September 1, 2010

Discovery Fund in Honor of Dr. Michel Mirowski

Dear Colleagues,

The School of Medicine announces the inaugural Discovery Fund in Honor of Dr. Michel Mirowski and his wife, Anna, for Cardiovascular Research. The purpose of this award of up to $50,000 per year is to catalyze innovative ideas that are high risk and ordinarily would not be funded by NIH until sufficient preliminary data are gathered. In this regard, we are accepting applications for the Mirowski Idea Award with a deadline of Sept. 18. Winners will be announced on Oct. 1.

Applications should contain sections including: title, investigator (departmental and divisional affiliation), abstract, specific aims, innovation and impact, brief experimental plan, statement on possible future competitive funding and five references. Applications over a total of three pages will not be reviewed. (Please use single-spaced Arial font, size 11.) An NIH Biosketch should accompany the application. All documents should be assembled into a single PDF.

Please submit your application to Karen Falter at kjustice@jhmi.edu.

Sincerely,

Chi Van Dang, M.D., Ph.D.
Vice Dean for Research
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Gordon Tomaselli, M.D.
Michel Mirowski Professor of Cardiology
Professor of Medicine and Molecular Medicine
Chief, Division of Cardiology