Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Fellowship Award

Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Fellowship Award Completed applications for the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Fellowship Award must be received by March 7, 2014 for the award cycle that begins on July 1, 2014. Goals: The goal of the Fellowship Awards is to help increase the pool of highly trained pediatric infectious disease clinical scientists and to stimulate scholarly basic and clinical research in the following areas pertinent to pediatrics: public health/epidemiology, hospital epidemiology, clinical trials of antimicrobials, outcomes research, pharmacokinetics, pathophysiology, molecular pathogenesis, research related to vaccine development, and other topics of relevance to pediatric infectious diseases. NOTE: The Society encourages applications for clinically applied/translational research. Eligibility: Candidates must possess a MD or MD/PhD and be at least a first-year fellow in a Pediatric Infectious Diseases program in North America at the time of application. The award will be given for two subsequent years of training, during which time the applicant is expected to devote the major portion (at least 75% of time) of those years conducting the proposed research project under the direct supervision of a mentor who must be a PIDS member in good standing for at least one year. Support: The annual stipend will be $45,000 and will be given for two years, subject to review at the end of the first year. In the case of awards given to a cand...
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