Four HMS faculty members have recently received grants through the HMS Foundation Funds program, which serves as a clearinghouse for grants that require an institution to nominate candidates, as opposed to candidates applying initially to the granting organizations. All three HMS candidates nominated for the Doris Duke Foundation Clinical Scientist Development Award, which supports junior physician–scientists as they transition to their own labs, received funding. The recipients are Clark Chen, HMS assistant professor of surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; John Michael McWilliams, HMS assistant professor of health care policy and of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital; and Sallie Permar, HMS instructor in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Boston. Each will receive $150,000 per year for three years.
Zoltan Arany, HMS assistant professor of medicine at BID, has been selected as a New Scholar in Aging by the Ellison Medical Foundation. New Scholar awards provide support for newly independent investigators beginning in the first three years after their postdoctoral training, allowing them to staff their laboratories, collect preliminary data and organize research programs of sufficient momentum to obtain ongoing support from other sources. The New Scholar award provides $100,000 per year for a four-year period.
