**Please see Announcement below and disseminate to your department**
SYNERGY Scholars
Mentored Career Development Program
Sponsor: Dartmouth SYNERGY
Center for Clinical and Translational Science
LETTER OF INTENT: April 15, 2013
APPLICATION DUE DATE: June 3, 2013 Application must be received no later than 5:00 pm.
AWARD START DATE: September 1, 2013
I. Background
Dartmouth SYNERGY Scholars is a Mentored Career Development Program, modeled on the NIH K12 Scholars Program. The program combines didactic training, mentoring, exposure to multidisciplinary research, and ongoing evaluation to prepare junior investigators for
careers in Clinical Translational Research (CTR). The SYNERGY Scholars Program Committee anticipates that two slots will become available as of September 1, 2013
The overall goal of the SYNERGY Scholars program is to develop future researchers and facilitate collaborative translational research studies within all our institutions and affiliated health centers. The Program Committee anticipates that providing funding for such studies will accelerate the process of translational and clinical research, thereby having a positive impact upon our overall clinical and translational research enterprise.
II. Award Provisions
Junior investigators will participate in an integrated didactic and mentored research program, similar to an individual K23/Clinical Research Career Development Award. This award will provide funds to cover 75% of the individual's salary, but no more than $100,000,
plus fringe benefits annually, as well as up to $25,000 per year to cover travel, supplies, research assistant salary, and tuition expenses.
III. Eligibility Criteria
Only applications from individuals with doctoral level degrees are accepted. Applicant must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident and must hold a doctoral or other terminal degree and a regular faculty appointment at Dartmouth College to be eligible
for this award.
An individual who has been approved for hire into a faculty role, but has not yet started as an employee at Dartmouth, is eligible as long as there is documentation to support the hire and an anticipated start date.
The applicant must be able to devote a minimum of two years to the SYNERGY Scholars program (see Section IV). Each applicant's department chair or supervisor must provide a supporting letter guaranteeing that the individual will have no more than 25% time committed to non-research (e.g., clinical) duties during the period of the award.
An individual who has served as a PI on a federally funded individual investigator award or as a PI on a program project grant is not eligible for this program.
Please see attached RFA for more details.