Grants & Funding

Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine

Published Date: October 21, 2009

Program Information

Program Name:

ADA-ASP Young Investigator Innovation Award in Geriatric Endocrinology

Program URL:

http://www.im.org/CareerDevelopment/GrantsandScholarships/TFWS/TFranklinWilliamsAwards/Pages

Type of Scientists Funded:

Junior Faculty

Program Description:

In partnership with the American Diabetes Association (ADA), the Association of Specialty Professors (ASP) offers the ADA-ASP Young Investigator Innovation Award in Geriatric Endocrinology. The 2-year $150,000 award funds the early stages of career development for an endocrinologist with a focus on diabetes, interested in geriatric medicine. The award supports entry-level faculty to integrate geriatrics with novel basic, clinical, or health services diabetes research. In addition, ASP offers travel grants for recipients to attend two American Geriatrics Society Annual Scientific Meetings and one ADA meeting. ASP also offers funds for the recipient to visit either a geriatrician or an endocrinologist with a professional research background similar to the recipient's research focus and present on his or her research at the host's institution.

Public Contact Information

Program Award Term and Application Process

• Award Term Fixed or Variable?    Variable
• Minimum Term     
• Maximum Term     
• Award Renewable?    No
• Does an individual or institution apply to the program?    Individual
• Is there an application deadline?    Yes
• Application deadline(s):
  01/15/2010

Program FUNDS

• Stipend Information:
  
  
• Annual stipend type:    Not Applicable
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  Research Allowance Information:
  
  
• Annual research allowance type:    Not Applicable
• 
  Indirect Costs (Institutional Funds) Information:
  
  
• Indirect costs type:    Not Applicable
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  Other Costs Information:
  
  
• Other Costs type:    Not Applicable

Program Eligibility Requirements

Research Areas:

Clinical Research, Disease-Specific Research: Diabetes, Other (specify): Endocrinology, Diabetes, Geriatric Medicine

Application by invitation or nomination only?

No

Are awards limited to specific groups?

None provided

Must applicants be U.S. citizens and/or permanent residents?

Yes

U.S. geographic limits?

No

International geographic limits?

Institutional limits?

No

Non-research activity allowed for postdoctoral and junior faculty awards?

If yes, specify at least one of the following: percentage time and activities allowed

• Other eligibility requirements:   
  Applicant must have a faculty appointment equal to an assistant professorship by July 1, 2010. Applicant must be a US citizen or have applied for permanent US resident status. Applicant must have completed a fellowship in endocrinology, leading to certification by the American Board of Internal Medicine. Applicant must be within the first 3 years of his or her first faculty appointment. Applicant must commit 75% of professional effort to research activities. Applicant must develop and implement a basic, clinical, translational, or health services research project focused on a geriatric aspect of diabetes and metabolism. Applicant must generate and implement a career development plan with mentors from endocrinology and geriatric medicine. The plan must include: (1)A mentorship team comprised, at a minimum, of a geriatrician, an endocrinologist, and a research mentor. (2)Specific measures for the continued involvement in structured geriatrics activities including, for example, developing appropriate educational resources, teaching the geriatric medicine aspects of diabetes or metabolism, or developing specialty clinical services focused on geriatric patients.

Program competition information

• Number of Applicants in Most Recent Competition Year:   
• Number of Awards in Most Recent Competition Year:   
• Institutional Award Rates   

  Category	# Applicants	# Awards
  Institutional Awards

• Awardee's subsequent careers/accomplishments tracked after end of term?   
  
• Total dollars awarded in the most recent competition year