Upcoming Awards

Grants
Sponsor	Name of Award	Eligibility	Restrictions
AAMC	Nickens Minority Faculty Fellowship	Assistant professor - help achieve institutional diversity objectives/ eliminate health care disparities.	Award Amount: $15K Deadline: April One application per institution.
Burroughs Wellcome Fund	Interfaces in Science	PhD in Mathematics, Physics, Chem, Computer Science, Stat, Engineering.	Award Amount: $500K over three years Deadline:May Two applications per institution. Only one U.S. / Canada resident.
Burroughs Wellcome Fund	Career Awards in Biomedical Science	Bridging support for advanced postdoc training and initial faculty years.	Award Amount: $58,000-$128,000/yr for 5 yrs Deadline: October Up to six applications per institution.
Burroughs Wellcome Fund	Career Awards at the Scientific Interface	Bridging support for advanced postdoc training and initial faculty years.	Award Amount: up to $500,000 for 5 yrs Deadline: May Up to two applications per institution (3 if one of the candidates = minority).
Burroughs Wellcome Fund	Clinical Scientist Awards in Translational Research	M.D. or M.D.-Ph.D. with appointment or joint appointment in a subspecialty of clinical medicine.	Award Amount: $750K over 5 years Deadline: October Two applications per institution.
Charles A. Dana Foundation	Program in Brain and Immuno-Imaging	Application of imaging research to improve understanding of the brain, the immune system, and their interactions in health and disease.	Award Amount: up to $100K over 3 years (conventional imaging); up to $300K over 3 yrs (emerging imaging technologies) Deadline: May Two applications per institution, one for each track.
JP Morgan Bank	Sinsheimer Scholar Award	Assistant Professor in first 3 yrs - research on prevention or cure of human disease.	Award Amount: $150,000 payable over 3 yrs Deadline: March One application per institution.
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation	Damon Runyon Scholar Award	Candidate must be MD or MD/PhD in cancer or cancer-related specialty within first 3 years of assistant professor appointment.	Award Amount:$100K/yr for three years Deadline: July Two applications per institution. One basic scientist, one physician scientist in clinical dept.
Doris Duke Foundation	Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award	MD or MD/PhD physician-scientistsat associate professor level engaged in translational research.	Award Amount: $1.5M over five to seven years, incl $100K/yr for training/ mentoring junior investigators Deadline: not in 2005 Two applications per institution.
Ellison Medical Foundation	New Scholar Award in: - Global Infectious Disease - Aging	New faculty - first 3 years after postdoctoral training.	Award Amount: up to $50K/yr for four years Deadline: March One application for each category.
Goldman Philanthropic Partnerships	Charles E. Culpeper Scholarship in Medical Science	Young physicians (MD)- assistant professors.	Award Amount: up to $100,000/yr for 3 yrs Deadline: August One application per institution.
Irma T. Hirschl Trust	Irma T. Hirschl/Monique Weill-Caulier Trust Research Awards	Jr. Faculty	Award Amount: $35K/yr for five years Deadline: November Internal - Two awards @ MSSM
John Merck Fund	Scholars Program for Research on Children's Developmental Disabilities	Assistant Professors - not more than 4 yrs at this rank.	Award Amount: $300K over four years Deadline: January Two applications per institution. One neurobiologist, one cognitive scientist.
Mary Kay Ash Foundation	Mary Kay Ash Award	Focuses on funding research for innovative grants for translational research in ovarian, uterine, breast or cervical cancer.	Award Amount: up to $100K for two years Deadline: March One application per institution.
Pew	Pew Scholars Program in Biomedical Sciences	Assistant professors, not more than 3 yrs at this rank, any track, engaged in research relevant to human health.	Award Amount:$60K/yr for four years Deadline: November One application per institution.
Searle	Searle Scholars Program	Ass't Prof - not more than two years in first assistant professor appointment in basic science department.	Award Amount: $80K/yr for three years Deadline: September Two applications from institution.
Charles H. Revson Foundation	Senior Fellowships in the Life Sciences	Postdocs with 2-3 yrs experience currently in a NYC medical school.	Award Amount: ~$65K/yr for 2 yrs Deadline: March Two applications per institution.
PRIZES/CASH AWARDS
Sponsor	Name of Award	Eligibility	Restrictions
AAMC	Abraham Flexner Award - contributions to medical education	Highest honor academic medicine presents for sustained contributions to American Medical Education.	Award Amount: $10K Deadline: May One application per institution.
AAMC	Outstanding Community Service Award	Institutional award for broad-based continuing commitment to community service.	Award Amount: Commemorative crystal piece Deadline: April One application per institution.
AAMC	Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teaching Award	Assistant Professor or higher rank.	Award Amount: $10K to recipient, $5K to institution; $1K to chapter Deadline: May One application per institution.
General Motors Cancer Research Foundation	Kettering Prize	Outstanding recent contribution to diagnosis or treatment of cancer.	Award Amount: $250K and gold medal Deadline: November Nominations by invitation only.
General Motors Cancer Research Foundation	Mott Prize	Contribution to cause or prevention of cancer.	Award Amount: $250K and gold medal Deadline: November Nominations by invitation only.
General Motors Cancer Research Foundation	Sloan Prize	Basic science related to cancer.	Award Amount: $250K and gold medal Deadline: November Nominations by invitation only.
Warren Alpert Foundation	Warren Alpert Foundation Prize	For prevention, cure, or treatment of a disease or disorder that afflicts humankind.	Award Amount: $100K Deadline: August One application per institution.
MSSM Donor	Dr. Haroldand Golden Lamport Research Award	Jr. faculty (first five years of tenure track assistant professor appointment) in either basic science or clinical research.	Award Amount: $5000 -- up to 4 awards/yr Deadline: November Internal - by nomination of Chair or Medicine Division Chief.

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