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Marianne J. Legato Research Scholar Awards In Gender-Specific Medicine

The Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine and the Department of Medicine are pleased to announce the inaugural Marianne J. Legato Research Scholar Awards in Gender-Specific Medicine.

Two awards will be made, each for $60,000 per year for two years, both directed towards junior faculty (those with appointments as either Instructors or Assistant Professors) in the Department of Medicine. The program also allows for a third year of support if very significant progress can be demonstrated as the result of the first two years of funding.  This award, the "Established Investigator in Gender Specific Medicine", will provide $100,000.

Gender-specific medicine is the science of the differences between males and females, not an isolated study of females or women’s health, and its research encompasses all levels of investigation from basic bench research with cultured cells to clinical/epidemiological studies. The research proposed for support by the Marianne J. Legato Research Scholar Awards must have gender-specific hypotheses and aims that are distinct from currently funded studies.  All areas of investigation are eligible:  basic, translational, clinical, epidemiological, or outcomes research. 

Those grant proposals in the area of clinical or epidemiological research should include appropriate numbers of both sexes.  Some areas of particular interest include the impact of biological sex on gene expression; the mechanisms of the impact of experience/environment on male-female phenotype differences; and studies involving synthetic biology - i.e., applying concepts of engineering to biological systems through medicinal chemistry, genetic engineering, and other bioengineering approaches.

Recipients of NIH career development (K) awards or other junior investigator funding are eligible.  A committee of senior faculty in the Department of Medicine will review the applications. Recipients will be announced in winter 2011 and the awards ceremony will occur at the Partnership Gala on May 4, 2011 in New York City.

The application, as described below, should be sent by e-mail as one attached file (in pdf format) to Dr. Jaime S. Rubin, Director for Research Development, Department of Medicine. Please include "Legato Research Scholar Awards" in the Subject line of your e-mail.

1. Cover page with applicant's (A) Name; (B) Title; (C) Division in the Dept of Medicine; (D) Contact information [e-mail address and telephone number]; and (E) Title of proposed research project.

2. Research proposal (3-pages maximum, including figures; literature cited on following page). Proposal should follow the NIH format: (A) Specific Aims, (B) Significance, (C) Innovation, and (D) Approach.  Include discussion of statistical approach and analyses.  Preliminary Studies/Pilot Data are not a requirement

3. NIH biosketch (include all peer-reviewed publications; 4-pages maximum)

Deadline: February 15, 2011

Please contact Dr. Rubin, jsr9@columbia.edu, 342-3184, if there are any questions.