Award-Limited Submission – Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award; November 1, 2011

The mission of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is to improve the quality of people's lives through
grants supporting the performing arts, environmental conservation, medical research and the prevention
of child abuse, and through preservation of the cultural and environmental legacy of Doris Duke's properties.

The Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award provides grants to junior physician-scientists to facilitate their transition to independent clinical research careers.  The foundation plans to award up to 12 grants in 2012 of $150,000 per year in direct costs and $12,000 per year in indirect costs over three years to junior faculty level physician-scientists conducting clinical research in any disease area.

Applicants must:

• Be a physician-scientist conducting clinical research in any disease area.
• Have received an M.D. or a foreign equivalent from an accredited institution.
• Be working in a U.S. degree-granting institution, but do not have to be a U.S. citizen.
• Have a full-time faculty level position not higher than the Assistant Professor level. Full-time post-fellowship Instructor positions will be considered full-time faculty level appointments only when these positions are recognized as such by the nominating institution. Adjunct or acting positions are not eligible.
• Have been appointed to their first full-time faculty level position between January 1, 2007 and January 1, 2012.
• Be guaranteed a minimum overall research time protection of 75% effort by the nominating institution.
• Not be the principal or co-principal investigator on a National Institute of Health R01 research grant, a research project that is part of a P01 program project or P50 center grant, or a U01 cooperative agreement. 

Note: For the purposes of this award program, clinical research involves the scientific investigation of the etiology, prevention, diagnosis or treatment of human disease using human subjects, human populations or materials of human origin. Included in the definition are studies that utilize tissues or pathogens only if they can be linked to a patient.

Applicants are allowed to hold a National Institutes of Health K series award or other career development award at the same time as the CSDA grant. However, applicants must propose distinct and different research aims in their CSDA application, and there should be no scientific or budgetary overlap.

Program website: http://www.ddcf.org/Medical-Research/Program-Strategies/Clinical-Research/Clinical-Scientist-Development-Award/

Because each institution may nominate only two candidates, UK will hold an internal competition to identify the University's nominees. Eligible individuals who would like to be considered for this program should submit the following information to the Office of the Vice President for Research at vpr@email.uky.edu and a copy to his or her Associate Dean for Research by Tuesday, November 1, 2011:

· Candidate’s name, department, academic rank, and date of appointment

• Tentative title of proposed research project; identify the primary disease area and the clinical research type using Doris Duke Charitable Foundation terminology. See following link http://www.ddcf.org/Global/MedicalResearch/2012%20CSDA/11%201005%20Nomination%20instructions%20with%20nomination%20reference%20sheet.pdf and scroll down to the 2^nd page (Nomination Reference Sheet) for the two specific dropdown menus (primary disease area and clinical research type). Additional proposal narrative is not requested for the internal application.
• Letter from department chair or other senior researcher that includes a description of the innovative merit of the candidate’s research, and a statement on how this work has potential to advance the state of the art

The Vice President for Research will appoint a committee to review the material and make a recommendation as to the University's nominees. Deadline for UK’s online submission of nominations is on or before November 16, 2011. The Foundation will email the selected nominees a link to the online application site; their complete research proposals will be due electronically on or before December 21, 2011.

Questions about the submission process may be sent to Ms. Annette Evans in the Office of the Vice President for Research (alevan4@email.uky.edu or 257-1663.)