
Pharmacology/Toxicology Sabbatical Fellowships provide $40,000 for up to a year of sabbatical research. (Pictured: Foundation alumna Hannah Stoveken, University of Rochester Medical Center, 2014.)
KEY DETAILS
This award supports individuals engaged in a multidisciplinary research training program that will extend their credentials in pharmacology/toxicology, and enables faculty with active research programs to work outside of their institutions for a period of six months to one year to learn new skills or enhance their research.
Application deadline: September 1, 2019 @ 11:59 PM EDT.
Eligibility: Eligible applicants must 1) hold a PhD, Pharm.D, MD or Sc.D degree in a field of study logically or functionally related to the proposed post doctoral activities, 2) hold a faculty appointment that presents eligibility for sabbatical leave from their institution, 3) have institutional approval of a sabbatical plan that includes partial salary matching the PhRMA Foundation stipend, and 4) have an endorsement from a mentor who agrees to sponsor the applicant’s visiting scientist activity. All applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
Funding: $40,000 for a minimum of six months to a maximum of 12 months.
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Pharmacology/toxicology awards support career development activities of scientists embarking on research that integrates information on molecular or cellular mechanisms of action with information on the effects of an agent observed in an intact organism, in experimental animal or clinical studies or both.
Highest priority will be given to applicants whose research will attempt to integrate information on a drug or chemical’s mechanism of action at the molecular or cellular level with a drug’s effect in a human or laboratory animal. Applicants should describe the significance of a hypothesis being tested in the context of potential influences of biochemical, physiological, behavioral, or social systems.
These awards intend to encourage multidisciplinary training to apply the perspective of molecular, cell, and systems biology to pharmacology and toxicology research. Their scope includes basic drug action studies, detection of cellular responses to drugs at the gene level that create opportunities to optimize individualized drug therapy, and the corresponding evaluation of pharmaceuticals in human and clinical populations.
Eligibility & Requirements
- Eligible applicants must 1) hold a Ph.D., Pharm.D., M.D. or Sc.D. degree in a field of study logically or functionally related to the proposed post doctoral activities, 2) hold a faculty appointment that presents eligibility for sabbatical leave from their institution, 3) have institutional approval of a sabbatical plan that includes partial salary matching the PhRMA Foundation stipend, and 4) have an endorsement from a mentor who agrees to sponsor the applicant’s visiting scientist activity.
- Eligible candidates will have approval for sabbatical leave from their institution and a commitment from the research mentor who will host them at the visiting institution.
- The applicant and mentor of the program must describe how the multidisciplinary goals of the research experiential program will be accomplished, and provide assurance that key collaborating mentors endorse and are willing to support the plan.
- Matching funds must be provided by the institution.
- All applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
- This fellowship primarily encourages mid-career scientists to engage in a year-long experiential program that will refocus their core research on areas of emerging importance in health outcomes.
Awards may be activated beginning January 1, 2019, or on the first day of any month thereafter, up to and including December 1, 2019.
A stipend of $40,000, payable quarterly for a minimum of six months and a maximum of one year, will be provided.
The program provides no other subsidies (travel, tuition, fringe benefits, indirect institutional costs, etc.).
The award will be made to the institution on behalf of the fellow.