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Burroughs Wellcome Fund - Career Awards for Medical Scientists

Internal Competition Completed

Principal Investigators Selected:

• Ankit Desai, Medicine
• David Gavin, Psychiatry

Program Summary

This program provides $700,000 over five years for physician-scientists to bridge advanced postdoctoral/fellowship training and the early years of faculty service.  Proposals must be in the area of basic biomedical, disease oriented, or translational research.  

General Eligibility requirements 

• Must have an M.D., D.D.S, D.V.M., or equivalent clinical degrees.  Pharm.D. or Pharm.D, Ph.D degrees are not eligible.
• Must be a clinical fellow, resident, or a postdoctoral researcher and have at least two years of research experience at time of application.
• Candidates who hold a junior faculty appointment (Lecturer, Instructor, Assistant Professor-non-tenure track, etc) may be eligible.  If your position is a mentored one and you have at least 24 months of postdoctoral research experience, and have been in a faculty position for two years or less at the time of application you may be eligible.  To meet this requirement, your junior faculty appointment (non-tenure) must have begun no earlier than July 1, 2009. . 
• Candidates with tenure-track appointments as an Instructor of Assistant Professor at the time of application are not eligible.
• Must not be more than 10 years past their most recent doctorate.
• Proposals in health services research or involving large-scale clinical trials are ineligible.
• Applications also encouraged from those who work in reproductive science.
• Must be citizens or permanent residents of the U.S. or Canada at the time of application. 
• Recipients required to devote at least 75 percent of their time to research related activities.
• Other eligibility criteria apply – please read sponsor’s complete announcement for all conditions, restrictions, and FAQs  to ensure your eligibility.  The sponsor also has  an eligibility quiz to assist you in determining whether or not you are eligible. 

Additional information:  http://www.bwfund.org/pages/266/CAMS-Program-Application-(Pre-Award)/

UIC can nominate up to 5 candidates.   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). 

Deadlines

Letter of Intent

OVCR may reserve submission slots for previously submitted but unfunded proposals that received highly competitive ratings from the external sponsor. These will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis by the Vice Chancellor. For consideration, scanned copies of your complete reviews (not just summary) must be included with LOI.

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 Tony Halford at ahalford@uic.edu or 6-7036 with any questions.

If an authorized principal investigator is not listed above, please consider the limited competition still open. Contact RDS@uic.edu for further information.

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