RFPs and Funding Opportunities

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs collaborate to foster the development of physicians who will lead the transformation of Americans’ health and health care through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars program. These future leaders will conduct innovative research and work with communities, organizations, practitioners, and policymakers to address issues essential to the health and well-being of all Americans.

 The program provides participants with leadership training; mentoring; protected research time; local, regional, and national networking; health services and community-based research training; and financial support for research projects and professional travel.

 To be eligible, physicians must be committed to a career in academic medicine, public health, health policy, or another career congruent with the program’s purposes and priorities of developing physician leaders and skilled researchers. Applicants must intend to complete the clinical requirements of their residency training by the date of entry into the program (except for surgeons), and be citizens or permanent residents of the United States or its territories. Both M.D.s and D.O.s are eligible to apply. The program encourages applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds and clinical disciplines.

 Up to twenty scholars will be selected for appointments beginning July 1, 2012. In the first year the scholar stipend will be $62,000 and is expected to increase the second year. In some cases, VA stipends may be higher. Additional financial support is provided for research projects and professional travel.

 For complete program information, visit the RWJF Web site here:

http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=21301

The Mary Kay Foundation, a funding source for cancer research, is accepting applications for innovative grants for translational research in ovarian, uterine, breast, or cervical cancer.

The grant program is open to researchers at accredited medical schools and schools of public health in the United States. Applications must be submitted by one Principal Investigator selected by the institution. Only one grant application will be accepted from each medical school or school of public health.

The program will provide ten to fifteen grants of up to $100,000 each (combined direct and indirect costs) for a period of two years.

Deadline: February 4, 2011

Visit the Mary Kay Foundation Web site for complete program guidelines and application procedures as well as information on previously funded research here:

http://www.mkacf.org/Pages/CancerGrantProgram.aspx

With funding from the National Science Foundation, the American Educational Research Association has announced the continuation of the AERA Grants Program, which provides small grants and training for researchers who conduct studies of education policy and practice using quantitative methods, including the analysis of data from the large-scale data sets sponsored by National Center for Education Statistics and NSF.

 Support is available in four categories:

 Research Grants are available for faculty at institutions of higher education, postdoctoral researchers, and other doctoral-level scholars. Applications are encouraged from a variety of disciplines, including but not limited to education, sociology, economics, psychology, demography, statistics, and psychometrics. Applicants may be U.S. citizens, U.S. permanent residents, or non-U.S. citizens and must be working at a U.S. institution. Approximately fifteen grants of up to $20,000 for one-year projects, or up to $35,000 for two-year projects will be awarded. (Deadline: January 10, 2011.)

 Dissertation Grants are available for advanced doctoral students and are intended to support the student while writing the doctoral dissertation. AERA invites education-related dissertation proposals using NCES, NSF, and other federal data bases. Applications are encouraged from a variety of disciplines, including but not limited to education, sociology, economics, psychology, demography, statistics, and psychometrics. Applicants may be U.S. citizens, U.S. permanent residents, or non-U.S. citizens, and must be working at a U.S. institution. Approximately fifteen grants of up to $20,000 each for one-year projects will be awarded. (Deadline: January 10, 2011.)

 The AERA Institute on Statistical Analysis for Education Policy: Transitions from High School to College is designed to build the capacity of the U.S. education researcher community to use large-scale national and international data sets for basic, policy, and applied research. Advanced graduate students and recent doctorates are especially encouraged to apply. A select group of scholars will be chosen to participate in the institute in Washington, D.C., May 24-26, 2011. Participants will receive support covering the institute’s fees, transportation, housing, and meals. (Deadline: January 20, 2011.)

 The AERA Faculty Institute for the Teaching of Statistics with Large-Scale Date Sets is designed to help develop a critical mass of U.S. education researchers using large-scale federal data sets. This training is geared for U.S. university faculty members who teach basic introductory graduate-level statistics or methodology courses and who seek to integrate large-scale federal education data sets into the teaching of these courses. Applicants may be faculty members in graduate schools or departments of education, or from other disciplines with an interest in education research. A select group of scholars will be chosen to participate in the institute at Stanford University, June 15-17, 2011. Participants will receive support covering the institute’s fees, transportation, housing, and meals. (Deadline: January 20, 2011.)

Underrepresented minority researchers are strongly encouraged to apply for these programs.

Visit the AERA Web site for complete program information and application requirements here:

 http://www.aera.net/grantsprogram/index.html

Visit the AERA Web site for complete program information and application requirements.

Society in Science: The Branco Weiss Fellowship provides young researchers with a generous personal grant designed to provide them with the freedom to work on whatever topic they choose for a maximum duration of five years. The program is coordinated by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich but the financing can be used at any institution worldwide.

 The fellowship is geared primarily to natural scientists and engineers at an early stage of their post-doctoral studies; however, representatives of other disciplines may also apply if they are able to present an appropriate project. Applicants whose fields of interest are not represented by current or former Branco Weiss fellowships are strongly encouraged to apply and will be looked upon favorably.

 Applicants must provide evidence of outstanding scientific achievement to qualify. Fellows are expected to break across boundaries between different disciplines, to establish stimulating links, and to develop new approaches. Ideally, fellows pursue an unconventional project involving societal aspects.

 In the evaluation of candidates, emphasis will be given to personality more than the proposed study. However, awardees will be expected to design a courageous and scientifically rigorous research project that benefits from the unique freedom offered by the Branco Weiss Fellowship. The proposed inquiry must meet high standards of scientific quality as well as have a clear and distinct social component.

 The five-year fellowship will be awarded in the form of an initial two-year (Pioneer Phase) and a subsequent three-year (Exploitation Phase) installment. At the end of the second year, a review will be conducted to evaluate the originality of the project and the productivity of the postdoctoral fellow. Fellows have the opportunity to work at an academic institution of their choice anywhere in the world. The fellows meet as a group at least once a year to present and discuss their research projects with a selected scientific and public audience.

 Up to five fellowships are awarded every year.

For complete program information, visit the Society in Science Web site here:

 http://www.society-in-science.org/?CFID=10560470&CFTOKEN=18475161

The Kessler Foundation, a public charity dedicated to improving the lives of people with physical and cognitive disabilities caused by stroke, multiple sclerosis, injuries to the brain and spinal cord, and other chronic conditions, is seeking nominations for the Joel A. DeLisa, M.D. Award for Excellence in Research and Education in the Field of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Created in honor of the retired founding director of the Kessler Foundation Research Center, the newly established annual award program will recognize a leader and role model in the field of PM&R.

The award is intended to identify and reward a physician and/or scientist who has demonstrated a significant impact on the field of PM&R, particularly as it relates to the translation of research and education to patient care. Award applicants must be nominated by a second party who can attest to the individual’s qualifications. Applicants at all levels of their career are eligible for nomination. Current Kessler Foundation employees are not eligible. To be considered for the award, a nominee must demonstrate significant accomplishments in the following six domains: publications, funding, program development, education/training, service, and leadership.

One annual award will be presented in the amount of $50,000. This year’s award will be presented at the Kessler Foundation Awards Gala on May 12, 2011, in New York City. The award recipient must be present on that day to receive the award as well as to deliver a presentation at the Kessler Foundation’s Thought Leadership Conference. Visit the Kessler Foundation Web site for complete award program information and nomination requirements here:

https://kesslerfoundation.org/research/articles?id=99

The Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, an independent charitable organization whose mission is to reduce health disparities and improve health outcomes around the world for patients disproportionately affected by serious disease, has announced the launch of Together on Diabetes: Communities Uniting to Meet America’s Diabetes Challenge, a five-year, $100 million initiative designed to help patients living with type 2 diabetes better manage their disease. Working with community-based, regional, and national partners, the Together on Diabetes program will support efforts to develop and expand effective patient self-management programs and broadly engage affected communities in the fight against type 2 diabetes. In addition, the initiative’s “innovation fund” will help support new ideas for controlling type 2 diabetes.

The program will make grants and forge partnerships through two processes: ongoing, opportunistic grantmaking and themed Requests for Proposals, which will be issued each November during National Diabetes Month.

The program’s first RFP focuses on African American women, one of the highest risk groups for type 2 diabetes based on prevalence and disease burden. The purpose of the RFP is to encourage, identify, and promote new evidence-based approaches to empowering African American women to control their diabetes while taking into account the opportunity they have to influence the health of their families and communities as well.

 Five two-year grants of up to $300,000 will be awarded. Grant funds will support a four-month planning phase and a twenty-month implementation and evaluation phase for collaborative, community-based projects that serve a minimum of one hundred and fifty African American women living with type 2 diabetes.

 Established nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations and academic institutions working at the community level are eligible to apply for support under this RFP. Partnerships are encouraged.

 Visit the Together on Diabetes Web site for further program information and the complete RFP here:

 http://www.bms.com/togetherondiabetes/apply-for-grants/Pages/default.aspx

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation works to help high-achieving, low-income studentsreach their full potential through education. The foundation has created a new dissertation fellowship program to advance its understanding of the factors and contexts that help low-income students overcome personal adversity and challenging socioeconomic circumstances to excel academically in order to design programs and interventions that help more low-income students identified as high-achieving in their primary and secondary school years to sustain their achievement levels through college and beyond.

 While the dissertation topic must concern education and human potential, graduate study may be in a diverse range of academic disciplines. Candidates must be working toward a doctoral degree at a graduate school in the United States, but need not be U.S. citizens.

 The fellowship is a one-time award of $25,000, which may be used for a period of not less than nine months and up to eighteen months. The foundation will award two fellowships in 2011 and has plans to offer up to five annually in the coming years.

 The Jack Kent Cooke Dissertation Fellowship Award program guidelines and application requirements are available at the Cooke Foundation Web site here:

http://www.jkcf.org/scholarships/graduate-scholarships/jack-kent-cooke-dissertation-fellowship-award/

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Deadline: February 1, 2011

The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation invites nominations for the Mary Woodard Lasker Public Service Award in support of medical research and the health sciences.

 The award honors exceptional individuals and organizations whose public service has profoundly enlarged the possibilities for medical research and the health sciences and their impact on public health. The award will be conferred on a winner selected from among policy makers, journalists, philanthropists, advocates, scientists, and public health professionals. The award committee welcomes nominations in global health, domestic health, or both.

 Awards may be given: 1) to an individual or organization that has significantly advanced public understanding of subjects in medical research, medicine, and health through bold investigation, creative coverage and reporting, or extraordinary educational efforts; 2) to an individual or organization, including elected or appointed officials at the state, national, or international levels, that has played a major role in the support of policy, legislative, or other initiatives aimed at advancing progress in the medical sciences or health worldwide; 3) to an individual or institution (public, private, corporate) that has provided critical and generous financial support for new, incisive initiatives that enhance medical and health research and their impact; or 4) to an individual who has developed a national or international profile as an outstanding spokesperson in support of medical research or the health sciences and whose advocacy and leadership have brought about significant, lasting benefits for research, medicine, or health.

 Visit the Lasker Foundation Web site for complete program information and nomination procedures here:

http://www.laskerfoundation.org/nominate.htm

The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation is accepting nominations for the 2011 Lasker Medical Research Awards.

 Since 1945, the Lasker Awards have recognized the contributions of scientists, physicians, and public servants who have made major advances in the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of disease.

 The awards will be offered in two categories in 2011: Basic Medical Research and Clinical Medical Research. The Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science, presented every other year, will next be given in 2012.

 The major purpose of the awards is to recognize and honor individuals who have made important contributions in basic or clinical research in diseases that are a significant cause of death and disability. The award winners may reside in any country of the world.

 The awards are intended to recognize contributions that have opened new fields of research, advancing novel concepts or their applications in a particular biomedical discipline. These advances may consist of a specific contribution or a long series of contributions that demonstrate the nominee’s significant leadership toward the development of research concepts or their clinical application.

 The Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award honors scientists who have made fundamental discoveries that open new areas of biomedical science.

 The Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award honors scientists whose contributions, directly or indirectly, have helped pioneer a path to major improvements in the clinical management or treatment of patients.

 More than one scientist (but no more than three) may be nominated together if they have worked as a team, or if they independently have made comparable contributions in their field.

 Each award consists of an honorarium, a citation, and an inscribed statuette of the Winged Victory of Samothrace, symbolizing victory over death and disease.

 Visit the Lasker Foundation Web site for complete program guidelines and nomination procedures here:

http://www.laskerfoundation.org/nominate.htm

The Avon Foundation for Women has released the m.powerment by mark 2010 RFP for the Healthy Relationship Peer Educator Program. The foundation has developed a comprehensive and need-based philanthropic strategy for this program that recognizes the importance of peer-to-peer education about healthy dating relationships among college-age people.

Twenty grants of up to $10,000 will be provided to colleges wishing to establish a network of Dating Peer Educators on their campuses. Funding may be used to cover the cost of a -trainer education program, printed materials and education sessions.

Dating peer educators should be trained to provide preventive education related to dating abuse and violence, sexual assault, harassment, stalking, and the promotion of healthy relationships; and should also be trained to provide local resources and referrals to local community-based DV experts. Student programs should emphasize awareness and prevention through education.

Applications should demonstrate the ability to initiate or expand on the work of the Dating Peer Educator Program and to garner additional support.

Applicants must be U.S.-based colleges or 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations.

Complete program information and the online application form are available at the Avon Foundation Web site here:

http://www.avonfoundation.org/funding-and-grants/domestic-violence-grant-guidelines.html