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Mallinckrodt Foundation - Grants

Internal Competition Completed

Principal Investigators Selected:

• Evgeny Berdyshev, Medicine  (May 1 deadline)
• Sandeep Jain, Ophthalmology  (May 1 deadline)
• Ayako Makino, Medicine - Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism  (August 1 deadline)
• Jaehyung Cho, Pharmacology   (August 1 deadline)

Program Summary

The basic aim of the Foundation is to dispense that amount of yearly income required by law for the purpose of advancing knowledge in the various fields of medical and health research. It is further the general aim to confine contributions to those worthy projects that are in need of initial start-up funding to move the projects forward to the point of other independent support or to support highly promising young investigators at the time when start-up funds are limited and initial progress is dependent on additional funding. It is not the intent to support projects that are already under way and are already receiving significant grant support to provide long-range funding beyond an initial 3-year period of support. Award request can range between $50,000 to $75,000 per year. The project period can range between one to three years. The Foundation will not fund overhead. Grants will be made and restricted to domestic institutions. A proposal must be accompanied by letters of approval by the dean of the medical school or other senior faculty member or members who can represent the support of the institution and who are acquainted with the qualifications of the applicant.

Additional Information

Eligibility

Per the foundation:

•  Nominees should have appointments as assistant professors - however, tenure track is not required (e.g. Research Assistant Professor is acceptable).   Instructors, clinical instructor and clinical educator line faculty are not eligible.
• If the applicant does not currently hold a faculty title, but there is a plan to appoint the individual to a faculty title (e.g. Research Assistant Professor) prior to the grant date, the individual may apply and indicate their pending status appointment change.
• Do not need to be a citizen or PR i.e H-1B visa holder may apply
• The foundation will permit collaborative proposals (i.e., co-PIs [faculty] are permitted)
• The Foundation is most interested in basic research with upstream potential for impacting disease.
• No clinical research can be considered

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.

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.

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