Fwd: Call for Applications: The Burroughs Wellcome Fund's Underrepresented Minority Postdoctoral Enrichment Program

[Dana Bresee Keeth]

Forwarded Message:

 From the Office of Foundation Relations [MIT]

Below you will find information on a call for applications for the 
Burroughs Wellcome Fund's Underrepresented Minority Postdoctoral 
Enrichment Program.

Please forward to anyone who might be interested.

/*NOTE:**The Office of Foundation Relations would be pleased to provide 
assistance to anyone applying for a grant from this program.**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 
(*/*http://foundations.mit.edu/ <http://web.mit.edu/ofr/>).*

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*Deadline: January 15, 2013 by 4:00 p.m., EST*
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*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. *
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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.

  * 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.)
  * Year two: $20,000 (same allocation as year one)
  * Year three:  $10,000 will be granted for enrichment activities for
    the postdoctoral fellow to advance his/her research.


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.

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.
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Visit the Burroughs Wellcome Fund's website for complete program 
information and application procedures: 
http://dev.bwfund.org/pages/667/Underrepresented-Minority-Postdoctoral-Enrichment/. 



Angela Frey
Development Associate
Office of Foundation Relations
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

600 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone:  617.253.3829
Fax:  617.258.8800
E-mail: a <mailto:afrey at mit.edu>frey at mit.edu <mailto:afrey at mit.edu>
http://foundations.mit.edu <http://foundations.mit.edu/>
@MITFoundations



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