Child Health Research Institute at Stanford (CHRI)
CHRI Faculty Scholar Award
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Internal funding opportunity for Stanford assistant professors or early associate professors with University Tenure Line (UTL) and Medical Center Line (MCL) faculty appointments in clinical departments whose research involves child health or the training of child health researchers (see additional eligibility guidelines).
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Timeline:
Internal deadline: June 14, 2013 (see internal application guidelines below)
Award start date: Sept. 1, 2013
Amount of funding: $100,000 per year for 5 years
Eligibility:
CHRI Faculty Scholars must hold a doctoral degree: M.D., Ph.D., or M.D./Ph.D. degree or their equivalents and
- be a Stanford mid-to-late assistant professor or early associate (pre-tenure) professor with University Tenure Line (UTL) or Medical Center Line (MCL) faculty appointments in a clinical department whose research involves child health or the training of child health researchers
- be a member of CHRI
- if they are a physician/surgeon have their primary site of clinical/academic activity at the LPCH
- if they are not a practicing physician/surgeon, they must have a track record of focusing the majority of their research on child health
- carry out work in support of the strategic priorities of the LPCH and Stanford School of Medicine as they relate to innovation in child health and training of child health researchers
- an individual with an acting assistant or associate professor position in a clinical department may be eligible if his/her formal faculty appointment is finalized by the Provost Office by Sept. 1, 2013, the start date of the award
Purpose:
The CHRI Faculty Scholar Program will provide funds first for the scholar's remuneration and benefits and second to support research and other costs of the faculty member such that there shall be demonstrable, significant and meritorious scholarship/research activities related to innovation in child health.
Type of research
Research must be primarily related to child health. Child refers to the expectant mother, embryo, fetus, infant, child and adolescent. All areas of research are eligible: basic, translational, clinical research, epidemiology/statistics, informatics, health services, or health policy.
Internal Application Guidelines
By June 14, 2013, please submit one PDF file containing the following (in the order listed below) via email attachment to:
Bonnie Whalen
BWhalen@LPCH.org
Administrative Director CHRI
650-498-2629
1) Cover page
Title of this RFA: 2014 CHRI Faculty Scholar Award
Title of your project
PI: Name, title, department, address, phone and email address
2) Letter of Nomination printed on your department's letterhead and signed by your Clinical Department Chair. (This should be from the department where you have your primary School of Medicine academic appointment). The Chair’s letter will outline the nominee's:
-current time commitments to clinical, education, research and administration
-time commitment to clinical, education, research and administration should he/she be successful in their application to become a CHRI Faculty Scholar.
*If the Chair serves on the Faculty Scholar adjudication committee, the applicant will be nominated by their Division Chief.
3) Personal Statement (one page): Using Arial 10 font or larger. Describe how the award will both enhance their career development and the Strategic Plan and Strategic Goals of the LPCH and the School of Medicine as it relates to innovation in child health.
4) Research Proposal (maximum of 4 pages of text, not including references, and no more than 5 additional pages of attachments or appendices. Use Arial 10 font or larger and place the applicant's name on every page along with the page number.
The proposal should contain a concise description of the project aims, hypothesis, background, preliminary studies (if available), overall design and methods and potential pitfalls and a 5-year budget. For human-based studies there should also be a brief description of sample size and plan for statistical analyses of the results.
5) A Statement That:
--in publications arising from this support they will indicate, when possible, that they were a Child Health Research Institute at Stanford < > Faculty Scholar
-they will use the award title as a part of their formal signature block, e.g.:
NAME
< >
Endowed Faculty Scholar
Child Health Research Institute at Stanford
--they will comply with all reporting requirements both during and following the completion of this award
6) NIH Biosketch and Other Support Page
7) Updated CV
