Second year funding is available based on acceptable progress. Ph.D. and have completed between one and four years of independent research. U.S. investigators and their foreign collaborators to conduct AIDS research mainly at the foreign site. U.S. investigators holding active NIH AIDS research grants are eligible to apply. Grants are intended to prepare students for entry into graduate programs leading to the Ph.D. in a biomedical science.
Grants cover tuition, fees, stipends for trainees, and release time for MARC faculty.
Applicants must define goals and specific measurable objectives of their plan to train students. Active participation by faculty in engineering is particularly encouraged, as are mechanisms to give students experience in the biotechnology industry. Supports efforts to understand and transform the culture and experience of dying though scholarship, the humanities and the arts and to foster innovations in provision of care, public and professional education, and public policy. Project encourages individuals in literary, media, fine and performing arts to use creativity to deepen understanding of suffering, dying and bereavement. Projects need institutional support and potential for integration into existing structures.