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Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Career Awards for Medical Scientists

Internal Competition Completed

Principal Investigators Selected:

• Kirk Hevener, Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
• Jennifer Layden, Department of Medicine

Program Summary

Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS) provide $700,000 over five years to bridge advanced postdoctoral/fellowship training and the early years of faculty service.  Candidate eligibility and institutional nomination requirements are set out below.

Candidates
The ideal candidate will be two years away from becoming an independent investigator, have at least two years or more of postdoctoral research experience, and have a significant publication record.

• Candidates must hold an M.D., D.D.S., D.V.M., Pharm.D., or equivalent clinical degree.
• Proposals 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 the eligibility of the proposal. Proposals in health services research or involving large-scale clinical trials are ineligible.
• BWF encourages nominations from candidates who work in reproductive science.
• Candidates must be a clinical fellow, resident,  or a postdoctoral researcher and have at least two years of postdoctoral research experience at the time of application.
• Candidates who hold a junior faculty appointment (Lecturer, Instructor, Assistant Professor-non tenure track, etc.) 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 degree.  No exceptions will be made.
• Candidates with a clinical degree not awarded in the U.S. or Canada must be fully licensed to practice in the U.S. or Canada.
• Candidates must be committed to a full-time career in research as an independent investigator at a North American degree-granting institution.
• Candidates must be nominated by accredited, degree-granting institutions in the U.S. or Canada.
• Candidates must be citizens or permanent residents of the U.S. or Canada at the time of application.  Persons who have applied for permanent resident status but have not received their government documentation by the time of application are not eligible.
• Permanent residents of the U.S. must provide a copy of their Permanent Resident Card with the application.
• Permanent residents of Canada must provide a copy of their Landed Immigrant Status form with the application.

UIC is restricted to five applications.  BWF encourages institutions to nominate women and underrepresented minorities.  If a woman or underrepresented minority is nominated within the initial five candidates, a sixth candidate may be nominated provided that candidate is a woman or underrepresented minority (i.e. African American, Hispanic, or Native American).

Additional Information 
http://www.bwfund.org/pages/188/Career-Awards-for-Medical-Scientists/

Deadlines

Letter of Intent

Depending upon the number of LOIs submitted, OVCR might be required to facilitate an internal peer review process to select UIC’s submission(s) to this program.  White paper instructions will be posted if necessary.

Depending upon the number of LOIs submitted, OVCR might be required to facilitate an internal peer review process to select UIC’s submission(s) to this program.  White paper instructions will be posted if necessary.

eLOI Form & Instructions – Adobe Acrobat Requirements

1. Download the file directly to your computer or to a disk, right click on the link, then select "save link as" or "save target as" from the dropdown options.
2. Open eLOI.
3. Position the hand pointer inside a form field and click.
• To accept the field change and go to the next field, press Tab or use your mouse to click on the next form field.
• To accept the field change and go to the previous field, press Shift + Tab or use your mouse to click on the previous form field.
4. Complete the form fields.
5. After completing the form, click “Save” then click “Submit to RDS@uic.edu”.

Letter of Intent (LOI): eLOI Form (Fillable PDF*)

*Please note:

• Fields highlighted in red are required to successfully submit the form.
• Do not print then submit scanned version of e-LOI via email.

Please contact Jennifer Czak at jpaliga@uic.edu or 6-2590 with any questions.

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