CAF Accepting Applications for 2021 Medical Research Grants & Fellowships Until Feb 1, 2021
November 2, 2020 – The Cooley’s Anemia Foundation is accepting applications for medical research grants and fellowships in areas related to thalassemia. The awards are in two categories: (1) Support for Ongoing Clinical Research in Thalassemia, and (2) Research Fellowships.
Details are as follows:
SUPPORT FOR ONGOING CLINICAL RESEARCH IN THALASSEMIA
The Cooley’s Anemia Foundation invites national and international applicants to apply for grants to support ongoing clinical research projects in thalassemia.
The goal of this initiative is to support investigators from all disciplines and backgrounds (MD, RN, PhD, MPH, MSW or other disciplines) with their ongoing clinical projects to address one or more of the following areas impacting patients with thalassemia, including but not limited to: cardiac issues and iron overload; fertility, pregnancy and family planning; quality of life, psychosocial impact and/or burden of disease.
The stipends will be $50,000 annually with possibility of one-year renewal upon submission of a renewal application. Approval will be based upon determination of satisfactory progress and availability of funds. Funds may be used for either salary or non-salary purposes, but the administrative cost is limited to 10% of the total amount granted.
This level of funding would be appropriate for support of innovative small-scale pilot studies, observational trials, or ancillary support for ongoing interventional studies (for example, support of a trainee joining an existing trial, or new biological endpoint analyses for an existing trial). In the case of ancillary studies, investigators should clearly document the support for the parent trial in their “other support” declarations.
Junior and senior faculty are eligible; fellows and trainees are not eligible. Investigators must interact directly with patients or patient-related data. Basic research, when included in this “Ongoing Clinical Research” program, must be related to a direct clinical focus of the grant application.
Assurance must be given that adequate facilities exist and will continue to be available to conduct the research project and that the project has been reviewed and approved by the appropriate committee or governing body on human research. The research may not be conducted at a for-profit laboratory.
Letters of Intent:
Interested individuals are invited to submit a letter of intent by December 21, 2020, which includes the name of primary applicant, affiliation, and focus of proposal (not to exceed one paragraph). The completed application is due Monday, February 1, 2021. Both the letter of intent and the application should be emailed in PDF format to: info@thalassemia.org
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
The Cooley’s Anemia Foundation invites national and international clinical and basic science investigators (postdoctoral or junior faculty) to apply for its prestigious fellowship program. Applications should be focused on the understanding or treatment of thalassemia or a complication that is related to thalassemia. The areas of interest include, but are not limited to, studies of globin gene regulation, globin gene transfer and expression, fetal hemoglobin production, hematopoietic stem cell research, bone marrow transplantation, iron chelation and iron overload, endocrine and cardiac disorders in thalassemia, and transfusion therapy and its complications.
Postdoctoral applicants must have adequate preceptorship and guidance by an experienced investigator. The sponsor of a postdoctoral fellow should be an investigator with adequate experience and at an institution with adequate research facilities. The application is expected to be the original work of the candidate but should reflect the close advice of the interested and involved sponsor. Postdoctoral applicants must have an M.D., Ph.D., or equivalent degree, and cannot hold a faculty position.
Junior faculty applicants must have an M.D., Ph.D., or equivalent degree, and must have completed less than five years at the assistant professor level at the time the applications are due. Junior faculty members do not require sponsors.
Fellowships are awarded to the medical institutions where the research is to be undertaken; thus, each application must be approved by and administered through the appropriate administrative representative at the institution. Assurance must be given that adequate laboratory facilities exist and are available to conduct the research project and, in case of investigations involving human subjects, that the project has been reviewed and approved by the appropriate committee or governing body on human research. The research may not be conducted at a for-profit laboratory.
Preference will be given to applicants who have not yet achieved R-01 funding from the NIH.
Fellowship awards are limited to a maximum of $50,000/year. Awards are for a one-year period, beginning July 1, 2021 and running through June 30, 2022 and are renewable for a second year upon application and consideration of progress made in the first year and the research plan for the second year. Continuation of fellowships for year two will also be contingent upon the availability of funds.
Interested individuals are invited to complete and return applications and letters of reference in PDF format via email (info@thalassemia.org) no later than Monday, February 1, 2021. Notification will be given to applicants by June 30, 2021.
Click here to download an application for the Research Fellowship Grant.
For additional information, please contact:
Cooley’s Anemia Foundation
info@thalassemia.org
212-279-8090