Ellison Medical Foundation
New Scholars Program in Aging
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Limited Funding Opportunity for new investigators [assistant professors with UTL, MCL, & NTLR appointments] of outstanding promise in the basic biological sciences relevant to understanding aging processes and age-related diseases and disabilities (see eligibility criteria).
Internal selection process required. The School of Medicine will handle the university-wide internal selection process.
Number of applicants permitted: 2
(see internal
selection process guidelines)
(see internal submission guidelines below)
Ellison Medical Foundation website:
Purpose
The objective of The Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholars Program is to support new investigators of outstanding promise in the basic biological sciences relevant to understanding lifespan development processes and age-related diseases and disabilities. The award is intended to provide significant support to new investigators needed to permit them to become established in the field of aging. The New Scholars Program provides awards of up to $100,000 per year for a four-year period for successful candidates. The Ellison Medical Foundation was established and is supported by Lawrence J. Ellison to support biomedical research (including basic biology, basic biomedicine and epidemiology) on aging.
Amount of funding
Up to $100,000 per year for four years
Funding for years two, three and four is contingent upon submission of an acceptable progress report. Depending upon the number of nominations submitted and the qualifications of the nominees, up to 25 scholars will be selected.
Eligibility
- These awards are intended for investigators who are in the first three (3) years of their research career following their post-doctoral fellowship [an individual postdoctoral fellowship] experience. Time spent in clinical internships, post-doctoral training [as part of a training grant], residencies, or in work toward board certification does not count as part of the three-year limit. [Note: Years spent in positions you have held since your postdoctoral fellowship experience such as Research Associate, Senior Research Associate or Instructor, for example, count towards the overall three-year limit.]
- For the 2010 competition, as of March 1, 2010, nominees must hold regular full time appointments (tenure or non-tenure) on the faculty of the sponsoring institution and they must not have been in such an appointment, at the sponsoring institution or other institution(s), for more than three years as of July 15, 2010, i.e. the appointment having been made no earlier than July 15, 2007. (Stanford assistant professors with UTL, MCL and NTLR appointments)(Please keep in mind you not only need to have a faculty appointment here at Stanford by March 1, 2010, but you need to be, as of that date, within the first three years of your overall research career following your postdoctoral fellowship experience.)
- New investigators of outstanding promise in the basic biological sciences relevant to understanding lifespan development processes and age-related diseases and disabilities.
Other Funding Restrictions
Ellison Medical Foundation applicants may hold one similar award from a private source concurrently for up to one year.
The limitation is with regard to overlap of funding type, even in the absence of scientific overlap. Conflicting career development or new faculty awards include, but are not limited to: American Cancer Society - Research Scholar; American Diabetes Association - Career Development Award or Junior Faculty Award; American Federation for Aging Research - AFAR Research Grant; Arnold & Mary Beckman Foundation - Young Investigator Award; Brookdale Foundation - Brookdale Fellowship; Burroughs Wellcome Fund - Career Awards Medical Scientist; Dana Foundation - Brain & Immuno-Imaging (Conventional or Cellular) Award; Hartford Foundation/Amer. Geriatric Society - Jahnigen Career Development Scholar, Geriatric Health Outcome Scholar, or T.F. Williams Research Scholar; Hillblom Foundation - Hillblom Start-up Grant; Partnership for Cures/Goldman/Rockefeller Fund - Culpeper Medical Science Scholar; Pew Charitable Trust - PEW Scholar Award; Rosalind & Arthur Gilbert Foundation/AFAR - New Investigators Award in Alzheimer's disease; Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research - Kimmel Scholar Award; and Whitehall Foundation - Grants-in-Aid. New Scholar Awards will only be made for the full four-year term. If a conflicting award is accepted prior to the New Scholar Award, this must be resolved by either declining The Ellison Medical Foundation award or arranging to terminate the conflicting award within one year.
Specific Areas of Interest,
but not limited to:
Structural biology
Molecular genetics
Studies with model systems ranging from lower eukaryotes to humans
Inquiries testing the relevance of simpler models to human aging
Genetic epidemiology of aging;
candidate longevity genes
Aging in the immune system
Host defense molecules in aging systems
Mechanisms of free radical induced cell aging
Mechanisms of aging in various differentiated cell populations
Gene/environment and gene/gene interactions
Integrative physiology
New approaches to age-modulated disease mechanisms: Alzheimer's disease and others.
EVALUATION:
Nominees for the New Scholars Award are expected to have great promise as potential leaders of biomedical science with relevance to aging.
Each nominee's potential for scientific innovation, leadership, and relevance to aging will be evaluated by the Aging Review Group and the Scientific Advisory Board, based upon the nominee's research proposal, scientific contributions to date, and the reference statements provided by those who know the nominee and his/her work well.
The quality and relevance of the nominee's publications and the importance to aging of the nominee's proposed research will be significant factors in the evaluation process.
By Tues., Dec. 1, 2009, 5 p.m., please submit the following in the order listed below in one PDF file via email attachment to Jeanne Heschele at jheschele@stanford.edu.
PLEASE NOTE: SU-42 forms, PI waivers, budgets are not required for the internal selection process. You do not need to work with your institutional representative for the internal selection phase.1) Title page (print on Department letterhead please)
Please use this format only (do not create an introductory letter)
a) Title of this RFA: Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholars Program in Aging
b) Title of proposed research
c) Name of nominee, appointment, department, address, email address
2) Nomination letter addressed to Dr. Peter Sarnow and the School of Medicine Awards committee, printed on your department letterhead, signed by your division chief OR your department chair. This letter should address the evaluation criteria discussed above (i.e., the nominee's potential for scientific innovation, leadership and relevance to aging.)
(Candidates-you are encouraged to obtain a nomination letter as soon as possible, given the challenge of obtaining the letter and the signature from your division chief or department chair in light of their schedules as well as the Thanksgiving holiday.)
3) Description of proposed research, not to exceed four pages. Include description of:
Aims
Methods
Significance of the proposed research, including its relevance to biomedical aspects of aging
References and illustrations are not included in the page total
4) Biosketch
5) Other support: include list of current and pending funding sources with name of sponsor, amount of funding, and the term
Selection Process
Your proposals will be distributed to the School of Medicine Awards Committee members. They will select the top two applicants to represent the university. The sponsor's deadline is Feb. 25, 2010.
