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A program of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award provides grants to junior physician-scientists to facilitate their transition to independent clinical research careers.

The foundation expects to award at least seventeen three-year grants in 2007 of $125,000 per year in direct costs and $10,000 per year in indirect costs to junior faculty level physician-scientists conducting clinical research in any disease area.

Each U.S.-accredited, degree-granting institution, which would encompass for that institution all affiliated graduate schools, related hospitals, and research institutes, may nominate up to three candidates in any disease area.

The foundation strongly encourages institutions to nominate women and under-represented minorities in medicine, including blacks or African Americans, Hispanics or Latinos, American Indians, Alaskan Natives, and Native Hawaiians.

Applicant must be a physician-scientist conducting clinical research in any disease area; have received an M.D. or a foreign equivalent from an accredited institution; be working in a U.S. degree-granting institution (but does not have to be a U.S. citizen); have a full-time faculty level position not higher than the assistant professor level; and have been appointed to their first full-time faculty level position between January 31, 2002, and January 31, 2007.

Visit the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Web site for the 2007 Clinical Scientist Development Award Request for Proposals containing complete competition details and application procedures.

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