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 generous 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 who initiate fresh and innovative biomedical, clinical, and surgical research projects. 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.

The deadline for submission is Monday, May 15. The McCabe Fund Advisory Committee will select the winners at its annual meeting in June.  

McCabe Fund Awards for 2017

Last year there were three winners of Fellow Awards of $40,000 each: 

Rumela Chakrabarti, biomedical sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine;

Sandra Maday, neuroscience, PSOM

Panteleimon Rompolas, dermatology, PSOM

There were 20 Pilot Award winners, all from PSOM, who received $20,428 each: 

Zarina S. Ali, neurosurgery

Alexander F. Arriaga, anesthesiology & critical care

Josh R. Baxter, orthopaedic surgery

Abigail T. Berman, radiation oncology

Sandhitsu R. Das, neurology

Helge D. Hartung, pediatrics 

Michael W. Hast, orthopaedic surgery

Daniel S. Herman, pathology & laboratory medicine

Victoria E. Johnson, neurosurgery

Vivek Narayan, medicine 

Kavindra Nath, radiology 

Desmond J. Oathes, psychiatry 

Mark O’Hara, medicine

Ali Kemal Ozturk, neurosurgery

Jeffrey D. Roizen, pediatrics 

Kira L. Ryskina, medicine 

Haochang Shou, biostatistics & epidemiology 

Raymond Soccio, medicine

Samuel Swisher-McClure, radiation oncology

Eric Williamson, neurology