Program Summary:
The objective of The Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholars Program is to support new investigators of outstanding promise in the basic biological sciences relevant to understanding lifespan development processes and age-related diseases and disabilities. The award is intended to provide significant support to new investigators needed to permit them to become established in the field of aging. The New Scholars Program provides awards of up to $100,000 per year for a four year period for successful candidates. The Ellison Medical Foundation was established and is supported by Lawrence J. Ellison to support biomedical research (including basic biology, basic biomedicine and epidemiology) on aging.

Awards:
The New Scholars Program provides awards of up to $100,000 per year for a four year period for successful candidates.

Eligibility Criteria:
The University of Iowa may nominate two candidates to apply.

These awards are intended for investigators who are in the first three (3) years of their research career following their post-doctoral fellowship experience. For the 2012 competition, as of March 1, 2012, nominees must hold regular full time appointments (tenure or non-tenure) on the faculty of the sponsoring institution and they must not have been in such an appointment, at the sponsoring institution or other institution(s), for more than three years as of July 15, 2012, i.e. the appointment having been made no earlier than July 15, 2009. Time spent in clinical internships, post-doctoral training, residencies, or in work toward board certification does not count as part of the three-year limit.
The Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholars may hold one other career development award from a private source concurrently for up to one year. The limitation is with regard to overlap of funding type, even in the absence of scientific overlap. See "Restrictions" on the sponsor's website for a list of conflicting career development or new faculty awards.

Deadlines
Internal WINS deadline: Thursday, January 5, 2012
Sponsor deadline: Thursday, March 1, 2012

Application submission site: https://research.uiowa.edu/grantTrack/preselection.php?get=uiwins&GrantID=17564&Type=2

Additional application information is available at: http://www.ellisonfoundation.org/adsp.jsp?key=nsa_over&show=110