Veterinary Medicine Grants

The Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program within the Policy and Global Affairs Division of the National Academies is designed to engage graduate science, engineering, medical, veterinary, business, public policy, and law students in the analytical process that informs the creation of national policy-making with a science/technology element. As a result, students develop basic skills essential to working in the world of science policy.

Eligibility: Applications for the fellowships are invited from graduate students through post-doctoral scholars in any physical, biological, or social science field or any field of engineering, medicine/health, or veterinary medicine as well as business, law, education, and other graduate and professional programs.

Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and those who have completed graduate studies or postdoctoral research within the last 5 years are eligible to apply.

What is the stipend?

Answer: The stipend for a 10-week program is $5,300.

The fellowship stipend is intended to offset living expenses for the period and not intended as a way to earn money.

Note that fellows may at their and their mentor’s option be extended beyond the official session’s term on a case-by-case basis. Fellows may be compensated at the current weekly grant level for the extension period. This decision will not be made until midway through the program. Extensions will not be made past the start date of the next fellowship program session.

The National Academies Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program
500 5th Street, NW, Room 508
Washington, DC 20001
Email: policyfellows@nas.edu

The Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program within the Policy and Global Affairs Division of the National Academies is designed to engage graduate science, engineering, medical, veterinary, business, public policy, and law students in the analytical process that informs the creation of national policy-making with a science/technology element. As a result, students develop basic skills essential to working in the world of science policy.

What is the stipend?

Answer: The stipend for a 10-week program is $5,300.

The fellowship stipend is intended to offset living expenses for the period and not intended as a way to earn money.

Note that fellows may at their and their mentor’s option be extended beyond the official session’s term on a case-by-case basis. Fellows may be compensated at the current weekly grant level for the extension period. This decision will not be made until midway through the program. Extensions will not be made past the start date of the next fellowship program session.

The National Academies Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program
500 5th Street, NW, Room 508
Washington, DC 20001
Email: policyfellows@nas.edu

The Mayday Fund’s current grant-making targets are:

* projects that result in clinical interventions to reduce the toll of physical pain

* pediatric pain

* pain in non-verbal populations

* pain in the context of emergency medicine

Mayday will also continue to be proactive in its commitment to promote networking between veterinary and human medicine, especially in an effort to inform measurements of pain in non-verbal populations. Finally, the Trustees of the Mayday Fund wish to be nimble enough to respond as special opportunities present themselves.

There are no deadlines. All applications for funding or proposals of other kinds are offered for consideration at the next Trustee's meeting.

Grants are made only to public charities and educational institutions officially recognized as such by the IRS. The Mayday Fund concentrates its activities in the United States. On occasion, grants have been made to Canadian organizations when the project has an effect that reaches beyond Canada. Grants cannot be made to individuals.

For all initial or new contacts please send an email to:
Christina Spellman, Executive Director inquiry@maydayfund.org

Please - mail and phone contacts only after initial email communication. (Note this is an updated address).

The MAYDAY FUND
c/o SPG
136 West 21st Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10011

The WALTHAM Foundation

The Waltham Foundation is dedicated to pushing forward the frontiers of humane scientific research into the nutrition and healthy longevity of companion animals.

Since it’s inception in 2001, the WALTHAM Foundation has received more than 500 proposals, funded projects in 20 countries, and provided over $500,000 towards research that directly improves the health and welfare of our companion animals worldwide. The vast number of internationally recognized presentations and peer-reviewed publications emanating from this work is a testament to the scientific caliber of the proposals we receive and to the quality of the investigations which we have supported. WALTHAM is proud to be in partnerships with the world’s leading researchers.

In 2009, the WALTHAM Foundation is offering grants of up to US$15,000 to scientists, veterinarians and nutritionists globally to improve and enrich the lives of our companion animals. Projects may be of a veterinary, nutritional, or behavioural nature. All projects must comply with WALTHAM's ethical guiding principles: the research must not inflict suffering or result in the euthanasia of the animals involved. All clinical studies must have informed owner consent.

We invite you to apply for a grant in 2009. Please be as specific as possible in the descriptions of the project and funds required.

APPLICATION DEADLINES - All applications are due by 1st February 2009.

SELECTION PROCESS

All applications are evaluated by a team of scientists to ensure that each project we support complies with our ethical principles, that the science is of a high standard, and that the research will increase our collective knowledge and benefit the care or well-being of companion animals. Please note that each year, we receive numerous high quality applications, so do not be discouraged should your application not be selected. All applications are kept under strict confidentiality. We appreciate your interest in the WALTHAM Foundation.

If you require further information please contact us at waltham.foundation@waltham.com

Basmajian Award
Nomination deadline: October 15th
Materials deadline: December 1st

This award recognizes health science faculty who are in the formative stages of their career, teach human or veterinary gross anatomy, can document excellence in their contribution to the teaching of gross anatomy, and have outstanding accomplishments in biomedical research or scholarship in education. Only AAA members may submit a nomination; however, the proposed award recipient need not be an AAA member.

The Basmajian Award recipient receives:
• A plaque
• A $1,000 honorarium
• Travel reimbursement (2 nights)
• Two years free membership in the American Association of Anatomists
• Two years of registration at the EB meeting will be waived including the year of the award
• Invitation to serve on AAA's Educational Affairs Committee

American Association of Anatomists
9650 Rockville Pike Bethesda, Maryland 20814-3998
Tel: 301-634-7910 Fax: 301-634-7965 exec@anatomy.org