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ANNOUNCING A NEW DORIS DUKE GRANT COMPETITION - CALL FOR PRE-PROPOSALS - GRANTS AVAILABLE FOR UP TO $2.25 MILLION

Clinical Interfaces Award Program

Team Awards at the interface of the clinical and basic sciences. Research supported by this program must:
" foster new and collaborative ways of addressing complex problems of human health and disease;
" be conducted by teams that include key investigators from at least three disciplines as equal partners. One of these key investigators must be a clinical investigator; and
" be unique and only achievable through integration of a cross-disciplinary team of investigators.

Disciplines include: the biological, physical, chemical, social and population sciences, mathematics, computer sciences, and engineering. Proposals in all disease areas will be considered. Up to three full grants of up to $2.25 million will be awarded.

Pre-proposal deadline: November 2, 2004.

Award start date: October 1, 2005

Full details and instructions are available on the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's web site: http://www.ddcf.org/mrp/ciap