The Duke University School of Medicine and North Carolina Central University (NCCU) are recipients of a NICHD K12 Institutional Training Grant (Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health; BIRCWH) that provides faculty at Duke or NCCU 75% salary support (50% for surgical specialties) for up to $100,000 per year for a minimum of two years.
The BIRCWH is a mentored career development program for junior faculty, who have recently completed clinical training or postdoctoral fellowships, and who will be engaged in interdisciplinary basic, translational, behavioral, clinical, and/or health services research relevant to women's health or sex differences research. BIRCWH research spans the entire spectrum of Women’s Health topics, and the program is open to all types of clinicians and non-clinicians.
BIRCWH’s goal is to increase the number of women’s health investigators, expand their skills through a mentored research career development experience, promote interdisciplinary research, foster productive and innovative collaborations, and transfer findings that will benefit the health of women, including sex/gender similarities or differences in biology, health or disease.
We anticipate supporting one new Duke BIRCWH Scholar as of Nov 1, 2012.
[box]Letters of intent are due Sept. 28, 2012 and application's are due Oct. 10, 2012.[/box]
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