Call for AppliGrants for Early Medical/Surgical Specialists' Transition to Aging Research (GEMSSTAR)
The National Institute of Health (NIH) through the National Institute on Aging (NIA) will be accepting applications for the 2016 Grants for Early Medical/Surgical Subspecialists Transition to Aging Research (GEMSSTAR) awards program beginning September 7, 2015. GEMSSTAR awards program provides early career physicians up to $150,000 of direct funding (over a two-year period) to support aging research. Interested applicants have the option of submitting a Letter of Intent (LOI) prior to submitting their GEMSSTAR application to NIA. The deadline to submit an application is October 7, 2015.
The National Institute of Health (NIH) through the National Institute on Aging (NIA) will be accepting applications for the 2016 Grants for Early Medical/Surgical Subspecialists Transition to Aging Research (GEMSSTAR) awards program beginning September 7, 2015. GEMSSTAR awards program provides early career physicians up to $150,000 of direct funding (over a two-year period) to support aging research. Interested applicants have the option of submitting a Letter of Intent (LOI) prior to submitting their GEMSSTAR application to NIA. The deadline to submit an application is October 7, 2015.
The GEMSSTAR program is an outgrowth of and partnership with the Dennis W. Jahnigen Scholars program (which continues to offer matching funds to the GEMSSTAR program for surgical and related specialists) and the T. Franklin Williams Scholars program that has supported internal medicine subspecialists.
Read the full text of the GEMSSTAR award announcements here.