Stanford Medicine Children’s Health Center for IBD and Celiac Disease Postdoctoral and Early Career Support Award

This grant provides salary support, including fringe benefits, for postdoctoral fellows and instructors in support of a specific project related to maternal and/or child health with a focus on pediatric IBD and celiac disease research. Medical fellows (MD or equivalent) training in a clinical fellowship program should not apply through this funding mechanism.

• Eligibility is for all PhD postdoctoral fellows and MD and/or PhD instructors. Clinical instructors are not eligible to apply.
• Applicants who completed a first post-doctoral fellowship at an institution not affiliated with Stanford University and wish to pursue a second post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University in a scientific area different from their first post-doctoral fellowship are eligible.
• Postdoc projects resulting in a shift from adjacent research to pediatric IBD and celiac disease research in the mentor’s lab, are encouraged.
• Instructors applying for this funding mechanism are required to submit a signed letter of support from the department chair or division chief.
• Resubmissions shall be limited to one.
• Funding for year two is not guaranteed and subject to review of progress and career plans and documentation of the awardee’s application for external funding.
   

The primary research mentor must be one of the following:

• MD, MD/PhD, or PhD whose primary focus is maternal and/or child health research.
• MD, MD/PhD, or PhD who wishes to expand his/her interest in maternal and/or child health research.
• The mentor should be at the Assistant Professor rank or above with a track record as a research mentor.
   

Additionally, the primary research mentor and applicant must also be a Member of the Stanford Medicine Children’s Health Center for IBD and Celiac Disease. The mentor must meet one of the following categories:

• Primary IBD or celiac disease focus in basic, translational, clinical, or population research. Evidence of a primary focus includes:    
  • Relevant, peer-reviewed funding from a national funding agency 
  • Significant contribution to clinical research (e.g., PI on trials, writing investigator-initiated trials, enrolling large numbers of patients in clinical trials, contributing significantly to publications involving clinical trials) 
  • High-level accomplishments in IBD or celiac disease- related publications and presentations relative to peer group 
  • Support education/training or outreach in an IBD or celiac disease- related discipline 
  • Extensive collaboration with, and intellectual contribution to IBD- and celiac disease- focused research
• Emerging or relevant research to IBD- or celiac disease- focus in basic, translational, clinical, or population research and/or makes significant contributions to the research of Center members
• IBD or celiac disease- focused clinical activities, including:
  • Providing clinical care for significant numbers of IBD or celiac disease patients
  • Enrolling patients in IBD or celiac disease clinical trials (but not as PI or trial author)