Fellows Career Development Awards

Application deadline: Monday, January 7, 2008
(Midnight Eastern Time/ 11pm Central Time)

The ATS is pleased to announce the 2008/2009 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 2008 at the pre-ATS International Conference Allergy-Pulmonary Fellows Program in Toronto. 

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 2008/2009 awards will begin July 1, 2008, and will conclude June 30, 2009.  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.

During the period of this award awardees may not accept other training awards or external funds that provide stipend or salary support for the work outlined in this application. Additional salary support provided by the awardee's home institution is allowed. Awardees may accept grants and additional awards to fund budgeted research and other non-salary career development expenses, but these funds may not be duplicative of any such expenses funded by this trainee award.

*New* for 2008: Online Application Process

In our efforts to improve the application process we will be using an electronic grants submission 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 questions from applicants from 8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., Monday-Friday, EST.   Phone: 1-800-875-2562 x227 (toll free) or 301-916-4557 x227 E-mail: pcsupport@altum.com

Grant applicants will find many benefits to this new e-grant application process, including:

• Easy-to-complete applications that can be developed, stored, revised, and submitted on-line;
• Paper copies of the application will no longer be required;
• Immediate confirmation of application submission and status updates throughout the process
• Toll-free (1-800-875-2562 x227 ) and e-mail (pcsupport@altum.com) technical and customer support;
• On-line tutorials available for preparing your proposal online;
• Online access to reviewers’ critiques of your application.

For technical assistance and questions, please contact proposalCENTRAL technical support at 800-875-2562 x227 or301-916-4557 x227, from 8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. EST, Monday-Friday, or by e-mail at  pcsupport@altum.com.

For general and eligibility questions, please contact:
Monica Simon, Director, ATS Research Program
Sharon I. S. Rounds, MD, Co-Chair, ATS Review Committee
Polly E. Parsons MD, Co-Chair, ATS Review Committee

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 November 30, 2007 (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 Toronto.

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