2010 Gina M. Finzi Memorial Student Summer Fellowship Program
LFA Announces the 2010 Gina M. Finzi Memorial Student Summer Fellowship Program
Applications are now being accepted for the 2010 Gina M. Finzi Memorial Student Summer Fellowship Program.
What You Need to Know
- Amount of award is $2,000
- Duration of award: Summer 2010
- Application deadline: March 5, 2010 at 5 p.m. Eastern
- Expected notification date: May 5, 2010
Download the application guidelines here. (PDF)
Online Application
Applicants are encouraged to register and complete a professional profile at proposalCENTRAL as soon as possible. Applicants should ensure that their grants and contracts office has registered their institutional, financial, and signing officials with proposalCENTRAL.
LFA uses an electronic grants submission process. All interested grant applicants must submit their full application packages through proposalCENTRAL: https://proposalcentral.altum.com/. A proposalCENTRAL helpline is available for questions from applicants Monday – Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m., EST. Customer support is available by phone at 800-875-2562 or by email at pcsupport@altum.com.
Purpose
The purpose of the Gina M. Finzi Memorial Student Summer Fellowship Program is to foster an interest, among students, in the areas of basic, clinical, translational, epidemiological, or behavioral research relevant to lupus under the sponsorship and supervision of an established, tenure-track Principal Investigator who directs a laboratory dedicated at least in part to the investigation of lupus at a U.S. academic, medical, or research institution.
Biomedical research on lupus has not kept pace with research efforts put forth to advance knowledge about and treatments for other chronic and life-threatening diseases. In addition, the FDA has not approved a drug for lupus in more than 50 years. The Gina M. Finzi Memorial Student Summer Fellowship Program is part of LFA’s ongoing efforts to advance the science and medicine of lupus and bring down the barriers that have impeded progress in lupus research.
History
The Gina M. Finzi Memorial Student Summer Fellowship Program is a memorial tribute to Gina M. Finzi, the late daughter of former LFA President Emeritus Sergio Finzi, Ph.D. Since 1984, the Gina M. Finzi Memorial Student Summer Fellowship Program has supported the work of nearly 200 young investigators.
Summer 2009 award recipients
Ian Kroll
The Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles
"Accelerated Atherosclerosis and Pro-Inflammatory HDL in SLE-prone Mice"
Sean Lavine
New York University School of Medicine
"Cyclooxygenase 2 and Injury in Neonatal Lupus"
Xi Leon Zhao
Winifred Masterson Burke Medical Research Institute
"Putative Mechanism of NP-SLE: Toxicity of Anti-DNA Anti-NMDAR Antibody"
Maggie Bromberg
Duke University Medical Center
"Psychological and Disease Related Predictors of Sleep in Pediatric SLE"
Tarak Trivedi
The University of Chicago
"Analysis of SLE Clinical Characteristics using SLE Susceptibility Genes"
Related Information
Read the LFA press release on the 2010 Gina M. Finzi Memorial Student Summer Fellowship Program
Past Recipients of the Gina Finzi Memorial Student Summer Fellowship Program
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