Funding Announcements
Aging Research and Early Career Physician Professional Development
Aging Research
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) will be accepting applications for the 2013 Grants for Early Medical and Surgical Subspecialists Transition to Aging Research (GEMSSTAR) awards program beginning September 1, 2012. GEMSSTAR awards program provides early career physicians up to $100,000 of direct funding (over a two-year period) to support aging research. Interested applicants have the option of submitting a Letter of Intent (LOI) prior to submitting their GEMSSTAR application to NIA. The deadline to submit an application is October 1, 2012. Read the full text of the GEMSSTAR award announcements below. The NIA announcement includes a helpful list of responses to questions that are frequently asked about the GEMSSTAR program.
To receive a GEMSSTAR award, early career physicians must secure a supplemental professional development plan (PDP) award. The T. Franklin Williams Scholars Program is one source of professional development support available to applicants.
Professional Development
The T. Franklin Williams Scholars program provides GEMSSTAR award recipients, over a two-year period, up to $50,000 in direct professional development funding and up to $3,000 in travel support to the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) annual meeting. Funded through a generous grant from the Atlantic Philanthropies and the John A. Hartford Foundation, the T. Franklin Williams Scholars program is a joint initiative of ASP and the seven internal medicine subspecialty sponsor societies. A Letter of Intent is submitted to the American Society of Specialty Professors (ASP) and the sponsor society that is most relevant to your research; the award application is submitted to the sponsor society.
Contact the T. Franklin Williams Scholar grants manager at the sponsor society that is most relevant to your research to receive information specific to the sponsor society’s application process. For general information regarding the T. Franklin Williams Scholars Program, contact Kelly Middleton, Grants Coordinator, at kmiddleton@im.org or (703) 341-4540.