The Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholars program will support individual scientists of exceptional creativity who have an MD or PhD degree (or both) and who have completed a minimum of three years of a post-doctoral fellowship.
Limited Submissions Internal Call for Proposals: The Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholar Awards
ORD Internal Deadline: 5:00pm, Friday, October 23, 2020
Warren Alpert Foundation Deadline: Sunday, November 1, 2020
Internal Review Date (if applicable): Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Program Description: The Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholars program will support individual scientists of exceptional creativity who have an MD or PhD degree (or both) and who have completed a minimum of three years of a post-doctoral fellowship by July 1, 2021 in the field of neurosciences and hold a post-doctoral research position at a United States medical school, research institute or academic hospital. These awards are given as a transitional post-doctoral award for recipients to enable their advance to a full-time faculty member at the Assistant Professor level or higher. Scholars will be chosen on the basis of the success in their prior post-doctoral work as well as in the importance and creativity of their continued work. The Foundation will select recipients for awards using an objective and nondiscriminatory selection process based upon criteria including a review of each applicant’s scholastic achievements, academic records, scientific proposal and submitted letters of recommendation.
Funding Amount: The medical school, research institute or academic hospital appointing the scholar will be awarded $200,000 annually for two years to cover their salary, lab costs, and related expenses. Under certain circumstances, the awardee may transfer funding in year 2 to support their faculty position. Indirect cost of up to 15% of direct costs, may be included in the $200,000. All applicants are required to provide 75% effort.
Eligibility: The Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholars program will support individual scientists of exceptional creativity who have an MD or PhD degree (or both) and who have completed a minimum of three years of a post-doctoral fellowship by July 1, 2021 in the field of neurosciences and hold a post-doctoral research position at a United States medical school, research institute or academic hospital.
Limit on Number of Proposals per Organization: One.
To Apply: Submit the following to the Office of Research Development, Limited_Submissions@unc.edu by 5:00pm, Friday, October 23, 2020.
With this application you must include the following and should be no more than 5 single spaced pages, ½ inch margins and 11pt or greater font. The 5 pages does not include the bibliography, cv, budget and 3 letters of recommendation.
- Title
- Summary of the research
- Introduction, importance of the project, methods and likely presentation results.
- One-half page on the background of the applicant and the special characteristics that he/she has for implementing the project and career plan.
- Bibliography
- A CV in NIH format
- A budget in G.300 R&R Format (aka: SF 424 R&R Budget). Please be certain to include budget justification
- Three letters of recommendation are preferred. If letters are not prepared prior to the internal deadline, please provide the names of three referees.
- Names of three internal (to UNC) experts who could speak knowledgeably about your research as part of an internal review panel, in the event of an internal review. Due to the prompt turn-around, an internal review will be held on Tuesday, October 27, 2020 if applicable. Please verify the availability of each potential reviewer.
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- Please do not include the names of faculty named on the project, chairs, deans, directors, direct reports or others who have a conflict of interest.
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- Please notify all potential internal reviewers and check their availability before submitting the application packet to ORD.
Warren Alpert Foundation Solicitation: https://www.warrenalpertfoundation.org/awards/