Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award

Office of Grant Writing & Publications 202 Jesse Hall University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211 573 882-9500 phone 573 884-8371 fax

Limited Submission Announcement

The Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award provides grants to junior physician-scientists to facilitate their transition to independent clinical research careers. The transition to an independent research career is often more difficult for physician-scientists conducting clinical research than it is for other researchers, as these individuals must balance both the demands of seeing patients with those of conducting research. It is the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's hope that by providing stable support at a critical career juncture for physician-scientists, the Clinical Scientist Development Award will encourage physicians to pursue careers in clinical research.

Nominees must

• be a physician-scientist conducting clinical research in any disease area;
• have received an M.D. or a foreign equivalent from an accredited institution;
• be working in a U.S. degree-granting institution, but do not have to be a U.S. citizen;
• have a full-time faculty-level position not higher than the assistant professor level; and
• Have been appointed to their first full-time faculty level position between January 1, 2004 and January 1, 2009. (All full-time post-fellowship Instructor level positions will be considered full-time faculty level appointments).

For the purposes of this award program, clinical research is defined as research conducted with human subjects with direct application to the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, or cure of any human disease. Note that experiments that utilize animals or primary tissues derived from animals will not be supported by this program. The Foundation’s definition of clinical research includes studies on the etiology and pathogenesis of human disease,  therapeutic interventions, clinical trials, epidemiological studies, disease control research, and/or operations and implementation research.

Because MU is limited to two applications for this program, letters of intent must be submitted to the Office of Research, ltdsub@missouri.edu, no later than 4:00 p.m., Friday, October 30, 2009.  Letters of intent should be limited to a two-page summary of the proposed research, its originality and methods, along with a two-page biographical sketch of the nominee.

URL for more information: http://www.ddcf.org/mrp-csda

This notice is being sent to deans, directors, and chairs in health and life science disciplines. Please forward it to other faculty members who may be interested.

All limited submission announcements can be tracked by deadline via the Calendar at research.missouri.edu or by announcement date via the Limited Submissions listing at http://research.missouri.edu/ogwp/lsa.htm.