Fellows Career Development Awards

Application deadline: Friday, January 30, 2009
(9 a.m. Eastern Time/ 6 a.m. Pacific Time)

The ATS is pleased to announce the 2009/2010 Fellows Career Development Awards. The awards are available to fellows who are presently in training in combined pulmonary-critical care.  In 2008 the ATS will provide eight one-year grants funded at $50,000. The program is funded by a generous unrestricted grant from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).  Award recipients will be announced in May 2009 at the ATS International Conference in San Diego. 

Please note that we will accept multiple applications from the same program.  However, the intent of this fellowship is to fund only one applicant per program.  Exceptions may be made if one of the applications is in pediatrics and the other one is in adult pulmonology/critical care.

The grants are designed for academic career development beyond initial clinical training.  Eligible candidates are trainees who are beyond 2nd year fellowship in pulmonary/critical care fellowship training programs.  Individuals who already have full faculty positions are not eligible.

The funding cycle for the 2009/2010 awards will begin July 1, 2009, and will conclude June 30, 2010.  The award funds may be used for any combination of salary or laboratory support.  The budget cannot exceed $50,000 in direct costs annually. Indirect costs will not be paid to the parent institution.

Application Process
All interested applicants must submit their applications online through proposalCENTRAL - https://proposalcentral.altum.com.

To avoid being rushed at deadline time, applicants are encouraged to register and complete a professional profile at proposalCENTRAL as early as possible. Applicants should make sure their grants and contracts office has registered their institution and signing officials with proposalCENTRAL.

A proposalCENTRAL helpline is available for technical questions from applicants from 8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., Monday-Friday, EST.   Phone: 1-800-875-2562 x227 (toll free) or 703-964-5840 (Direct Dial International), E-mail: pcsupport@altum.com

For general and eligibility questions, please contact:
Monica Simon, Director, ATS Research Program

Please note that funding is also available for awards for fellows presently in training in allergy-immunology.   The deadline for the allergy/immunology application is January 19th, 2009 (11 p.m. Central time).  For more information or to obtain an application form, please contact Jerome Schultz, Program Manager, jschultz@aaaai.org , Tel: 414-272-6071.

We wish you success with your application and look forward to seeing you at the ATS International Conference in San Diego.

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