The McCabe Fund Advisory Committee is calling for applications from junior faculty in the Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM) and the School of Veterinary Medicine for the annual Thomas B. and Jeannette E. Laws McCabe Fund Fellow and Pilot awards. The McCabe awards were established in 1969 by a gift from Thomas B. McCabe and Jeannette E. Laws McCabe to the Perelman School of Medicine. The gift supports junior faculty (assistant professors) who initiate fresh and innovative biomedical, clinical, and surgical research projects. This opportunity is open to clinical (CE and AC) track faculty. Tenure and research track faculty are not eligible to apply.

Eligible faculty are those who have received either limited or no external research funding while in their first through third years on the faculty at the PSOM or the School of Veterinary Medicine at Penn. Junior faculty in these schools should contact their department chair for information and application forms. The guidelines and instructions to determine eligibility are also available on the PSOM website: https://www.med.upenn.edu/evdresearch/mccabe-fund.html

The deadline for submission is Friday, May 10, 2024. The McCabe Fund Advisory Committee will select the winners at its annual meeting in June.

Last year there were five fellow award winners of $50,000 each: Ryan Carey, Otorhinolaryngology; Daniel Hashimoto, Surgery; Christina Jackson, Neurosurgery; Ioannis Verginadis, Radiation Oncology; and Mahesh Vidula, Medicine.

There were seventeen Pilot Award winners who received $29,326 each: Jason Ackrivo, Medicine; Lorraine Boakye, Orthopaedic Surgery; Quy Cao, Biostatistics & Epidemiology; Jennifer Douglas, Otorhinolaryngology; Alexander Fairman, Surgery; Victoria Gershuni, Surgery; Arun Goel, Radiation Oncology; Thea Golden, Obstetrics & Gynecology; Wenbo Gu, Radiation Oncology; Tiffany Peng Hwa, Otorhinolaryngology; Tiffanie Jones, Medicine/Epidemiology; Austin Kilaru, Emergency Medicine; Michael LaRiviere, Radiation Oncology; Galen Leung, Medicine; Jennifer McCoy, Obstetrics & Gynecology; Todd Miano, Biostatistics & Epidemiology; Andrew Sobel, Orthopaedic Surgery; and Srijan Tandukar, Medicine.