External Deadline: January 2024 Internal Deadline: November 2023
Instructions for electronic submission: To apply for the Mallinckrodt Scholar Awards, please submit the materials requested below to this link no later than Monday, November 6, 2023, at 11:59 PM.
Budget: $125,000 per year for 4 years; no IDCs
Number of Applications: 2 applications from Cornell (including Ithaca)
Program Description:
The mission of the Foundation is to support early stage investigators engaged in basic biomedical research that has the potential to significantly advance the understanding, diagnosis, or treatment of disease. The funds are designed to provide faculty members with support to move the project forward to the point where other independent funding (R01 or similar) can be obtained.
30 US‐based institutions are invited to submit two candidates. The institutions are selected by the Mallinckrodt Board based on their history of quality grant applications and award selection. From these nominations, four are chosen for interviews with the Foundation’s Trustees in St Louis, and one to two are selected to be the Mallinckrodt Scholar.
The Edward Mallinckrodt Foundation (EMF) Board selection process is shepherded by Trustees with medical and scientific background. The EMF is very interested in the selection process that results in an investigator's sponsorship for a Mallinckrodt Scholar Award. The review committee examines closely the support the institution will provide and the promise the institution sees for their proposed investigators' submissions.
See the Foundation website for details.
Eligibility
- M.D. and/or Ph.D. investigators who are between their 5th-8th year of a tenure-track position
- Tenured faculty, as long as they fall within the window of 5 to 8 years from starting their positions, are eligible to apply
- Candidates may have an R01
Application Requirements
Cornell is limited to submitting 2 nominees. Due to this limitation an internal selection process will be coordinated. Chairpersons/Division Heads may submit no more than two nominations from their department/division. Note: Chairs/Division Heads submitting more than one nomination must comment on the relative strengths and weaknesses of the two nominees. The same comment should be repeated in both nomination letters. Margins should be at least one inch and font size no less than 11 point.
- Letter of nomination form the candidate’s Department Chair/Division Head (1-2 pages). Please also include a confirmation if candidate holds a tenure-track or equivalent position.
- One-page lay summary
- Research plan describing the scope and significance of the proposed research (2 pages). Proposals must contain an adequately detailed description of the project to be clearly understandable by the scientific members of the Trustees including non-scientist members. The research plan does not need to be in the detail requested by the NIH for R01 grants. References and/or figures are in addition to the 2 pages.
- NIH Biosketch (5-page limit). Include Other Support section.
- Budget outline with a breakdown as to how the funds will be used
Submit the items listed above here no later than Monday, November 6, 2023, at 11:59 PM in the order listed as one PDF document using the naming convention PI last name-first initial_EMJFScholars2024.pdf (see example below).
Example: Smith-J_ EMJFScholars2024.pdf
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Anesthesiology
- Basic Science
- Biochemistry/Biophysics
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular
- Community Health
- COVID-19/SARS-CoV2
- Dermatology
- Diabetes
- Drug Development
- Endocrinology
- Genetics
- GI
- Healthcare Policy
- Hematology
- Hepatology
- HIV
- Immunology
- Medical Education Research
- Medicine
- Microbiology
- Molecular Biology/Cell Biology
- Nephrology
- Neuroscience
- Nursing/PA/Allied Professions
- Obstetrics/Gynecology
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopedic
- Pathology
- Pediatrics
- Pharmacology
- Physiology
- Precision Medicine
- Psychiatry
- Psychology/Behavioral Science
- Pulmonology
- Radiology
- Regeneration
- Surgery
- Urology
- Faculty
- Junior Faculty