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NIH – Women's Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) Career Development Program (K12) RFA-HD-08-014

Program summary

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) is to solicit applications to continue to support a national program of mentored institutional career development programs for junior faculty who have recently completed postgraduate clinical training in obstetrics and gynecology, and are committed to an independent research career in women's reproductive health. The supervised research training will assist junior faculty in their transition into productive, physician scientists in areas related to obstetrics and gynecology and its subspecialties.

The total project period for an application may not exceed five years. Direct costs are limited to $440,000 per year. Up to $65,000 in direct costs annually may be requested for the Administrative Budget. Up to $375,000 direct costs annually may be requested for three Scholars in the Scholars’ Budget.

UIC is restricted to one application.

Additional Information
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HD-08-014.html

Deadlines

UIC Internal Letter of Intent (mandatory)	December 15, 2008
UIC Internal Competition	TBD
Sponsor Letter of Intent	February 27, 2009
Sponsor Full Proposal	March 27, 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: Jennifer Czak
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.