The McCabe Fund Advisory Committee calls for applications from junior faculty in the Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM) and the School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM) 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. and Jeannette E. Laws McCabe to the Perelman School of Medicine. The purpose of this gift is to support 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 PSOM or the SVM. 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 9, 2025. The McCabe Fund Advisory Committee will select the winners at its annual meeting in June.

Last year there were five winners of Fellow Awards of $50,000 each: Emily Baumrin (Dermatology), Joshua Catapano (Neurosurgery), Harper Hubbeling (Radiation Oncology), Roger Kim (Medicine), and Nathan Klingensmith (Surgery).

There were sixteen Pilot Award winners, who received $36,347 each: Humera Ahmed (Pediatrics), Maria Altieri (Surgery), Marissa Anto (Neurology), Saïd Azoury (Surgery), Ali Dhanaliwala (Radiology), Megan Kassick (Radiation Oncology), Cassandra Ligh (Surgery), Daniela Luethy (Large Animal Medicine, SVM), Lin Mei (Medicine), Ralph Nader (Medicine), Julianna Rodin (Otorhinolaryngology), Mersedeh Rohanizadegan (Medicine), Nicholas Seewald (Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics), Caroline Sobotyk (Parasitology, SVM), Alexandra Strauss (Medicine), and Junqian Zhang (Dermatology).