PND - RFPs - Mid-Career Investigators Invited to Apply for 2010 Julie Martin Award in Aging Research

Mid-Career Investigators Invited to Apply for 2010 Julie Martin Award in Aging Research

Sponsored by the Ellison Medical Foundation and administered by the American Federation for Aging Research, the Julie Martin Mid-Career Award in Aging Research provides support for outstanding mid-career scientists who propose novel directions of high importance to biological gerontology.

Proposals in areas where NIH awards or other traditional funding sources are unlikely to be provided because the research is high risk are particularly encouraged if they have potential to lead to major new advances in the understanding of basic mechanisms of aging. Projects investigating age-related diseases are also supported, but only if approached from the point of view of how basic aging processes may lead to these outcomes.

Projects that deal strictly with clinical problems such as the diagnosis and treatment of disease, health outcomes, or the social context of aging are not eligible.

The applicant must be an associate professor who achieved tenured status after December 1, 2006. Non-tenured associate professors at institutions with tenure are not eligible. Applicants at institutions that do not offer tenure must demonstrate that their appointment is equivalent to that of an associate professor who received tenure status after December 1, 2006. The proposed research must be conducted at any type of not-for-profit setting in the United States.

Two four-year awards of $500,000 each will be made in 2010 at the level of $125,000 per year. In addition, up to $50,000 may be requested for administrative/indirect costs.

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