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Pfizer Visiting Professorships in Infectious Diseases
Program Summary
The Pfizer Visiting Professorships in Infectious Diseases program facilitates in-depth, educationally focused visits by prominent medical experts to US medical schools and/or teaching hospitals. These unrestricted educational grants are nationally competitive, and an independent academic advisory board of recognized leaders in infectious diseases chooses grant recipients.
Up to 8 grants of $7500 each will be awarded to selected organizations (“host institutions”) to cover the visiting professors’ honoraria, travel expenses, and other direct expenses related to the visit. A visit may occur between July 2009 and June 2010. The purpose of the visit is to bring new educational value to the institution; therefore, it cannot be part of or adjunct to a previously planned or regularly scheduled program/event. The advisory board will aim to award topics in the following areas: management and treatment of fungal infections; management and treatment of MRSA; and management and treatment of treatment-experienced HIV/AIDS patients.
Eligibility:
Accredited US medical schools (allopathic or osteopathic) and/or affiliated teaching hospitals with departments/divisions of infectious diseases, or any other departments/divisions, adult or pediatric, engaged in the study of infectious diseases are eligible to apply. The department/division head should serve as the “host” of the visiting professor and the visit.
Institutions with new, emerging, and community-based research and/or clinical programs, as well as academic/community partnerships, are encouraged to apply. Organizations that do not typically have the opportunity to bring in prominent experts should consider this program. The applicant may choose a visiting professor who is a regionally, nationally, or internationally known expert.
UIC may submit one application per department/division engaged in the study of infectious diseases.
Additional Information
http://www.promisingminds.com/AwardDetails.aspx?AwardID=2139
Deadlines
| UIC Internal Letter of Intent (mandatory) | January 27, 2009 |
| UIC Internal Competition | TBD |
| Sponsor Full Proposals | January 31, 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.
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.
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