Albany Medical Center Prize

The Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research was created to provide recognition to an individual or group of physicians or biomedical scientists whose work has led to significant advances in the fields of healthcare and scientific research with demonstrated translational benefits applied to improved patient care. This prize of $500,000 is the largest prize in medicine in the United States. Further information on this program, including application instructions, can be found at: http://www.amc.edu. The application deadline is January 15, 2003.

Sandler Program for Asthma Research

The Sandler Program for Asthma Research (SPAR) announces their Senior and Junior Investigator Awards intended to develop important new pathways of investigation in basic research regarding asthma. SPAR encourages applications from outstanding investigators outside the field of asthma. Many of their past awardees are internationally renowned experts in basic immunology, virology, pathology, genetics, cell biology, signaling, molecular pharmacology, etc. Investigators from within the field are also eligible for awards provided that the proposed work represents a major departure from their current and past research. Because this group’s mission is to develop important new pathways of investigation in basic research regarding asthma, they are looking for truly novel ideas with breakthrough potential, and accept that this approach may entail substantial risk and very limited preliminary data.

Award Levels: Senior Investigator Awards are $250,000 per year for three years. Junior Investigator Awards are $125,000 per year for three years. Junior Investigator Awards are intended for investigators who have already established an independent research program, and who have demonstrated exceptional early accomplishment permitting the expansion of their work to the field of asthma.

Eligibility: Please refer to the SPAR Web site for details on applicant criteria, the nature of work to be supported, and application instructions (see http://www.sandlerresearch.org ). The application deadline is February 14, 2003 with funding beginning July 1, 2003.

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