Sponsor: Warren Alpert Foundation
Program: Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholar Award
Program number: 2024
Award amount: 200,000 per year for 2 years
Number of applications UW can put forward: 1
OR internal deadline: 8/16/2023
OSP deadline: 10/23/2023
Sponsor deadline: Nominations are due 11/1/2023
Program Description:
The Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholars program will support individual postdoctoral scientists of exceptional creativity in the field of neurosciences. These transitional awards are to enable a postdoctoral researcher to advance to become a full-time faculty member at the Assistant Professor level or higher and to promote the development of a laboratory program that will lead to independent funding. The medical school, research institute, or academic hospital appointing the scholar will be awarded $200,000 annually for two years to cover salary, lab costs, and related expenses. Under certain circumstances, the awardee may transfer funding to support their beginning faculty position. Scholars will be chosen on the basis of the success in their prior post-doctoral work and other research as well as in the importance and creativity of their proposed future research.
Eligibility
• Must have an MD, PhD, or both.
• Must hold a post-doctoral research position at a United States medical school, research institute, or academic institution.
• Minimum of 3 years and no more than 6 years of a post-doctoral fellowship by July 1, 2024.
• Research focused in the field of Neuroscience.
• Must be nominated by the dean of the medical school or equivalent institutional senior leader.
• Must include a nomination letter.
• Commitment of a minimum of 75% effort.
• 3 letters of recommendation.
• Budgets submitted in NIH G300 format.
Pre-Proposal Instructions:
Please submit:
1. A one-page letter of intent with a description of proposed aims and approach.
2. If the final application requires a diversity statement or statement of broader impacts, please summarize your plans to address the specific requirements on an additional page.
3. CV (not biosketch) of the PI.
4. A letter of support from the Dean or Chair that includes verification of the candidate’s start date. This letter of support signifies that the Dean or Chair have ensured that the nominee and application are likely to be of sufficient quality to be competitive nationally. Please be sure to address the funder’s stated selection criteria to limitedsubs@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Wednesday, August 16, 2023.
Proposals are due to the sponsor 11/1/2023, so you will need to have your materials in to the Office of Sponsored Programs by 10/23/2023 if given the go-ahead by the Limited Submissions review committee.