Posted on December 20, 2012
Deadline: March 7, 2013 (Letters of Intent)

Ellison Medical Foundation Invites Applications for Senior Scholar in Aging Award

The Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar program is designed to help established investigators working at institutions in the United States conduct research in the basic biological and basic biomedical sciences relevant to understanding lifespan development processes and age-related diseases and disabilities.

The award is intended to provide significant support to allow the development of new, creative research programs by investigators who currently may not be conducting aging research or who wish to develop new research programs in aging. The foundation particularly seeks to stimulate new research that has rigorous scientific foundations but is inadequately funded, either because of its perceived novelty, high risk, or because it is from an area where other "traditional" research interests absorb most funding.

Areas of interest include but are not limited to structural biology, molecular genetics, studies with model systems ranging from lower eukaryotes to humans, inquiries testing the relevance of simpler models to human aging, genetic epidemiology of aging, aging in the immune system, host defense molecules in aging systems, mechanisms of free radical-induced cell aging, mechanisms of aging in various differentiated cell populations, gene/environment and gene/gene interactions, integrative physiology, and new approaches to age-modulated disease mechanisms.

Established investigators employed by 501(c)(3) institutions, colleges, universities, or nonprofit research organizations are eligible to apply.

Awards provide up to $150,000 in direct costs per year, plus full indirect costs for four years. Up to twenty-five Senior Scholar awards will be made.

Visit the Ellison Medical Foundation Web site for complete program guidelines and application procedures.

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Primary Subject: Medical Research
Geographic Funding Area: National

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