Committee on Special Awards

The Dean’s Committee on Special Awards (CoSA) is responsible for the dissemination, solicitation and selection of proposals for limited submission funding opportunities and awards for which new investigators, newly recruited faculty, postdoctoral fellows and senior faculty are eligible.

CoSA is composed of senior faculty who have the appropriate scientific expertise for critically evaluating research applications to determine the candidates who most likely will compete successfully for awards. In addition, CoSA  has ad hoc subcommittees for Neuroscience (Eric Nestler, MD, PhD) and Cancer (Ramon Parsons, MD, PhD). CoSA assists faculty in the preparation of applications and letters of support required from the Dean. In addition, CoSA helps facilitate processing and submitting the application to the award sponsor.

Opportunities are posted through several email lists. To subscribe to the CoSA listservs,Select Research Services & Resources.

Current Opportunities

Email announcements to the Mount Sinai community of the limited submission opportunities are accompanied by the request for pre-proposal versions of applications whose deadline is usually 6 weeks prior to the funding agency’s deadline. The pre-proposals are then evaluated by CoSA. Based on the resultant ranking, the committee recommends applications to the Dean for his approval. In addition to ranking the candidates, feedback for improvement of their applications is given to all candidates. All applicants are notified of the outcome and provided reviewer comments, if any, on their applications.

If you have reason to believe a funding opportunity you are interested in is limited, and you do not see it on this list, please contact Cosa@mssm.edu 

Sponsor

Name of Award

Eligibility

Restrictions

AAMC

Nickens Minority Faculty Fellowship

Assistant professor - help achieve institutional diversity objectives/eliminate health care disparities.

Award Amount: $15K
Deadline: April
One application per institution.

Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Infectious Diseases

MD, DVM, or PhD
Assistant Professor

Award Amount: $500K over five years.
Deadline: November
Web-based questionnaire assessing eligibility to apply for this award.

Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Career Awards for Medical Scientists

Bridging support for advanced postdoc training and initial faculty years.

Award Amount: $700K for five years.
Deadline: October
Self-nomination with approval from GCO.

Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Career Awards at the Scientific Interface

Bridging support for advanced postdoc training and initial faculty years.

Award Amount: Up to $500K for three years.
Deadline: September
Web-based questionnaire assessing eligibility to apply for this award.

Charles A. Dana Foundation

David Mahoney Neuroimaging Program
Program in Brain and Immuno-Imaging

Application of imaging research to improve understanding of the brain, the immune system, and their interactions in health and disease.

Award Amount: up to $200K over three years.
Deadline: February
One application per institution.

JP Morgan Bank

Sinsheimer Scholar Award

Assistant Professor in first three years - research on prevention or cure of human disease.

Award Amount: $150K payable over three years.
Deadline: April
One application per institution.

Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation

Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award

Candidate must be MD or MD/PhD in clinical research within first four years of assistant professor appointment.

Award Amount: $150K/year for three years
Deadline: February
Three applications per institution.

Irma T. Hirschl Trust

Irma T. Hirschl/Monique Weill-Caulier Trust Research Awards

Junior faculty.

Award Amount: $40K/year for five years.
Deadline: November
One application per institution.

Mary Kay Ash Foundation

Mary Kay Ash Award

Focuses on funding research for innovative grants for translational research in ovarian, uterine, breast, or cervical cancer.

Award Amount: up to $100K for two years.
Deadline:February
One application per institution.

Pew

Pew Scholars Program in Biomedical Sciences

Assistant professors, not more than three years at this rank.

Award Amount: $60K/year for four years.
Deadline: November
One application per institution.

Searle

Searle Scholars Program

Assistant professors - not more than two years in first assistant professor appointment.

Award Amount: $100K/year for three years.
Deadline: September
Two applications from institution.

Charles H. Revson Foundation

Senior Fellowships in the Life Sciences

Postdocs with two-three years of experience, currently in a NYC medical school.

Award Amount: $65K/year for two years.
Deadline: March
Two applications per institution.

AAMC

Abraham Flexner Award - contributions to medical education

Highest honor academic medicine presents for sustained contributions to American medical education.

Award Amount: $10K
Deadline: May
One application per institution.

AAMC

Herbert W. Nickens Award

To an individual who has made outstanding contributions to promoting justice in medical education and health equity in the United States.

Award Amount: $10K
Deadline: May
One application per institution.

AAMC

Distinguished Research in the Biomedical Sciences Award

Honors outstanding medical research related to health and disease.

Award Amount: $5K
Deadline: May

AAMC

Spencer Foreman Outstanding Community Service Award

Institutional award for broad-based continuing commitment to community service.

Award Amount: Commemorative crystal piece.
Deadline: May
One application per institution.

AAMC

Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award

Honors a medical school faculty physician (MD or DO degree) who exemplifies the qualities of a caring and compassionate mentor in the teaching and advising of medical students.

Award Amount: Grant of $1K or 5K to institution.
Deadline: May

AAMC

Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teaching Award

Assistant professor or higher rank.

Award Amount: $10K to recipient, $5K to institution; $1K to chapter.
Deadline: May
One application per institution.

AAMC

David E. Rogers Award

To a member of a medical school faculty who has made major contributions to improving the health and health care of the American people.

Award Amount: $10K
Deadline: May

MSSM Donor

Dr. Harold and Golden Lamport Research Award

Junior faculty (first five years of tenure track assistant professor appointment) in either basic science or clinical research.

Award Amount: $9,000 –  two-four awards/year
Deadline: February
Internal - By nomination of Chair (or Division Chief in Medicine).

MSSM Donor

Robin Chemers Neustein Postdoctoral Fellowship Award

Female postdoctoral fellow currently at ISMMS who intends to complete her training in the next one to two years

Award Amount: $25,000 –  to supplement current salary
Deadline: May
Internal

Alexandrine and Alexander L. Sinsheimer Fund  Sinsheimer Award Within first three years of assistant professor appointment Award Amount:$150,000 over 3 years
Deadline: April
One application per institution
Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation

Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr.
Early Stage Investigator Award

Faculty members who hold M.D. and/or Ph.D. degrees, Within first four years of a tenure-track position, Without current RO1 funding

Award Amount: $60,000 for up to three years
Deadline: August
Two applications per institution

MSSM Donor

Solomon Silver Award in Clinical Medicine

Assistant Professor who applies the advances in scientific and laboratory medicine to the practice of medicine at the patient level

Award Amount: $400
Deadline: March-April
Internal - By nomination of Chair or Medicine Division Chief.

American Diabetes Association Diabetes Research Career Initiator Award  Post-doctoral fellow, or research fellow (less than seven years of research training following terminal doctoral degree) 

Award Amount: $100/yr for two years followed by up to five years of support for $325,000/year
Deadline: July

American Diabetes Association

Diabetes Research Career Accelerator Award

Early stage faculty establishing successful, independent diabetes research programs 

Award Amount: $325,000/year for five years
Deadline: July

American Diabetes Association

Diabetes Research Visionary Award

Established, experienced investigators with strong records of outstanding productivity – new to Diabetes research

Award Amount: $325,000/year for five years
Deadline:
July

Mary Kay Charitable Foundation Mary Kay Ash Award  Innovative grants for translational research in ovarian, uterine, breast or cervical cancer

Award Amount: $100,000 over 2 years
Deadline: February
One application per institution