Call for Applications: Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research Fellowships

[Dana Bresee Keeth]

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> From the Office of Foundation Relations (MIT)
>
> Below you will find information on a call for applications from the 
> Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research.
>
> Please forward to anyone who might be interested.
>
> *NOTE:**The Office of Foundation Relations is pleased to provide 
> assistance to anyone applying for a grant from this program.**/Please 
> also let us know if you apply, whether or not we assist you.  For more 
> information, including a list of recently issued RFPs, please visit 
> our website (/**http://foundations.mit.edu/for-faculty/rfp-information/).*
>
> */NOTE: All proposals must be routed through the Office of Sponsored 
> Programs prior to submission./*
>
> /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/
>
> *Deadline: February 3, 2014 (for application); February 15 (Letter of 
> Reference, Sponsor Letter, Certifications Page)*
> *
> *
> */NOTE: Award is a fellowship--it will not incur underrecovery/*
>
> The conditions under which these awards are made are as 
> follows: Applicants in general should not have more than ONE YEAR of 
> postdoctoral experience and MD'S should not have received their degree 
> more than THREE YEARS from the date the application is due February 1, 
> 2014.  You must hold either the M.D. degree or the Ph.D. degree in the 
> field in which you propose to study or furnish evidence of equivalent 
> training and experience.
>
> The appointment will be for three years. The Fund recognizes that in 
> some instances there may be valid reasons for changing both laboratory 
> and sponsor. During the course of your fellowship.  Such changes 
> require the permission of the Director with the advice of the Board of 
> Scientific Advisers. Applicants who, at the time of initiation of the 
> fellowship, will have completed one year in a position as postdoctoral 
> fellow or equivalent will usually be awarded a maximum of two years of 
> fellowship support from this foundation. Only under exceptional 
> circumstances will an award be made to an individual who will have had 
> two years or more of postdoctoral research experience.
>
> Applicants may be citizens of any country but for foreign nationals 
> awards will be made only for study in the United States. American 
> citizens may hold a fellowship either in the United States or in a 
> foreign country.
>
> An applicant in addition to submitting evidence as to pre 
> and postdoctoral training must supply (a) the names and addresses of 
> three individuals personally acquainted both with the applicant and 
> with the applicant’s professional work, one of whom is to be the 
> principal predoctoral advisor, (b) letter from the Sponsor c) a 
> suitably documented outline of the research problem proposed, and (d) 
> the written consent of the Chair of the Department and a responsible 
> fiscal officer of the host institution indicating their willingness to 
> accept and provide necessary facilities for the Fellow(certification 
> form). (Please note that in the event of multiple applications, it is 
> the policy of the Fund to initiate no more than one fellowship under a 
> particular sponsor in any fiscal year)
>
> Stipend and expense allowance
> The basic stipend at present is $50,000 the first year, $50,000 the 
> second year, and $50,000 the third year, with an additional $1000 for 
> each dependent child. There is no dependency allowance for a 
> spouse. An allowance of $1,500 a year toward the cost of the research 
> usually will be made available to the laboratory sponsoring the 
> fellow. The research allowance is not to be used for travel.  The 
> Fellow will have access to $1,800 for travel to science meetings, 
> please look at the travel polilcy.  In addition to the travel 
> allowance the Fund provides a travel award for the Fellow and their 
> family to travel to the sponsoring laboratory. Return travel for 
> Fellows will be considered depending upon the Fellow’s plans and 
> situation at the time.
>
> Visit the**Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical 
> Research website for complete program information and application 
> procedures: http://www.jccfund.org/fellowship-information.
> ______________________________
> Nicholas Marmor
> Development Associate
> Office of Foundation Relations
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> 600 Memorial Drive
> Cambridge, MA 02139
> nmarmor at mit.edu <mailto:nmarmor at mit.edu>
> 617.324.7163
>

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