HSCI Announces the Sternlicht Director's Fund Awards for Graduate Students
Call for 2007 Nominations: Deadline Friday, September 7, 2007. For more information about the Sternlicht Director's Fund and diabetes research at Harvard, go to the HSCI Winter 2007 Newsletter.
With generous support from the Sternlicht Director's Fund, the Harvard
Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) announces the creation of the “Sternlicht
Awards for Graduate Students in Diabetes.”
Awards will be made to Harvard University GSAS students who are working
in the field of diabetes-related stem cell research. It is the purpose
of the Sternlicht Awards to support young investigators, specifically
graduate students, who are identified by their mentors as promising new
researchers. As much of the progress in the field of stem cell science
will be in the hands of today's graduate students under the leadership
of the senior faculty, the Sternlicht Director's Fund and the HSCI are
dedicated to the support of these researchers.
Faculty Sponsors must submit nominations for graduate students in their
labs whom they would like to be considered for a Sternlicht Award. Each
nomination should include a letter of recommendation from the
nominating Faculty Sponsor, biosketches for the candidate and sponsor,
and GSAS transcript. Faculty Sponsors should indicate in their
nomination letter the years of funding requested (two years maximum)
and the student's anticipated program completion date. Although
nominees must be registered Harvard GSAS students, nominees may be
working in a lab at any one of the Harvard-affiliated hospitals or
organizations.
Recipients will be selected through a competitive review process;
nominations will be reviewed by a Sternlicht Award review committee as
convened and chaired by Gordon Weir of the Joslin Diabetes Center.
Finalists will be presented to the HSCI Executive Committee for final
decision. Selection will be based on the nominee's promise as a
researcher in the fields of diabetes and stem cell science.
Awards will support tuition, fees, and stipend. HSCI expects to award
up to three Sternlicht Awards in 2007. Recipients will be expected to
attend an annual meeting with the donor of the fund to report on their
progress. Recipients will be made Affiliates of the Harvard Stem Cell
Institute and will also be expected to present their progress annually
to the HSCI Executive Committee.
Send complete nomination packets to be received by the September 7 deadline to:
Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Attn.: Sternlicht Awards
42 Church Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
For more information about the Sternlicht Director's Fund and diabetes research at Harvard, please visit www.hsci.harvard.edu/files/HSCI_Winter_07.pdf.
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