Fwd: [Restrictedfoundationrfps] Burroughs Wellcome Fund 2009 Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS)
Debra L. Martin
debra at MIT.EDU
Wed Jun 4 09:55:16 EDT 2008
FYI, funding opportunity for postdocs.
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>Subject: [Restrictedfoundationrfps] Burroughs Wellcome Fund 2009 Career
> Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS)
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>The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is seeking applications for the 2009
>Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS).
>http://www.bwfund.org/programs/CAMS/cams_background.html
>
>The Burroughs Wellcome Fund's Career Awards for Medical Scientists
>is the result of the reformulation of the Career Awards in the
>Biomedical Sciences program. In response to the National Institutes
>of Health's (www.nih.gov) K99/R00 Pathway to Independence awards,
>the BWF has shifted focus to address the ongoing problem of
>increasing the number of physician scientists and keeping them in
>research. BWF believes that this bridging award, supporting the
>last year(s) of a mentored position in addition to supporting the
>beginning years of an independent position, will facilitate the
>transition to a career in research and buy time from service
>commitments.
>
>Researchers who hold or have accepted a tenure track faculty
>appointment ARE NOT eligible to apply.
>
>MIT may nominate up to five candidates. If a woman or
>underrepresented minority is included, the institution may nominate
>six candidates. BWF encourages institutions to nominate
>underrepresented minorities and female candidates.
>
>The program provides $700,000 over five years to bridge advanced
>postdoctoral/fellowship training and the early years of faculty
>service. Researchers who hold or have accepted a tenure track
>faculty appointment ARE NOT eligible to apply.
>
>MIT will accept the Career Awards for Medical Scientists as a
>two-year postdoctoral fellowship award. There will be NO
>underrecovery or fund fee accessed on the fellowship. (This is the
>same policy MIT used in 2006 & 2007.)
>
>Anyone wishing to submit a nomination for this award should send: a
>brief proposal, PI CV and a preliminary budget to Debra Martin,
>Programs Manager, 11-268 by Thursday, July 31, 2008.
>
>Because of summer vacation schedules the internal competition due
>date is early to provide enough time for the Selection Committee to
>choose the finalists.
>
>*********************************************************
>General requirements:
> * Candidates must hold an M.D., D.D.S., D.V.M.,
>Pharm.D., or equivalent clinical degree.
> * Proposals must be in the area of basic biomedical,
>disease oriented, translational, or molecular, genetic, or
>pharmacological epidemiology research. Proposals that are in the
>area of epidemiology should contact BWF to determine the eligibility
>of the proposal. Proposals in health services research or involving
>large-scale clinical trials are ineligible.
> * BWF encourages nominations from candidates who work
>in reproductive science.
> * During the postdoctoral and faculty periods, grants
>must be made to degree-granting institutions in the U.S. or Canada
>on behalf of the award recipient.
> * Award recipients are required to devote at least 75
>percent of their time to research-related activities.
> * Indirect costs may not be charged against BWF grants.
>The postdoctoral/fellowship portion of the award:
> * May last a maximum of two years.
> * Allows the awardee to use up to $95,000 per year.
> * Allows maximum salary support of $65,000 per year.
> * Requires that any equipment purchased by the award
>recipient be transferable to the institution providing the faculty
>appointment.
> * Allows the unpaid balance of the postdoctoral portion
>of the award to be added to the faculty portion of the award if an
>award recipient moves to a faculty position in less than two years.
>Salary and Fringe Benefits
> * If an institution's salary scale for the position is
>higher than the salary amounts provided by the award, then the
>institution must supplement the awardee's salary.
> * Institutions are expected to make a contribution to
>the awardee's salary to maximize the amount that can be used for
>research expenses.
> * BWF will pay an administrative fee of 10 percent to
>the institution to cover the awardee's fringe benefits, such as
>health insurance and retirement. The institution is expected to
>cover the remainder of these costs as an indication of support for
>the awardee.
> * Institutions that pay for fringe benefits from their
>own funds may keep the fee as reimbursement for administering the
>grant or reallocate the fee to the awardee's research expenses.
> * The balance of the award is to be used to cover
>research expenses, at the discretion of the award recipient. These
>funds may be used flexibly for items such as equipment, consumable
>supplies, travel to scientific meetings, or laboratory personnel.
>Faculty Appointments
> * When an awardee moves to a tenure-track position, any
>remaining balance of the postdoctoral/fellowship portion of the
>award will be transferred to the faculty institution and added to
>the faculty portion of the award.
> * BWF requires institutions to make a monetary
>commitment to an awardee's career before the awardee begins the
>faculty portion of the award.
> * BWF strongly prefers tenure-track appointments,
>accompanied by salary support or support for starting a laboratory,
>or both.
> * BWF reserves the right to terminate the faculty
>portion of the award if the institutional commitment is deemed
>inadequate.
> * If an awardee chooses to accept a faculty position at
>a research institute, the research institute must be closely
>affiliated with a degree-granting institution, adn the
>degree-granting institution must offer the awardee a joint
>tneure-track faculty position with some commitment to the awardee.
> * All faculty appointments must be approved by BWF.
> * Awardees must begin the faculty portion of the award
>no later than five years fom the award date.
>
>--
>*****************************************
>Debra L. Martin, Programs Manager
>MIT
>Vice President for Research Office, Rm 11-268
>77 Massachusetts Avenue
>Cambridge, MA 02139
>617-258-0310, 617-252-1003 (fax)
>debra at mit.edu
>
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Debra L. Martin, Programs Manager
MIT
Vice President for Research Office, Rm 11-268
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-258-0310, 617-252-1003 (fax)
debra at mit.edu
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