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Funding Details for Heart
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Cardiovascular/Cerebrovascular
American Heart Association
Type of Organization: Foundation
Email Address: apply@heart.org
Funds Available for Clinical Trials: ✗ Research: ✔
At the time of application, the applicant must hold an MD, PhD, DO, DVM, DDS, or equivalent post-baccalaureate doctoral degree.
Postdoctoral fellows are eligible to apply but must have attained faculty appointment by the time of award activation.
Investigators who have been awarded NIH K99/R00 or R01 grants are not eligible to apply.
The AHA will permit a Career Development Awardee to concurrently hold an NIH K award (other than K99/R00) if there is no budgetary overlap.
The awardee must devote at least 10% effort to the Career Development Award.
At the time of award activation:
An awardee must hold a faculty/staff position up to and including the rank of assistant professor (or equivalent).
No more than six years may have elapsed since the first faculty/staff appointment (after receipt of doctoral degree) at the assistant professor level or equivalent (including, but not limited to, instructor, research assistant professor, research scientist, staff scientist, etc.). If the candidate held the title of instructor during postdoctoral fellowship or residency years due to clinical or teaching responsibilities, that period of time does not count against the eligibility period for applying for the Career Development Award. The AHA will consider interruptions of work experience due to extenuating circumstances and clinical training.
The applicant must demonstrate that adequate time will be devoted to ensuring the successful completion of the project.
Requirements
Mentoring Team: The award requires, at a minimum, a primary mentor and a secondary mentor who will provide counsel and direction and scholarship oversight. Up to two additional mentors may be named to the mentoring team. A mentoring team approach with a committed lead mentor is an essential piece. Applicants should clearly define each person’s role as part of the mentoring team.
The primary and secondary mentors should have, most importantly, prior history of successfully mentoring early career investigators to independence, track records of high-quality investigation, academic accomplishment, and should be invested in the career progress of the early career scientist. The mentors’ primary function is to work with the applicant to develop the application and training plan, make necessary arrangements with the institution to conduct the proposed research work, enforce the appropriate timelines for accomplishing the work, and guide the awardee toward a productive career in his/her chosen field.
One individual must be identified as the primary mentor who will assist in the coordination of the candidate’s research. The primary mentor should be an active investigator in the area of the proposed research and be committed both to the applicant’s career development and the applicant’s research. The mentors must document the availability of dedicated sufficient research support (e.g., time and effort) and facilities for high-quality research.
At least one mentor must be from outside of the applicant’s department, division or institution.
One mentor should be committed to guiding the applicant’s future grant writing endeavors (such as, how to write an R01 or equivalent).
Please note: Only letters of support required from members of the mentoring team will be accepted. No other reference reports/letters are required or accepted.
Career Development Plan (3 pages maximum): The applicant is required to submit a comprehensive career development plan that includes:
Primary career intention – AHA does not require this to be a traditional academic research or health profession track. For example, an applicant might wish to pursue a career in industry, technology, teaching, or public health, etc.
ong-term professional goals (such as positions desired or other specific professional goals, such as ‘write a book’).
Explicit short-term goals that contribute to long-term interests and the most important anticipated challenges that must be mitigated/overcome to reach these goals.
Timeline and 2-3 metrics that will define success in reaching each goal.
Describe training or experiences you will develop to contribute to and ensure that long term goals are achieved.
Which aspects of your current work/job will be delegated to others in order to accomplish the early career training and tasks necessary to achieve your goals?
Identify additional skills, knowledge or experience you will need to acquire that may directly or indirectly help you in your current job or future positions, and how you plan to ensure that this occurs.
Specifically delineate when and how progress assessments/checkpoints will occur, particularly with each member of your mentoring team (e.g., memos, phone calls, meetings) and what developmental activities will be completed or discussed at these times.
Provide letters of support from each mentoring team member that indicate they understand their roles and commitment to you as the early career investigator.
Other info: This grant supports highly promising healthcare and academic professionals, in the early years of one’s first professional appointment, to explore innovative questions or pilot studies that will provide preliminary data and training necessary to assure the applicant’s future success as a research scientist.
American Heart Association
Type of Organization: Foundation
Email Address: apply@heart.org
Funds Available for Clinical Trials: ✗ Research: ✔
Funding Details
Requirements: EligibilityAt the time of application, the applicant must hold an MD, PhD, DO, DVM, DDS, or equivalent post-baccalaureate doctoral degree.
Postdoctoral fellows are eligible to apply but must have attained faculty appointment by the time of award activation.
Investigators who have been awarded NIH K99/R00 or R01 grants are not eligible to apply.
The AHA will permit a Career Development Awardee to concurrently hold an NIH K award (other than K99/R00) if there is no budgetary overlap.
The awardee must devote at least 10% effort to the Career Development Award.
At the time of award activation:
An awardee must hold a faculty/staff position up to and including the rank of assistant professor (or equivalent).
No more than six years may have elapsed since the first faculty/staff appointment (after receipt of doctoral degree) at the assistant professor level or equivalent (including, but not limited to, instructor, research assistant professor, research scientist, staff scientist, etc.). If the candidate held the title of instructor during postdoctoral fellowship or residency years due to clinical or teaching responsibilities, that period of time does not count against the eligibility period for applying for the Career Development Award. The AHA will consider interruptions of work experience due to extenuating circumstances and clinical training.
The applicant must demonstrate that adequate time will be devoted to ensuring the successful completion of the project.
Requirements
Mentoring Team: The award requires, at a minimum, a primary mentor and a secondary mentor who will provide counsel and direction and scholarship oversight. Up to two additional mentors may be named to the mentoring team. A mentoring team approach with a committed lead mentor is an essential piece. Applicants should clearly define each person’s role as part of the mentoring team.
The primary and secondary mentors should have, most importantly, prior history of successfully mentoring early career investigators to independence, track records of high-quality investigation, academic accomplishment, and should be invested in the career progress of the early career scientist. The mentors’ primary function is to work with the applicant to develop the application and training plan, make necessary arrangements with the institution to conduct the proposed research work, enforce the appropriate timelines for accomplishing the work, and guide the awardee toward a productive career in his/her chosen field.
One individual must be identified as the primary mentor who will assist in the coordination of the candidate’s research. The primary mentor should be an active investigator in the area of the proposed research and be committed both to the applicant’s career development and the applicant’s research. The mentors must document the availability of dedicated sufficient research support (e.g., time and effort) and facilities for high-quality research.
At least one mentor must be from outside of the applicant’s department, division or institution.
One mentor should be committed to guiding the applicant’s future grant writing endeavors (such as, how to write an R01 or equivalent).
Please note: Only letters of support required from members of the mentoring team will be accepted. No other reference reports/letters are required or accepted.
Career Development Plan (3 pages maximum): The applicant is required to submit a comprehensive career development plan that includes:
Primary career intention – AHA does not require this to be a traditional academic research or health profession track. For example, an applicant might wish to pursue a career in industry, technology, teaching, or public health, etc.
ong-term professional goals (such as positions desired or other specific professional goals, such as ‘write a book’).
Explicit short-term goals that contribute to long-term interests and the most important anticipated challenges that must be mitigated/overcome to reach these goals.
Timeline and 2-3 metrics that will define success in reaching each goal.
Describe training or experiences you will develop to contribute to and ensure that long term goals are achieved.
Which aspects of your current work/job will be delegated to others in order to accomplish the early career training and tasks necessary to achieve your goals?
Identify additional skills, knowledge or experience you will need to acquire that may directly or indirectly help you in your current job or future positions, and how you plan to ensure that this occurs.
Specifically delineate when and how progress assessments/checkpoints will occur, particularly with each member of your mentoring team (e.g., memos, phone calls, meetings) and what developmental activities will be completed or discussed at these times.
Provide letters of support from each mentoring team member that indicate they understand their roles and commitment to you as the early career investigator.
Other info: This grant supports highly promising healthcare and academic professionals, in the early years of one’s first professional appointment, to explore innovative questions or pilot studies that will provide preliminary data and training necessary to assure the applicant’s future success as a research scientist.