CFRI Early Career Physician Scientist Development Grant
The CFRI Early Career Physician Scientist Development Program supports clinical and basic research at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital. The award will provide physician scientist recipients with a maximum 20% salary support to allow protected time for research. The program prioritizes research proposals from junior faculty members.
Junior faculty members at Le Bonheur with UTHSC faculty appointments who are also fewer than five years out of training and interested in pursuing pediatric research are eligible to apply. The applicant must propose an independent research project with a pediatric focus that they will undertake after receiving the award. Principal investigators can submit only one project for review. Investigators are limited to funding for no more than three consecutive years. No adult studies will be considered.
Grants provide salary support for protected time for one year of funding with a maximum of $30,000. Additionally, a maximum of $30,000 with appropriate justification may also be requested to support personnel costs, supplies and approved equipment.
Grants may be renewed twice, for a total of three years of funding by submitting a renewal application with a progress report and a budget report at the end of the first and second years. Renewal applications will be judged for additional funding based on progress made in the past year.
Applicants should complete the online CFRI Early Career Physician Scientist Development Program Grant application and include a cover letter that outlines his/her research career
development plans and how the funding will facilitate these plans. Applicants will need to identify a faculty mentor who will supply a letter of support, as well as an NIH-style biosketch.
Applicants may use these grant funds to supplement other funding sources if there is no budgetary overlap and the budget is well justified.
The deadline for applications is Oct. 31, 2024 at 5 p.m. For more information and to apply, visit https://www.lebonheur.org/research/physician-scientist-grant/
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