CFAR Pilot Grant Program: March 30 |
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Penn Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) invites applications in HIV/AIDS clinical care, pathogenesis, virology, immunology, structural biology, vaccine development, epidemiology or prevention research. Awards are up to $40,000 for each grant, for a one-year period.
All HIV/AIDS topics are welcome, especially those that address our priority Scientific Working Group areas: HIV & Viral Hepatitis co-infection (with broad focus spanning basic, clinical, behavioral); HIV & Substance Use; Strategies targeting HIV Eradication, HIV Reservoirs and Residual Inflammation.
Award Types:
Mentored Research Scholar awards: Young Investigators (Non-Faculty members)
• Instructor and Research Associate level
• One-page mentorship plan with a mentor at assistant professor level or above is required. Mentorship Plan Guidelines: http://www.med.upenn.edu/cfar/developmental_mentorprogram.shtml
General Pilot Awards: Faculty members
• Post-grad degree with an appointment equivalent to a staff scientist or assistant professor (or above) at the University of Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia or The Wistar Institute.
• For junior faculty applicants, a one-page mentorship plan with a senior faculty member is strongly encouraged; for non-HIV/AIDS investigators of any level, a partnership plan with an established HIV/AIDS investigator is strongly encouraged.
Eligibility:
• Young investigators (Instructor/Research Associate) who have not received independent funding in HIV/AIDS and are poised to begin an independent project (Mentored Research Scholar award)
• New investigators who never have held extramural R01-level support from the NIH
• Investigators who have not previously been funded for work in HIV/AIDS
• Investigators who worked in HIV/AIDS to study an area that is a significant departure from their current work
• New interdisciplinary collaborations involving investigators from different disciplines who have not previously worked together
Application Deadline: Monday, March 30
Cover page instructions at http://www.med.upenn.edu/cfar/documents/Instructs_CoverpgFY2016.pdf
Note: Application should address how this pilot will lead to future independent funding.
Pre-Submission Pilot Workshop: on Friday, January 30, 1-3 p.m.; 253 Biomedical Research Building, 421 Curie Blvd.; for (a) junior investigators to help craft a stronger research proposal and (b) all investigators to gain more info about research services provided through CFAR Resource Cores. For further info on the workshop or mentoring plans, contact Evelyn Olivieri.
International Applications: see specific requirements online.
For further info, please contact:
Pablo Tebas, (director, CFAR Developmental Core) pablo.tebas@uphs.upenn.edu
Luis J. Montaner, (co-director, CFAR Developmental Core) montaner@wistar.org
Evelyn Olivieri, oliviere@mail.med.upenn.edu
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