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<div>From the Office of Foundation Relations [MIT]</div>
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<p class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal">Below you
will find information on a call for applications for
the Burroughs Wellcome Fund's Underrepresented
Minority Postdoctoral Enrichment Program.</p>
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forward to anyone who might be interested. </p>
<div><i><b>NOTE:</b><span style="font-weight:bold"> </span><b>The
Office of Foundation Relations would be pleased
to provide assistance to anyone applying for a
grant from this program.</b><span
style="font-weight:bold"> </span><b>It would
also be helpful for us to know if someone has
applied, whether or not we assist him/her. For
more information, including a list of recently
issued requests, please visit our website (</b></i><b><a
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href="http://web.mit.edu/ofr/">http://foundations.mit.edu/</a>).</b></div>
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<div><b>Deadline: January 15, 2013 by 4:00 p.m., EST</b></div>
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<div><b><span class="x_x_Apple-style-span"
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font-weight:normal">The URM Postdoctoral Enrichment
Program award provides a total of $50,000 over three
years as outlined below to support the development of a
URM postdoctoral fellow in a degree-granting institution
(or its affiliated graduate and medical schools,
hospitals and research institutions) in the United
States or Canada. Individual URM postdoctoral fellows
conducting biomedical or medical research are eligible
to apply. </span></b></div>
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<div><span class="x_x_Apple-style-span"
style="color:rgb(51,51,51); line-height:17px">This award
cannot be used to provide the postdoctoral fellow's salary
or to purchase reagents or equipment commonly found in the
mentor's laboratory. </span></div>
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<li><font class="x_x_Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><span
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style="line-height:16px">Year one: $20,000 will be
granted to support enrichment activities of the
postdoctoral fellow ($10,000 for research supplies
or equipment uniquely required to enhance the
postdoctoral fellow's research and $10,000 for
education and training, including for mentors in
the research lab where the postdoctoral fellow is
assigned.)</span></span></font></li>
<li><font class="x_x_Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><span
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style="line-height:16px">Year two: $20,000 (same
allocation as year one)</span></span></font></li>
<li><font class="x_x_Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><span
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style="line-height:17px"><span
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style="line-height:16px">Year three: $10,000 will
be granted for enrichment activities for the
postdoctoral fellow to advance his/her research.</span></span></font></li>
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<div><span class="x_x_Apple-style-span"
style="color:rgb(51,51,51); line-height:17px">Applicants
must have secured a postdoctoral position with funding
(including support by the advisor's existing research
grants) at a degree-granting, research-intensive
institution in the United States or Canada and must begin
the postdoctoral position on or by the designated award
commencement date. A person with more than 36 months of
postdoctoral experience (in a research laboratory) at the
time of application or with more than five years from
his/her Ph.D. is not eligible for this award. <br>
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The program targets postdoctoral fellows with Ph.Ds in the
biomedical or medical sciences. Applicants with M.D.
degrees who have secured a postdoctoral research
appointment beyond clinical fellowship will be considered
for this program. Applicants must be underrepresented
minorities (i.e. American Indian or Alaska Native, Black
or African American, Hispanic, or Native Hawaiian or other
Pacific Islander) and must be citizens of the United
States or Canada.</span></div>
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<div>Visit the Burroughs Wellcome Fund's website for
complete program information and application
procedures: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://dev.bwfund.org/pages/667/Underrepresented-Minority-Postdoctoral-Enrichment/">http://dev.bwfund.org/pages/667/Underrepresented-Minority-Postdoctoral-Enrichment/</a>. </div>
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