The Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation is accepting applications for a new limited nomination funding opportunity for tenure track faculty who do not currently have an RO1. The funds are designed to provide tenure track faculty members at American Institutions with start-up support to move the project forward to the point where R01 or other independent funding can be obtained.
The mission of the Foundation is to support early stage investigators engaged in basic biomedical research that has the potential to significantly advance the understanding, diagnosis or treatment of disease.
Eligibility:
Applicants should be in the first to fourth year of their tenure track faculty position and not have current R01 funding. Instructors, clinical instructor and clinical educator line faculty are not eligible. The Foundation is most interested in basic research with upstream potential for impacting disease.
Other funding restrictions:
The intent of the sponsor is to support highly promising young investigators at the time when start-up funds are limited. If you have significant funding such as another foundation career development award or an NIH R01, you are not eligible. It is not the intent to support projects that are already under way and are already receiving significant grant support to provide long-range funding beyond an initial 3-year period of support.
Deadlines:
- Duke Internal Deadline: June 17, 2015
- Grant Awards Deadline: August 1, 2015
The official announcement and description of this award may be found on the funding agency's website: http://emallinckrodtfoundation.org/Guidelines.html
Requirements:
Proposals must be accompanied by letters of approval by the Dean of the medical school and/or other senior faculty member(s) who can represent the support of the institution who are acquainted with the qualifications of the applicant.
Award Amount:
The regular grants provide $60,000 per year for a period of up to three years. The Foundation will not fund overhead.
Internal Nomination Process:
Owing to the sponsor's restriction on the number of applications that may be submitted from Duke, anyone wishing to pursue nomination should submit the following materials as one PDF via the upload feature on the ORS website. Please use 12pt / Times New Roman or Arial.
- A letter of support from dean or chair - 1 to 1.5 pages
- Project summary - 5 pages maximum
- CV - New NIH Format (must not exceed 5 pages)
- Budget: Proposals must contain an adequate budget with a breakdown as to how the funds will be used. It is important to justify how the funds to be received will be used to advance the unique problem under study in a way that cannot be done with existing funds. In addition, the proposal must detail the levels of support of any grants already available or pending.
The above materials should be compiled (in the order listed above) into one PDF file. Go to Institutionally Limited Nominations/Current Open Competitions: https://ors.duke.edu/orsmanual/current-competitions, select the appropriate competition and click the Applicant button. Follow the instructions to create a profile; return to the funding opportunity; click the Applicant Button on the Opportunities page and then upload your file. Please remember to click Submit after you upload.
The link to FundOpps database: https://researchfunding.duke.edu/Detail.asp?OppID=2002
If you have questions about this institutionally limited funding opportunity, please email Anastasia Maddox at amm39@duke.edu.