Opportunity Type: Education and Career Development
Goal: The Early Career Investigator Grants (ECIG) address training needs in rare disease research by providing specialized education in the complexities of clinical research in the neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCLs). Funding support is provided for a research project and career development activities over one year.
Sponsor: Batten Disease Clinical Research Consortium (BDCRC) Patient Advocacy Groups (Batten Disease Support & Research Association (BDSRA) | Our Promise to Nicholas Foundation) | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) | National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) | Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Eligibility Criteria: Eligible candidates must be actively affiliated with a US-based academic health care institution; they must be within five years of completing their terminal clinically oriented training; and they must have a doctoral degree in medicine, psychology, nursing, genetics/genetic counseling, occupational or physical therapy, or speech language pathology; others licensed to practice clinically may also be eligible. Candidates from non-clinical disciplines will only be considered if proposing a career development plan integrated with their institution’s clinical team focused on the NCLs. In addition to faculty, strong post-doctoral or clinical fellows may be considered as long as at least 3 calendar months are dedicated to the activities of the program. Candidates who propose animal studies will not be considered. Applicants are required to have a local primary mentor and are encouraged to establish a mentoring team.