transplantation since obtaining their last post-doctoral degree (PhD, MD or equivalent). See Eligibility Requirements for more detailed information. The AST Fellowship Grant applications are submitted in one of two primary categories and one specialized category (AST/JDRF grant). The Grants all share the same eligibility requirements, application and review process. AST Clinical Science Fellowship Grant
The Clinical Science Fellowship Grants relate to the observation and treatment of patients. Clinical science grants cover three main categories: Clinical Trials, Clinical Outcomes, and Translational Research that involves materials from human patients. Clinical Trials: should be designed to answer specific question(s) about new therapies or new ways of using known treatments. Preference will be given to prospective studies. Clinical Outcomes or Observational Studies: should be designed to better define the causes and/or consequences of pathological or biological processes in transplantation. Retrospective studies may be appropriate. However, proposals that analyze registry data (e.g. data collected by the United Network for Organ Sharing) are expected to test unique hypotheses or employ new data or methodologies. The analysis, including the statistics, should be performed by the applicant and not by the providing data registry group. The Influence of Public Policy on Transplantation: such studies are designed to evaluate the effects of public health care policy on health care delivery, medication choices, and/or outcomes pertaining to transplant recipients. Translational Research: projects involve human tissue or other biologic material for in vitro examination to address a clinical issue related to transplantation. In general, these studies should link the in vitro results to other data or outcomes from the same patients to be considered a clinical research fellowship proposal. IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: The AST will not assume responsibility for any clinical study funded by the AST Awards and Grants Program. Such proposals must be IRB-approved. Any responsibility will be assumed by the P.I. and the funded institution.
American Society of Transplantation Basic Science Faculty Development Grant
This is a two-year grant ($40,000/year) for Junior Faculty The goal of the AST Faculty Development Grants is to promote the careers of young independent investigators within the first 5 years of their first faculty appointment by providing funds allowing them to expand on preliminary research findings that will become the basis for individual research or career development awards from the NIH, VA, or equivalent agencies. This grant is intended to broadly support work in transplantation biology ranging from pertinent basic immunology to animal studies. All types of organ, tissue, and cell transplants will be considered. The project should provide a strong training vehicle for the applicant, in keeping with the overall mission of the AST Faculty Grants.
Application Deadline: MIDNIGHT Eastern time ON FRIDAY, November 21, 2008 IMPORTANT REMINDERS All applications for the AST Faculty Grants must be completed by Midnight Eastern Time on Friday, November 21, 2008. The application site for the AST Awards and Grants Program will automatically shut down after the deadline. No application or supplementary documents will be accepted after the submission deadline. Letters of recommendation with original/electronic signatures on institutional letterhead must be uploaded electronically to the online application. Original letters of recommendation must be mailed to the AST National Office, postmarked by the submission deadline and have an original signature on institutional letterhead. Confirmation e-mails will be sent out once an application is complete. DISCLAIMER: The AST will not assume responsibility for any clinical study funded by the AST Awards and Grants Program. Such proposals must be IRB-approved. Any responsibility will be assumed by the P.I. and the funded institution.
American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy Foundation/American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Combined Research Grant
Open to senior residents, faculty, or fellows for projects fostering basic or clinical research related to otolaryngic allergy, rhinology, or related immunology by otolaryngologists-head and neck surgeons. One year, non-renewable. $10,000 maximum.
The purpose of this award is to support a collaborative AAOA Foundation research project by fosteringbasic or clinical research related to otolaryngic allergy, rhinology, or related immunology byotolaryngologists-head and neck surgeons.B. ELIGIBILITY:Applicants must have demonstrated potential for excellence in research. There are no restrictions oncareer stage, education, or country of residence. AAOA members are preferred but not required. Allcandidates must be sponsored by the Chairperson of his/her Division or Department and by an officialrepresentative of the institution that would administer the Award and in whose name the application isformally submitted. Former recipients of an Academy Resident Grant, or Academy Research TrainingAward are eligible to compete for an AAOA Foundation grant. Other individuals who have alreadycompeted successfully for independent research grant support from a private or Federal funding agencyare ineligible for this Academy award program.C. CONDITIONS:Research should be specifically directed toward the study of otolaryngic allergy and may be either basicor clinical in nature. While not specifically required, proposals which aim to introduce new knowledge andmethodology from other disciplines to research in otolaryngologic allergy, or which demonstratecollaborative effort with members of other related disciplines are particularly encouraged. Accordingly,applications must be accompanied by a letter of support from the candidate's department chairpersonverifying that the candidate will be permitted to devote that amount of time to the pursuit of the proposedresearch and research training activities.Grantees are requested to give presentations at the AAOA annual meeting and submit the results forpublications. Grantees shall acknowledge the contribution of this source of funding. Applications must beaccompanied by a letter of support from the applicant’s Department Chair verifying that the applicant willbe permitted to devote an appropriate amount of time to the conduct and timely completion of theproposed research project. Applicants must obtain letters of support/understanding from all key personnelon the project.D. TERMS:1. Amount: $10,000 maximum2. Period: Projects must be completed within two years of the award date; no-cost extensions are3. available upon written request. Non-renewable.
All applicants must submit a Letter of Intent online no later than midnight Eastern Standard TimeDecember 15. The letter of intent includes the title of the project, the principal investigator, and anabstract of the work.
The National Blood Foundation (NBF), established in 1983, has a history of supporting research and education that advances transfusion medicine and blood banking to benefit both patients and donors.NBF is pleased to announce the availability of funding in 2009 for scientific research projectsrelated to transfusion medicine, to include aspects of immunology, hematology, tissue andtransplantation medicine, cellular therapies, emerging infectious disease, immunohematology,donor health and recruitment and retention, and implementation of technological advances.Priority is given to new investigators and innovative new projects with the potential to have apractical impact on patients and donors in transfusion medicine. Grant terms may be for one ortwo years, with a maximum total award per grant of $65,000 whether it is a one-year or two-yeargrant. Awards will be announced by June 2009 and funds will be dispersed in July 2009.Note that all applicants will be charged an application fee of $150 except for principalinvestigators who are individual members of AABB. AABB institutional membership does notqualify. To become an AABB member, please contact AABB Membership Services at+1.301.215.6489 or membership@aabb.org.
When you have completed the five-part application, please email as five separate pdf file attachments in a single email to nbf@aabb.org by Monday, December 15, 2008. No applications will be accepted after that date. You will receive an email that your application has been received. If you do not receive an email, please contact us.Notification of proposals selected for funding will be communicated in early June 2009 and funds will be disbursed in July 2009.If you have any questions on this application process, please contact the NBF at nbf@aabb.org or at +1.301.215.6552.National Blood Foundation8101 Glenbrook RoadBethesda, MD 20814-2749Phone +1.301.215.6552Fax +1.301.907.6895Email: nbf@aabb.org
Institutional Program Unifying Population and Laboratory Based Sciences
Application deadlines for 2010 awards: Letter of Intent: March 2, 2009 by 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time Full Application (by invitation only): May 15, 2009 by 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time By electronic application only. Five-year institutional training awards provide $500,000 a year to bridge the gap between the population and computational sciences and the laboratory-based biological sciences. The award will support the training of researchers between existing concentrations of research strength in population approaches to human health and in basic biological sciences. The goal is to establish training programs by partnering researchers working in schools of medicine and schools (or academic divisions) of public health.
Eligibility Understanding human health will be a focal priority for the programs that are funded. There is ample room for building on institutional strengths to achieve this focus, for example: institutional interests in chronic diseases, autoimmune diseases, infectious diseases, genetic diseases, toxicology and environmental exposures, reproductive health, and other areas where questions relating to human health are ripe for exploration at both the population and molecular scales. Likewise, institutional strengths in applied mathematics and modeling, statistics, genomics, bioinformatics and other informatics and data-driven sciences including geography and demographics, and phenomic approaches could provide excellent foundations for programs which encourage such work, as would strengths in population biology; epidemiology; human or disease ecology, anthropology, econometrics, and other population-focused quantitative fields. Supported programs will train graduate students to the Ph.D. level, but programs may additionally propose giving training access to postdoctoral fellows, medical students, medical residents, masters students, undergraduates, or other kinds of trainees. Some examples of problems where such an approach would be beneficial include but are not limited to multifactorial disease processes evolution of and relationships between host, pathogen, vector, and reservoirs biomarker identification and validation effects of environmental exposure to toxins, allergens, and immunogens Proposals Degree-granting institutions in the U.S. or Canada may submit applications. Proposals must be driven by core components within medical and public health schools, but beyond those required components, departments or centers located within non-medical parts of a university, existing inter-institutional collaboratives, research museums, free-standing research institutes, and other non-profit institutions that provide advanced-level training are all acceptable as potential additional partners. Dental, osteopathic, and veterinary medical schools are appropriate applicants. Comparative medicine and animal science departments are advised to discuss their planned proposal with the program officer to ensure that their proposal will be human-focused enough to be competitive. Proposals that cross institutional boundaries are encouraged. Research groups working at national laboratories and within the federal government are allowable as partners, but funding to students doing research within these institutions must be channeled through an appropriate degree-granting institution. For-profit companies may not participate in the application, but could be valuable partners in such training programs. Proposals that may offer students access to research opportunities involving work in or data from the for-profit sector are welcome.
Burroughs Wellcome Fund Post Office Box 13901 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-3901 Telephone: (919) 991-5100 Fax: (919) 991-5160
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