Opportunity
Distinguished Scientist Award
Award Info:
The award provides $600,000 in funding over a four-year period. Over that time, recipients also receive additional support from the Foundation through its vast network of scientists in the field primarily through the Foundation's annual Scientific Retreat.
The funding period for 2020 grants will begin on or about October 15, 2020 and end on September 30, 2024.
Description:
The Distinguished Scientist Award (DSA) seeks to provide career and research support to early career scientists who demonstrate outstanding promise for making scientific and medical breakthroughs in the field of brain cancer research.
Recipients of the award are inspired individuals with projects that show potential to generate new knowledge relating to causes, cure or treatment of primary brain tumors/brain cancer. Applicants are carefully considered and selected by The Sontag Foundation and its independent Scientific Advisory Board based on the scientific merit of the proposed project, career trajectory, peer and mentor references and an onsite research facility visit. In determining the overall scientific merit of an application, the Scientific Advisory Board scores applications based on the NIH review criteria of: significance, investigator, innovation, approach, and environment.
- Applicants must hold a doctoral degree in a discipline which can be brought to bear on the intractable disease, brain cancer.
- Applicants must have received their first independent faculty appointment no earlier than March 1, 2015 and no later than January 1, 2020 at a tax-exempt academic, research, or medical institution within the United States or an equivalent institution in Canada.
- If the institution grants tenure, the qualifying appointment must be on the tenure track.
- Research proposal submitted for funding must be a primary focus of applicant.
- Applicant's career track and proposed research should demonstrate potential to generate new knowledge relating to causes, cure or treatment of primary brain tumors/brain cancer.
- More than one individual from the same institution may apply for this award.
- Applicants who applied in 2018 may apply with a different research project in the 2020 grant application cycle.