Doris Duke Foundatioon Clinical Scientist Development Award

The Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award provides grants to junior physician-scientists to facilitate their transition to independent clinical research careers. The foundation plans to award up to 14 three-year grants in 2010 of $125,000 per year in direct costs and $10,000 per year in indirect costs to junior faculty level physician-scientists conducting clinical research in any disease area.

Applicants must:

• Be a physician-scientist conducting clinical research in any disease area;
• Have received an M.D. or a foreign equivalent from an accredited institution;
• Be working in a U.S. degree-granting institution, but do not have to be a U.S. citizen;
• Have a full-time faculty level position not higher than the Assistant Professor level; and
• Have been appointed to their first full-time faculty level position between January 1, 2005 and January 1, 2010. (All full-time post-fellowship Instructor level positions will be considered full-time faculty level appointments.) 

Send nominations to Ira Bernstein, Senior Associate Dean for Research at Ira.Bernstein@uvm.edu