Call for Applications: American Society of Transplantation Basic Science Faculty Development Grant

Call for Applications: American Society of Transplantation Basic Science Faculty Development Grant Applications must be submitted by Monday, September 15, 2014. The funding of any grant and total number of grants awarded by the AST is dependent on budgetary constraints in a given year. 2015 Basic Science Research Priorities The AST has identified the following basic science research priorities for 2015, and encourages investigators working within these areas to apply for funding by the AST: Develop and validate biomarkers of graft dysfunction and immune activation Validate animal modeling as relevant to current clinical challenges (donor injury, autoimmunuity, infectious disease, immunological memory) that validate specific mechanisms or therapies Identify and study novel immune modifiers (i.e. cellular transplants including stem cells, new drugs and biologicas) Pursue systems biology approaches to study the impact of therapeutics on molecular pathways that reveal new mechanistic insights (note: purely descriptive profiling and mapping of molecular pathways by any set of technologies is not responsive to this area) Develop new tools to study and/or visualize the human immune response This is a one- or two-year $50,000/year grant for Junior Faculty. The goal of the AST Basic Science Faculty Development Grant is to promote the careers of young independent investigators within the first five years of their first faculty appointment (see Eligib...
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