2010 BWF Career Awards for Medical Scientists [CAM] --INTERNAL competition required

[Debra L Martin]

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is seeking applications for the 2010-11 Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS).
http://www.bwfund.org/pages/188/Career-Awards-for-Medical-Scientists/

FAQs
http://www.bwfund.org/pages/192/FAQs/

New Eligibility guideline: Candidates who hold a junior faculty appointment (Lecturer, Instructor, Assistant Professor-non tenure track, etc.) may be eligible if they have been in a faculty position for two years or less at the time of application.

The Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS) program is the result of the reformulation of the Career Awards in the Biomedical Sciences (CABS), which was instituted by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) in 1995 and ran through the 2006 award year.

In response to the NIH’s K99/R00 Pathway to Independence program, which was modeled after the CABS award, BWF has shifted the focus of the CABS program to address the on-going 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.

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 under-recovery or fund fee accessed on the fellowship.

Anyone wishing to submit a nomination for this award should send:  a brief proposal [1-2pages], PI CV and a preliminary budget to Debra Martin, VPR Programs Manager, debra at mit.edu by Friday, July 30, 2010.

Because of summer vacation schedules the internal competition due date is early to provide enough time for the Selection Committee to choose the finalists.

Final proposals are due to OSP by September 24, [5 business days before foundation due date].


Candidates Eligibility:

*The ideal candidate will be two years away from becoming an independent investigator, have at least two years or more of postdoctoral research experience, and have a significant publication record.
*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.
*Candidates must be a clinical fellow, resident,  or a postdoctoral researcher and have at least two years of postdoctoral research experience at the time of application.
*Candidates who hold a junior faculty appointment (Lecturer, Instructor, Assistant Professor-non tenure track, etc.) may be eligible if they have been in a faculty position for two years or less at the time of application.
*Candidates must not be more than 120 months past their most recent doctorate degree.  No exceptions will be made.
*Candidates with a clinical degree not awarded in the U.S. or Canada must be fully licensed to practice in the U.S. or Canada.
*Candidates must be committed to a full-time career in research as an independent investigator at a North American degree-granting institution.
*Candidates must be nominated by accredited, degree-granting institutions in the U.S. or Canada.
*Candidates must be citizens or permanent residents of the U.S. or Canada at the time of application.  Persons who have applied for permanent resident status but have not received their government documentation by the time of application are not eligible.
*Permanent residents of the U.S. must provide a copy of their Permanent Resident Card with the application.
*Permanent residents of Canada must provide a copy of their Landed Immigrant Status form with the application.
*Candidates who hold an NIH K99/R00 or R01 are NOT eligible to apply.

Institutional Nominations

U.S. or Canadian institutions--including affiliated medical schools, graduate schools, and all related hospitals and research institutes--may nominate up to five candidates.
BWF encourages institutions to nominate women and underrepresented minorities.  If a woman or underrepresented minority is nominated within the initial five candidates, a sixth candidate may be nominated provided that candidate is a woman or underrepresented minority (i.e. African American, Hispanic, or Native American).
NIH may nominate candidates who intend to continue their postdoctoral/fellowship training at the NIH, but such awardees must move to a degree-granting institution to assume a faculty position. The NIH will support these awardees during the postdoctoral/fellowship years, and BWF will support them for the first three years of their faculty appointment. Their total award will be $510,000. Postdoctoral fellows at the NIH should contact its Office of Intramural Research for information about its nomination procedures.
During the postdoctoral and faculty periods,


Questions regarding candidate or institutional eligibility should be directed in advance to BWF by contacting Debra Holmes at dholmes at bwfund.org or (919) 991-5134.

The Postdoctoral/Fellowship Portion of the Award

Career Awards for Medical Scientists provide the following levels of support during the postdoctoral/fellowship portion of the award:


Year 1:
  Salary and Research: $85,500
   Administrative Fee: $9,500
   Annual Total:$ 95,000

Year 2:
    Salary and Research: $85,500
   Administrative Fee:  $9,500
   Annual Total: $95,000

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.

The Faculty Portion of the Award

The award provides the following levels of support during the faculty portion of the award:

Year 3:
Salary and Research:  $153,000
 Administrative Fee: $17,000
 Annual Total: $170,000

 Year 4:
Salary and Research:  $153,000
 Administrative Fee: $17,000
Annual Total:  $170,000

 Year 5:
 Salary and Research:  $153,000
 Administrative Fee: $17,000
Annual Total:  $170,000


Will be $700,000 minus the portion used (if any) during the postdoctoral years.
Allows the awardee maximum salary support of $150,000 per year.  The balance is to be used for research expenses.
Normally will be three years plus the unused postdoctoral/fellowship portion of the award.
Allows awardees demonstrating adequate progress to be granted no-cost extensions through tenure.



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Debra L. Martin, Programs Manager
MIT
Vice President for Research Office, Room 11-268
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA  02139
617-258-0310, 617-252-1003 (fax)
debra at mit.edu
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