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Pfizer Fellowships

Internal Competition Completed

Principal Investigators Selected:

• Raymond Massenberg, Research Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health
• Chandani Udawatte, Assistant Professor, Section of Endocrinology, College of Medicine
• May Yazeji, Assistant Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine-Peoria

Program Summary

Through Medical and Academic Partnerships (MAP), Pfizer is pleased to support the career development and promotion of talented junior physician-scientists or researchers through their Fellowship programs. These nationally competitive awards support talented postdoctoral researchers early in their careers.

Fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis with grant payments typically beginning in July of each year for 2 years. Award recipients are selected by an independent academic advisory board of prominent medical academicians specific to that program's therapeutic area or discipline.

Below is a listing of three Fellowships requiring internal coordination:

Pfizer Fellowship in Health Disparities

Program Objective
To support the career development of talented junior researchers.

Program Design
One grant of $130,000, paid over 2 years.
Award is intended for salary support.

Eligibility
US citizen or US permanent resident who:
• Has a doctoral-level degree.
• Has an appointment as a postdoctoral fellow with an accredited institution.
• Have at least 1 year of postdoctoral research training/experience appropriate for the   research proposed.
• Does not hold a full-time tenure track faculty position or the equivalent in the first year   of fellowship.

Program Objective
To support the career development of talented junior researchers.

Program Design
One grant of $130,000, paid over 2 years.
Award is intended for salary support.

Eligibility
US citizen or US permanent resident who:
• Holds a junior faculty position and has a doctoral-level degree.
• Is within 2 years of appointment as an instructor, an assistant professor, or an   equivalent junior faculty rank at an accredited program or school of   medicine, public   health, public policy or pharmacy.

Pfizer Fellowship in Public Health

Program Objective
To support the career development of junior faculty in public health.

Program Design
One grant of $130,000, paid over 2 years.
Award is intended for salary support.

Eligibility
US citizen or US permanent resident who:
• Holds a junior faculty position and has a doctoral-level degree.
• Is within 2 years of appointment as an instructor, an assistant professor, or an   equivalent junior faculty rank.
• Is employed by an accredited school/program.

For each program, UIC is allowed to submit more than 1 application provided each application is from a different department/division. However, only 1 Pfizer Fellowship in Health Policy will be granted per institution per year.

Additional Information 
http://www.pfizermap.com/GrantsProgType.aspx?ProgTypeID=3

Deadlines

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.
• Departmental Approval is required when submitting the LOI.
• 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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