Greenwall Bioethics awards

Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics Posted: 17 Jul 2013 10:30 AM PDT Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics The Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics is a career development award to enable junior faculty members to carry out innovative bioethics research. Each year three Greenwall Faculty Scholars are selected to receive 50 percent salary support for three years to enable them to develop their research program. The Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics supports research that goes beyond current work in bioethics to help resolve pressing ethical issues in clinical care, biomedical research, and public policy. Scholars and Alumni/ae attend twice-yearly meetings, where they present their work in progress, receive feedback and mentoring from the Faculty Scholars Program Committee and other Scholars, and have the opportunity to develop collaborations with other researchers. The ongoing involvement of Alumni/ae with the Program provides them ongoing opportunities for professional development and feedback and and engages them in mentoring of younger Scholars. The Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program creates a community that enhances future bioethics research by Scholars and Alumni/ae. The Faculty Scholars Program Committee provides oversight and direction for the program and is involved not only with selection of the Scholars but with mentoring and faculty development activities. Selection Criteria The goal of the Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics is to nurture the next generation of leading bioethics researchers at a crucial stage in their academic careers, when they have started a tenure-track faculty appointment, need protected time to establish a long-term, sustainable research program, and would benefit from mentoring from senior bioethics scholars and joining a community of other bioethics researchers. Applicants must be junior faculty members holding at least a 60% appointment in a tenure series at a university or non-profit research institute in the U.S. Priority will be given to applicants who have not yet been considered for tenure, who have not received a comparable career development award, and whose work will have an impact on public policy, biomedical research, or clinical practice. Faculty Scholars will be selected on the basis of their achievements, the strength of their research project, their commitment to the field of bioethics, and support from their home institution. While the amount and quality of an applicant's research in bioethics will count favorably towards his/her application, outstanding candidates with less direct experience in bioethics will also be considered. Within this group, priority will be given to applicants whose research addresses innovative and emerging topics. Lower priority will be given to applicants who are primarily carrying out institutional change, educational reform, or theoretical bioethics research. Only one applicant from a university will be considered. Institutions are requested to have an internal screening and selection process. A university with a law school, medical school, several teaching hospitals, and a faculty of arts and sciences, for example, may nominate only one applicant. Funding for Greenwall Faculty Scholars The award supports 50% of a Scholar’s salary plus benefits for three years, up to the NIH cap, with 10% institutional costs for the salary and benefits. In addition, we provide $5000 each year for limited project support and travel (no indirect costs are provided for these items). About the Preliminary Application Applicants must write a three-page letter of intent that includes • A cover page including the project title and the applicant's contact information • A description of the research proposal, particularly its significance • How the research will be carried out and how it is likely to have an impact on public policy or clinical practice • A personal statement describing the applicant's goals in the field of bioethics • A curriculum vitae, no longer than 5 single-spaced pages Preliminary applications should be submitted electronically. This letter should be double-spaced and in type no smaller than 12-point. Please send the required materials with the letter of intent described above first and the curriculum vitae second. The subject line of the email should contain the applicant's full name. Files should be sent as PDF (.pdf) files to ensure that application formatting is not lost. Application Process A letter of intent is due by November 1, 2013. Approximately 12 applicants will then be invited to submit a full application. Letters of intent should be sent as file attachments to admin@greenwall.org. Questions and Concerns Questions should be directed to Bernard Lo, MD, Greenwall Foundation President, or Chelsea Ott, Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program Coordinator. Funding Opportunity: Greenwall Foundation Making a Difference in Real-World Bioethics Dilemmas Program Posted: 17 Jul 2013 10:18 AM PDT Funding Opportunity: Greenwall Foundation Making a Difference in Real-World Bioethics Dilemmas Program The Greenwall Foundation will fund a new bioethics grants program, Making a Difference in Real-World Bioethics Dilemmas to support research to help resolve an important emerging or unanswered bioethics problem in clinical care, biomedical research, public health practice, or public policy. We hope these grants will have a real-world, practical impact. These grants will be of modest size and short duration; one-year grants of up to $60,000 will receive priority. However, we might also consider a few larger or longer projects of exceptional merit. Two types of bioethics grants will be funded: Mentored research projects. Awards to a senior bioethics researcher to carry out a mentored bioethics research project with a post-doctoral fellow or junior faculty member. The close mentoring will help ensure that the project is completed within this time frame. The Foundation will provide salary support for the effort of the mentor on the project. Projects where the mentee already has salary support will receive priority. Proposals in which the mentee has other responsibilities that compete with carrying out such a research project, such as courses for a degree program and resident physicians, will be considered only in exceptional circumstances. Senior collaboration projects. Grants to allow innovative biomedical or clinical researchers or leaders of health care organizations or government agencies to partner with an established bioethics scholar to carry out research on the intersection of their primary work with bioethics. For example, a leading researcher in an innovative biomedical field could bring deep knowledge of that field to help analyze important unresolved bioethics problems in it. As another example, a physician-leader in a safety-net hospital or a public health agency could analyze ethical problems she or he had encountered and struggled with. Both collaborating senior scholars are eligible for salary support. We expect grantees to disseminate their research through practical articles in one or more peer-reviewed journals that reach the appropriate audience for the topic studied, and through presentations in relevant national and international professional meetings. Examples of the kinds of real-life bioethics problems grantees might address include: • Dilemmas raised by innovative biomedical research and new communication technologies. • Dilemmas from major changes in the delivery of U.S. health care resulting from the Affordable Care and Patient Protection Acts and private initiatives. • Dilemmas that are particularly salient -- and particularly ripe for analysis -- in certain cultural and ethnic communities, although they also involve people across the population. In evaluating proposals the Foundation will consider: • The importance of the bioethics problem to be studied • The innovative nature of the project's approach • The professional background of the proposed collaborators, and their close, working familiarity with the practical bioethics problems to be addressed • The likelihood the project will have a constructive real-world impact • The previous success of the principal investigator in mentoring younger researchers or collaborating with senior researchers or leaders outside of bioethics • The success of the investigators publishing practical bioethics articles in top-tier journals with a broad audience. • The reasonableness of the budget. While we will give strong preference to proposals that meet these criteria, we will also consider exceptional proposals that meet our strategic goal of supporting bioethics research that will have a real-world impact. More than one applicant may apply from each institution. Projects with the following characteristics will not be funded: • Projects that implement or make incremental improvements in established approaches to bioethics problems, build institutional infrastructure, or provide bioethics education, training or course work. • Projects that simply describe or analyze bioethics issues or provide a conceptual framework, without making practical recommendations for resolving the issues. However, projects that present normative recommendations that are based on previous empirical research are encouraged. The Greenwall Foundation awards grants only to tax-exempt institutions in the U.S. Proposals from unaffiliated individuals and from institutions outside the U.S. cannot be funded. Application Process Monday, August 19, 2013 – Deadline for email inquiry. We encourage applicants with projects already in development to submit their inquiries as soon as possible, as The Foundation will respond to applicants on a rolling basis. This enables The Foundation to respond quicker, allowing you additional time for the application and sufficient time to release approved grant funds to successful applicants before the conclusion of the year. Please send a 400-600 word e-mail of inquiry describing: • the bioethics problem to be addressed • how the proposed project is innovative and goes beyond the current work on the problem • names of the proposed research team. Please attach copies of CV's (no more than 3 pages each, highlighting publications relevant to the this application) of the two main investigators (or mentee and mentor). • the amount and duration of funding requested. Selected applicants will be encouraged to submit a full application. Some applicants will receive feedback on issues to be specifically addressed or clarified. Please direct all inquiries to applications@greenwall.org. Friday, September 20, 2013 – Deadline for full applications, by invitation only. In six single-spaced pages, please describe: • the bioethics problem to be addressed and its significance • the methods / approach / conceptual framework to be employed. If the proposal is to analyze a bioethics problem, describe key ideas in your analysis. Reviewers will give particular attention to whether the applicants are thinking about the problem they propose to study in an innovative and rigorous manner • how the proposed project is innovative and goes beyond the current work on the problem • why the results of the project are likely to have a real-world impact • names of the proposed research team. Please attach copies of CV's (no more than 3 pages each, highlighting publications relevant to the this application) of the two main investigators (or mentee and mentor). • the amount and duration of funding requested. • Attach a peer-reviewed publication that best illustrates the team's ability to carry out a mentored or collaborative bioethics project. Monday, October 7, 2013 - After the first stage of review, the most competitive applications will be asked to submit a formal proposal through their Contracts and Grants office, including a budget and budget justification and current IRS determination letter. Wednesday, November 6, 2013 - Announcement of awards, with funding to be sent to grantee institutions before the end of 2013, if possible. We will fund another cycle of grants in Spring 2014. The deadline to submit email inquiries to applications@greenwall.org for the next cycle will be Tuesday, January 14, 2014.