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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation: Clinical Scientist Development Award
Program Summary
The Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award provides grants to junior physician-scientists to facilitate their transition to independent clinical research careers. The foundation plans to award up to 14 three-year grants in 2010 of $125,000 per year in direct costs and $10,000 per year in indirect costs to junior faculty level physician-scientists conducting clinical research in any disease area (please see additional information link below for the disease/specialty area reference document which provides a list of the areas).
Research Commitment
The intent of this award is to provide support for intensive, mentored research career development to help establish the grantee as an independent clinical investigator. Therefore, should an award be made, the institution must agree to provide the grantee with a minimum of 75% of full-time professional effort to conduct research. There is no explicit minimum percent effort that must be dedicated to the CSDA project. However, if salary support is requested, the percent effort committed must be equal or greater than the percentage of salary charged. Milestones met and progress will be evaluated to assess whether adequate time is spent on the CSDA project.
Eligibility
This program is specifically intended to help physician-scientists make the critical transition from training to independence as clinical investigators.
Applicants must:
• Be a physician-scientist conducting clinical research in any disease area;
• Have received an M.D. or a foreign equivalent from an accredited institution;
• Be working in a U.S. degree-granting institution, but do not have to be a U.S. citizen;
• Have a full-time faculty level position not higher than the Assistant Professor level; and
• Have been appointed to their first full-time faculty level position between January 1, 2005 and January 1, 2010. (All full-time post-fellowship Instructor level positions will be considered full-time faculty level appointments.)
There are no fellowship level or research associate level awards as part of this competition. In addition, an award will not be made if, prior to the commencement of this award, the applicant has been or becomes the principal investigator on a National Institutes of Health, peer-reviewed, R01 research grant and/or the principal investigator on a research project that is part of a P01 program project or a P50 center grant.
Applicants are allowed to hold a National Institutes of Health K series award or other career development award at the same time as the CSDA grant. However, applicants must propose distinct and different research aims in their CSDA application and there should be no scientific or budgetary overlap.
Experiments that utilize animals or primary tissues derived from animals will not be supported by this program.
Nominations of women and under-represented minorities in medicine, including Blacks or African Americans, Hispanics or Latinos, American Indians, Alaskan Natives, and Native Hawaiians is strongly encouraged.
UIC is allowed to submit nominations for two candidates.
Additional Information
http://www.ddcf.org/page.asp?pageId=291
Deadlines
| UIC Internal Notice of Intent (mandatory) | October 22, 2009 3:00PM |
| UIC Internal Competition | TBD |
| Sponsor Nomination Due | November 17, 2009 5:00PM EST |
| Sponsor Full Proposal | December 22, 2009 |
Letter of Intent Instructions
- By submitting this form, applicant attests that s/he has read and meets the sponsor's eligibility criteria for this program. The LOI can be emailed to RDS@uic.edu, Attn: Chang Lee.
- 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.
LOI form: http://tigger.uic.edu/depts/ovcr/research/funding/forms/0600.doc
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 issued to those submitting LOIs, if necessary.
Please contact Chang Lee at clee10@uic.edu or 6-1961 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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