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| Senior Scholar Award in Aging Application Procedures The Senior Scholar Letters of Intent deadline is March 9, 2005, 5:00pm Eastern Standard Time. Download for Letter of Intent Instructions and Cover Page The Ellison Medical Foundation was established and is supported by Lawrence J. Ellison to support biomedical research (including basic biology, basic biomedicine and epidemiology) on aging. The Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar program is designed to support established investigators, working at institutions in the U.S., to conduct research in the basic biological and basic biomedical sciences relevant to understanding aging processes and age-related diseases and disabilities. The award is intended to provide significant support to established investigators in order to allow the development of new, creative research programs by investigators who may not currently be conducting aging research or who may wish to develop new research programs in aging. The Foundation particularly wishes to stimulate new research, which has rigorous scientific foundations, but which may not be currently funded adequately, because of its perceived novelty, its high risk, or because it is from an area where traditional research interests absorb most funding. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to
Eligibility
Applicants for the Senior Scholar Award are expected to
furnish evidence of substantial prior scientific creativity
and productivity not necessarily targeted to aging heretofore.
Evaluation by the Aging Initial Review Group and the Scientific Advisory Board will be based upon
the applicant's submission re: scientific contributions to
date, the quality of publications, and the importance to aging
of the proposed new research. The Aging Initial Review Group and the Scientific Advisory Board will pay close attention to arguments as to why the work does
not or would not qualify for support from established sources
such as the NIA. Except for compelling circumstances, the
awards are not intended to supplement ongoing, already funded
programs but, instead, to inspire new directions, which may
entail substantial risk. There is no limit on the number of Senior Scholar letters of intent from any one institution.
Letter of Intent for Submitting an Application - Instructions
Download for Letter of Intent Instructions and Cover Page.
Letters of Intent to submit an application must be received before 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) March 9, 2005 at The Ellison Medical Foundation address below. Letters of Intent received after March 9 will be deferred to a future round as and when it is announced. Letters of Intent are limited to two pages. Letters of Intent and the cover page (see link above) should include a brief description of the proposed research, a brief description of the applicant’s current research, and a statement of the relevance of the proposed research to aging. A one page bibliography of prior works (do not include reprints), and a one page C.V. for the applicant (including current support with titles, source, duration and level of support), should be appended to the Letter of Intent. The original plus twelve collated paper copies of all items and one diskette (floppy, CD or zip) copy of the above as a single file should be submitted. Acceptable formats are MS Word, WordPerfect, and RTF (rich text formatted). If you send a PDF file, please make sure to also include the source file from which the PDF was created. Files coming from Windows, Macintosh, DOS, or Linux are acceptable.
Applicants invited to submit a full application will be notified of their selection and provided with application forms about (to be announced). Applications will be due in The Ellison Medical Foundation office by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on (to be announced).
Terms of the Award The Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar Awards in Aging will
be issued in early October 2004. Up to ten awards are
anticipated in this round, pending sufficient meritorious
applications.
Each award will be made for up to $150,000 per year direct
cost, with indirect cost added to that, for up to four
years.
Funding for years two, three and four is
contingent upon submission of an acceptable progress
report. Acceptable uses for award funds include salary, other
personnel, equipment, supplies, resource acquisition and
travel. Carry-overs in excess of
$25,000 must be approved by the Ellison Medical
Foundation Scholars Program Office. Full indirect costs
at the NIH negotiated rate will be provided. The Ellison Medical Foundation does not permit indirect costs on equipment or movement of indirect costs to direct costs.
As applicable to the individual project, the Foundation will require the following documentation before an award can be made: For further information, contact: |
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