ISHLT GRANTS AND AWARDS PROGRAMThe deadline for submitting the 2009 Research Fellowship Award Application was February 2, 2009.
To view the application, please click HERE.ISHLT issues up to three Research Fellowship Awards annually. Each award is in the amount of $40,000. The funding period is for one year.
- The applicant or the applicant's chief of staff/research project director must be a member of the ISHLT in good standing at the time of application and throughout the period of funding.
- The applicant must be in a clinical or post-doctoral training program and not yet have attained Board certification/accreditation/faculty level appointment (Assistant Professor equivalent or above)/salaried senior staff position (or equivalent) during the period of the award.
- Research must begin between April 1 and December 31, 2009.
- The results of funded research must be submitted in one of the following formats within two years of the initial date of funding:
- as a manuscript to the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
- as an abstract for the ISHLT Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions
- as a report for publication in the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
- The results of funded research cannot have been previously published or presented prior to publication in the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation or presentation at the ISHLT Annual Meeting.
- ISHLT must be acknowledged as a funding source in all manuscripts and presentations derived from the funded research via the following statement, "This work was supported by a research award from the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation." Copies of these publications must be submitted to the ISHLT Headquarters office.
- Funding will be awarded in two portions. 50% of the funding will be provided initially, with the remaining 50% provided upon submission of a satisfactory progress report to the Awards Committee 6 months after the date of initial funding. The second installment of funding will not be made if the research is no longer being conducted at the original institution.
- The award recipient and the award recipient's institution agree that the funds will be expended for the purpose(s) described in the application, that there is no duplicate funding for these purposes, and that no portion of the award will be used to pay for indirect costs or institutional overhead.
- The award recipient or his/her research project director must be present at the Awards Session at the ISHLT Annual Meeting to receive acknowledgment of the award.
- The completed application form must be submitted accompanied by the following attachments:
- a curriculum vitae and bibliography
- a description of the project which will be undertaken during the year of support. This description should be organized into four parts and must not exceed five single-spaced, typewritten pages, including reference figures:
- brief summary/overview describing the nature and duration of the proposed project
- project goals
- methods
- significance
- a letter of recommendation from the Chief of Staff of your current institution of training
- a letter of recommendation form the Director of the research project at the proposed institution of study, if different than the Chief of Staff at your current institution
- a brief description, written by the Director of the research project, of the facilities and resources available and of the overall training program, including the number and nature of trainees in this research program and the percentage of time the applicant will spend in non-research related activities
- a budget detailing the anticipated expenses for the year of funding, the amount of support requested for each line of the budget, and all additional sources of funding. The award may be used for any portion of the budget, except that it may not be used to pay for indirect costs/institutional overhead.
- An original and 12 copies of the application and all attachments must be submitted by the applicant to the Awards Committee for receipt no later than February 2, 2009.
