Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation
2009 Faculty Scholar Program
 |
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
This webpage contains information for the 2009 internal selection process only (for reference). The 2010 program has not been announced.
Website
The Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation does not have a
website for your reference.
This webpage contains the complete announcement for these gift awards. If you have any questions, please send an email to Jeanne Heschele or at jheschele@stanford.edu or call (650) 245-2351.
Internal submission deadline:
Monday, Jan. 12, 2009 by 4 p.m.
(see internal submission guidelines below)
Number of scholars
2 (see internal
submission process below)
4 finalists will be selected to give presentations to the Baxter Foundation Board of Directors in late March or early April 2009. Ultimately two individuals will be selected as Faculty Scholars.
Amount of gift funding
Amount of the unrestricted gift is $75,000-$100,000 per awardee (includes 8% infrastructure charge; gift amount dependent on foundation's earnings)
Purpose
The purpose of the Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation Faculty Scholar Program is to help prepare and support new investigators at the Assistant Professor level as they begin their careers. This early stage of career development is a critical period for a new researcher. During this period, the new scientist requires some form of support to develop preliminary data and build his or her research program to the point where he or she can compete effectively for federal or other external funding.
- Applicants must be at the assistant professor with UTL, MCL or NTLR faculty appointments. (Note: individuals in Instructor, clinical assistant professor, clinician educator and clinical instructor positions are not eligible.)
- The purpose of the Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation Faculty Scholar Program is to help prepare and support new investigators at the Assistant Professor level as they begin their careers.
- As of Jan. 12, 2009, an acting assistant professor's paperwork (the "long form") must be submitted (i.e., the appointment is therefore in process with the Dean's Office Academic affairs department) with the understanding that funding could not be accepted until the appointment is finalized AND: Assist. professors--you must also be physically here at Stanford by early January 2009 in order to be eligible for this round.)
- Applicants must have an M.D., M.D./Ph.D., Ph.D. or equivalent degree from an accredited institution.
- Applicants must be involved in basic or clinical research which has the potential for translation.
- For the purposes of this program, translational clinical research is defined as: 1) individuals whose research is conducted with human subjects or material of human origin; 2) individuals involved in animal studies that are close to taking new therapies to humans; 3) individuals involved in later stage development of devices for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes
- The foundation has expressed a preference for proposals that lead to development of new therapies, diagnostic tools, and disease prevention.
- Important note: Our experience with the Baxter Foundation suggests that they favor disease-related basic or clinical research that has the potential to secure federal or other funding once enough data is collected. They tend to favor diseases that impact significant numbers of people or that can serve as models for more than one malady. They care less about immediate translation than possible impact. They wish to understand in lay terms the problem(s) being addressed, the approach(es) taken and what the researcher sees as the next steps once the work is completed. They are open to highly technical work if it is first described in terminology they can understand.
- Other funding: Question: I have an R01, am I eligible? Per OMD: "All things being equal, a person who already has secured NIH funding would be viewed less favorably by the Baxter Foundation since they want their funding to help new investigators get their research off the ground in order to be competitive for NIH and other external funding."
Internal Submission Guidelines
By Monday, Jan.. 12, 2009, 4 p.m., please deliver one original and 8 sets of copies (Please clip, but do not staple the original. Each of the 8 sets of copies should include the nomination letter, research proposal and biosketches-then staple each set) (keep in mind one set goes to each committee member) to:
Jeanne Heschele, Research Management Group.
Jeanne will be at RMG's former location at 1215 Welch Road, Modular B, Room 20 to accept proposals between 2pm and 4 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 12, 2009.
Please send an email notifying Jeanne at jheschele@stanford.edu regarding your plans to submit a proposal. She can also be reached on her cell phone at 650-245-2351.(No budgets or SU-42 forms are required for this gift funding opportunity.)
1) Nomination letter printed on your department letterhead addressed to Dr. Peter Sarnow and the School of Medicine Awards Committee signed by your division chief and department chair.
2) One page Lay abstract (a critical component of the application)
3) 4 page Research Proposal (illustrations & references not included in page total ) Font size at least 11 with half-inch margins.
4) NIH-format biosketch (with Other funding--current and pending, sponsor, amount of funding, term as well as start up funds.)
Selection Procedure
Your nomination packet will be distributed to the faculty members on the School of Medicine Awards Committee. The 4 finalists selected by the Awards Committee will be expected to provide a presentation to the Baxter Foundation Board sometime in April or May 2009. (The Office of Medical Development staff will work closely with the finalists to help them prepare for their presentations to the Baxter Foundation Board of Directors.)
The board will select two Faculty Scholars. It is anticipated that the Awardees are expected to provide both a written and oral report at the end of the first year.
.
