Call for Applications: Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons Research Grant Program

Call for Applications: Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons Research Grant Program The deadline to submit is Monday, November 3rd, 2014 at 5:00 PM EST. Purposes & Guidelines The SAGES Research Awards are open to any principal investigator who is a SAGES member, including Candidate Members. SAGES would like to especially encourage grant funding to young investigators/candidate members in the hopes that funding through SAGES will lead to additional extramural funding.  Awards are conferred on a competitive basis by submission of a grant application, which is reviewed and evaluated by the SAGES Research Committee and approved by the Governing Board. Available Grants Grants are limited to no more than $30,000 each, for a period of one year, and are made to the principal investigator.  The purpose of these grants is to stimulate original research in gastrointestinal and endoscopic surgery.  The study may be either “bench” research or clinical.  In the spirit of supporting the goals of our membership, applicants are encouraged to review:  2014 Surgical Endoscopy- SAGES Research Priorities for a recent review of key research questions.  Part of the grant review process includes evaluation of the importance of the research question.  The review committee will incorporate these published rankings to determine the importance of submitted topics. In addition to the general grants, (2) FES ...
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