amfAR Research Grants

-
Request for Proposals: Funding to support research by scientists outside the field of HIV that explores the potential for HIV eradication.
Total Cost Maximum: $1,000,000
Performance Period: 4 years (January 1, 2016 – December 31, 2019)
LOI Deadline: August 13, 2015, 3:00 PM EDT
Request application portal credentials: no later than 3:00 PM, August 10, 2015 (click here for request form)
BACKGROUND
amfAR has established a new funding mechanism known as Investment Grants to bring scientists outside the field of HIV/SIV to lend their experience and vision to curing HIV. Proposals must include collaboration with a scientist having a record of publications in the HIV field. Priority will be given to projects with the potential to improve upon current HIV cure strategies or identify undescribed challenges.
Eligibility
Principal investigator:
  • Must hold a doctoral-level degree
  • Must hold a faculty-level position at a nonprofit research institution
  • Must have verifiable competencies outside the field of HIV
  • Must collaborate with an experienced HIV cure research scientist
Please forward this announcement to colleagues who may be interested in and qualified to apply for this funding opportunity.
amfAR grants are made to nonprofit organizations worldwide. Applicant investigators need not be U.S. citizens, and there are no restrictions as to age, color, creed, gender, medical condition, handicap, national origin, parental status, political affiliation, race, religion, marital status, or sexual orientation.
Please forward this announcement to colleagues who may be interested in and qualified to apply for this funding opportunity.


Privacy Statement
amfAR does not share or sell e-mail addresses. 
Copyright 2015 | amfAR, 120 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005 | www.amfar.org

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A requiem for Nigeria healthcare.

-
Dear friends...may i welcome you to this new year..it is my prayer that we shall do more celebrating than complaining. May this year be the year that we start getting things right in this country...may it be a year the FMOH takes the health of nigerians first...not a year of many conferences with little outcome but a year that doctors actually do their work and not go on strikes. a year the fmoh keeps to agreements reached.a year the cmds do right by their staff and dont embezzle hosp funds...may this be a year that the people of nigeria listen to the cry of the doctors and not wash it down as their usual call for pay rise...in as much as a worker deserves his wages, the health system is collapsed and the requiem is about to be conducted.....let me leave today with this piece from Dr Daniel Gbujie. in the coming days we will talk more on the process that led to this requiem. .Going by the current value rate of a Dollar to Naira. Rate it is available today 5th/1/2017 is btw N485 a
Read more

FMC OWERRI CRISIS: NLC AND HER SISTER UNIONS CANNOT BE JUDGE IN THEIR OWN CASE!

-
Image
It is no longer news that Nigeria Labour Congress( NLC) and the Trade Union Congress(TUC), have given the federal government a  21-day ultimatum to reverse the reinstatement of the embattled medical director ( MD) of the Federal Medical Centre( FMC ) Owerri,Dr (Mrs) Angela Uwakwem . I want to notify Nigerians that it is only the members of Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) in FMC Owerri that are opposing the reinstatement of the MD and that the national president,Mr Ayubba Wabba, of one of the two  factions of the NLC that gave that ultimatum is a member of JOHESU. It was the same JOHESU members that raise a false alarm against the MD when she blocked the loopholes through which they embezzle hospitals funds . I want Nigerians to ask the members of JOHESU why they do not want the reinstatement of the embattled MD. A cursory look at FMC Owerri will show that the presence of the embattled MD is a threat to some unscrupulous workers who live above their incomes . She i
Read more