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 Announcing The UNCF•MERCK Postdoctoral
Science Research Fellowships
The United Negro College Fund and the Merck Research Laboratories have collaborated to bring an exciting initiative to colleges and universities across the country. This program is designed to increase the number of African Americans in the pipeline of biomedical science education and research. Ten awards are given annually. Each award of up to $70,000 consists of: Fellowship stipend up to $55,000; Department grant up to $15,000. To be considered for the UNCF•Merck Postdoctoral Science Research Fellowships, applicants must be African American (Black), a Ph.D. or equivalent degree recipient in a life or physical science by the end of the 2006-2007 academic year, appointed as a new or continuing postdoctoral fellow during the 2006 calendar year at an academic or non-academic research institution (private industrial laboratories are excluded), and a U.S. citizen or permanent resident. Submitted applications must be postmarked by December 15, 2006.
The Staglin Family, through the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD), the world's largest nongovernmental funding source for mental health research, established the $250,000 award to be made each year to one investigator with a doctoral degree and postdoctoral traning applicable to schizophrenia, at ASSISTANT or ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR leve, age 45 or younger. Nomination from Dean or Chair of employing University required.
Deadline: December 4, 2006, start date September 15, 2007.
More info: http://www.narsad.org or telephone: 516-829-5576.
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 The New Australia Fellowship
The New Australia Fellowship aims to attract and retain leading health and medical researchers. It is designed for outstanding senior health and medical researchers across all disciplines and will consist of a one line budget of $800,000 per annum for five years. Applications are invited from leading researchers both in Australia and around the world.
Applicants will need to demonstrate their leading international status in their fields, and also to propose a research program of major impact and benefit to Australia.
Application deadline: December 8, 2006
More info: http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/fellows/
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 The Wings for Life Spinal Cord Research Foundation
The Wings for Life Spinal Cord Research Foundation is a grant giving charity funding research aimed at resolving spinal cord injury-induced impairments. We invite applications for project grants in basic science, applied basic science, and clinical sciences. Proposals should have a view to translation from the laboratory to the clinical setting and have the likelihood of providing real benefits to human patients. Visit www.wingsforlife.com to download the necessary documents.
Deadline: December 1, 2006.
More info: www.wingsforlife.com
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New Award to Stimulate Cutting-Edge
Biomimetics Research
The Biomimetics Network for Industrial Sustainability welcomes applicatiosn for the First BIONIS Biomimetics 3000®AB. This new £5,000 award will develop the career of an outstanding biomimetics expert by allowing them to further develop their career and knowledge. Applications for the award are being accepted from today. It is being sponsored by Swedish Biomimetics 3000® and is being organized by BIONIS- Biomimetics Network for Industrial Sustainability. Applicants should submit a detailed Curriculum Vitae and statement on how they would benefit from the award and where they intend visiting.
Deadline: December 4, 2006 (at 11:00am GMT).
More info: http://www.extra.rdg.ac.uk/eng/BIONIS/
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UFAW Animal Welfare Research Training Scholarship
As part of its endeavors to encourage high quality science likely to lead to substantial advances in animal welfare, UFAW is running a scheme to award UFAW Animal Welfare Research Training Scholarships to enable promising veterinary or science graduates to undertake three-year programmes of research leading to degrees at the doctorate level within the British Isles. UFAW would like particularly to encourage applications in the following fields:
- development of methodologies aimed at elucidation of the neurological basis of sentience in animals
- developments in approaches to alleviating welfare problems in farmed, companion and/or laboratory animals through breeding
- developments in detection and alleviation of pain
- development of methods of welfare / quality of life assessment
The stipend for science graduates will be £16,283 rising to £19,230 for the third year (London weighting £18,211 rising to £21,507 for the third year) and for veterinary graduates, £17,097 rising to £20,192 for the third year (London weighting £19,121 rising to £22,583 for the third year). In addition, research costs up to £10,000 pa and approved tuition fees up to £3235 pa will be met (Applications for tuition fees in excess of this amount may be considered).
Deadline: December 1, 2006.
More info: http://www.ufaw.org.uk/AWResearchtrainingscholarship.php
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International Okamoto Award 2007
For a researcher who has achieved a highly remarkable and internationally regarded result in: Basic research on vascular diseases sch as hypertension, arteriosclerosis, diabetes and so forth. The award was established in 1985, in celebration of the memory of Dr. Kozo Okamoto who had established Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat (SHR).
How to apply:
Only by recommendation. Please send (1) letter of nomination, (2) brief curriculum vitae of the candidate, (3) summary of the candidate's research, (4) list of publications, and (5) reprints of some major works, using a set of formats fixed by the Foundation. Please ask the Secretariat to send it to recommender.
Deadline: January 15, 2007
Japan Vascular Disease Research Foundation
Kokusai Kenju Bldg
1F, 86 Jodoji Shimobannba-cho,
Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8413, Japan
E-mail: info@jvdrf.or.jp
Fax: +81-75-761-2382
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 Research on Neurocognition and Schizophrenia (TURNS)
The Treatment Units for Research on Neurocognition and Schizophrenia (TURNS) program is currently accepting applications via the Compound Nomination Form for its second round of nominations of suitable candidate drugs for enhancing cognition in individuals with schizophrenia. The TURNS program is a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) supported network that will provide an infrastructure for clinical studies of pharmacological agents for enhancing neurocognition in patients with schizophrenia. Compounds ay be nominated using the Compound Nomination Form which can either be downloaded from the TURNS website (www.TURNS.ucla.edu) or requested by email at mc157@columbia.edu.
Deadline: January 15, 2007.
More info: www.TURNS.ucla.edu
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 The Marine Biological Laboratory
The Marine Biological Laboratory is pleased to announce the availability of funding for Summer Research Fellowships for junior or senior investigators holding a Ph.D., M.D., or equivalent degree. These prestigious awards provide costs for research and housing, and also enable Fellows to benefit from the rich intellectual and interactive environment of the scientific community at the MBL. Proposals for Fellowship support will be considered in, but are not limited to, the following fields of investigation:
- Cellular and Molecular Physiology
- Neurobiology
- Parasitology
- Molecular Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Ecology
- Microbiology
Application Deadline: January 15
More info: http://www.mbl.edu/research/summer/fellowships_list.html
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ScienceInfo’s Travel Grant Winners
The winners of ScienceInfo's Travel Grant will be notified by November 15 by email. The winners' name and their photo will appear in the December 2006 grant eNewsletter.
New requests for applications will be posted in December Newsletter for 2007 travel awards.
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News You Can Use
The X PRIZE Foundation announced the $10 million Archon X PRIZE for Genomics — A multi-million dollar incentive to create technology that can successfully map 100 human genomes in 10 days. The prize is designed to usher in a new era of personalized preventative medicine and stimulate new avenues of research and development of medical sciences.
The Archon X PRIZE for Genomics challenges scientists and engineers to create better, cheaper and faster ways to sequence genomes. The knowledge gained by compiling and comparing a library of human genomes will create a new era of preventive and personalized medicine — and transform medical care from reactive to proactive.
More info: http://genomics.xprize.org/
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