FOGARTY INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIST TRAINING
PROGRAM IN HIV/AIDS

Project Award Amount $25,000

Description of Grant Area
Funds for these training awards are offered to UCSF researchers through a collaboration between UCSF-GIVI Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) and UC, Berkeley's Fogarty International Center's AIDS International Training and Research Program (AITRP). This initiative seeks to enhance HIV/AIDS training opportunities (for individual scientists or training programs) from/in target countries with the goal of advancing international collaborations and funded research opportunities. Target countries included in the CFAR/UCB program are: Brazil, Thailand, India, China, and selected countries in Africa. Other countries will be considered.

Training activities should seek to support translational HIV/AIDS research bridging the interfaces between basic, clinical, and behavioral-epidemiological sciences as reflected in the research priorities represented by the CFAR mission.

All funds must be used for training activities, such as trainee stipends (cannot exceed NIH guidelines - see Fogarty International Training Awards application guidelines), tuition, travel, and training-related expenses (health insurance, scientific meetings, incidental research expenses, and support of training programs in a trainee's home country).

1. Award level is $25,000 in total costs
2. Total costs must include 8% indirect costs
3. The number of grants awarded is determined by funding available
4. Funding will last for a six-month to one-year period
5. Any carry forward of funding will require approval and must be fully justified
6. A progress report will be due to the CFAR Program office at the end of the project period (the report should reference subsequent funding acquired, research and/or training goals met, etc.).

For the most recent Fogarty International Training Awards description, download the Fogarty International Training Awards application guidelines. Additional information can be found on the CFAR website: http://cfar.ucsf.edu/awards

Note: As a general rule, within any category, priority is given to applicants who have never received funding in that category, except for the Fogarty International Training Awards in HIV/AIDS and International Mentored Scientist Award Program in HIV/AIDS.

Eligibility
A faculty member at UCSF or partner institute sponsoring a foreign trainee (in San Francisco or in-country) or executing an in-country training program.

Criteria for Review/Evaluation of Applications
Applications that are complete and meet eligibility requirements will be evaluated by an appropriate review committee convened by the UCSF Resource Allocation Program in accordance with the review criteria employed by the NIH which include five core areas: 1. Significance, 2. Approach, 3. Innovation, 4. Investigator, 5. Environment. Each of these criteria will be addressed and considered in assigning the overall score weighing them as appropriate for each application.

Contact:
Brenda Sanchez, CFAR Program Analyst
bsanchez@cfar.ucsf.edu
Tel. 415-221-4810 Ext. 3672

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