Penn/CHOP CAregiver REtention Support (Penn/CHOP CARES) Program

Call for Applications
Applications Due: November 15th, 2021

The Penn/CHOP CAregiver REtention Support (Penn/CHOP CARES) Program has been instituted to accelerate the research of junior faculty physician-scientists (men and women) with significant family caregiving responsibilities due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Typically, family caregiving responsibilities would be childcare, partner care, and/or eldercare, but applicants may make the case for other reasonable family caregiving responsibilities. Applications from women and members of underrepresented minorities are strongly encouraged. 

PROGRAM BENEFITS:

• One-year grant awards of $50,000 ($50,000 Award Stipend plus the possibility of additional institutional funds from Penn/CHOP) to be used flexibly by awardees. Funds may be used to support research staff (technician or research coordinator), consultants (e.g. biostatistician), or salary support to reduce clinical obligations.
• Regular meetings with current scholars and senior faculty to foster relationships and facilitate networking

APPLICANT ELIGIBILITY:

• Penn/CHOP Physician-Scientists (men and women) (MD, DO, or MD/PhD degree) at the Assistant Professor level (within 10 years of Assistant Professor appointment) on the tenure and clinician-educator (CE) track
• Eligible awardees will have independent research funding (PI on a NIH, other federal agency, or foundation-sponsored grant for a research project or career development) with a minimum of 50% effort allocation to research, but will have not yet successfully competed for R01-level funding.
• Must be conducting original clinical research on a significant biomedical problem, and funds cannot be used to support experiments that utilize non-human animals or any tissues or cells derived from them
• Able to provide a compelling rationale for how funds will accelerate scientific productivity hampered by significant family caregiving responsibilities due to COVID-19

APPLICATION MATERIALS:

• Formatting: Arial or Helvetica font, 11 point or larger font size, one-half inch margins (top, bottom, left, and right) for all pages
• Required application components:
  • Cover page
  • Description of currently funded clinical research project (1/2 page maximum)
  • Extraprofessional family caregiving responsibilities resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic (1/2 page maximum)
  • Expected impact of Penn/CHOP CARES award to accelerate research progress (1/2 page maximum)
  • NIH Biosketch (5 page maximum)
  • Other Support (all current and pending research support)
• All materials should be compiled into a single PDF and submitted as an attachment to Susan Primavera at sprimave@pennmedicine.upenn.edu by 4 pm on November 15, 2021
• Applications will be reviewed by a panel of senior faculty who are clinical researchers. Applicants will be notified of outcomes by email.

For questions, please email: 

Audrey John at JOHNA3@chop.edu

Hillary Bogner at hillary.bogner@pennmedicine.upenn.edu