BU-SHARP\u2019s Emerging Scholars Pilot Grants support pilot projects from early-stage investigators, targeting projects that use innovative approaches to study between and within group patterning of AD\/ADRD onset, progression, and consequences in disproportionately affected populations, individual and interpersonal social resources and mechanisms that serve as risk or protective factors, and modifiable contextual influences of AD\/ADRD in the United States.<\/p>\n
Early-stage investigators (up to 10 years post-PhD without independent NIH funding) are eligible for Emerging Scholars Pilot Grants. Proposed pilot projects must fall within demography, economics, or related interdisciplinary population-based fields (e.g., sociology, public health) and address one or more of BU-SHARP research themes.<\/p>\n
Emerging Scholars Pilot Grants may request up to $20,000 of funding (direct costs). Funds must be spent over a two-year period. Allowable expenses may include: salary\/fringe, data collection, research staff, travel, and supplies (e.g., computing software). Each recipient will also receive funds for registration and travel to the Population Association of America (PAA) annual meeting. Emerging Scholars pilot grant awardees will also be eligible for funds to cover travel to one other relevant scientific conference to present the research they complete through this pilot grant.<\/p>\n
Each Emerging Scholar will be paired with one primary and one secondary mentor from the BU-SHARP team and will also have regular mentoring meetings with Dr. Deborah Carr, BU-SHARP MPI and lead for the Program Development (Pilot) Core. Depending on the investigator\u2019s needs, BU-SHARP leadership may facilitate connection to a secondary mentor at another institution. The mentorship team (primary and secondary mentors and Dr. Carr) will meet with the scholar at the start of their pilot funding period to develop an individualized mentoring plan, which will include quarterly pilot grant progress goals and benchmarks, anticipated timeline for producing a NIH K- or R-proposal, identification of topics for professional development and\/or technical assistance, and a tentative schedule for presentation at a BU-SHARP Research Accelerator Meeting and a professional conference.<\/p>\n
Applications require: (a) a cover letter describing the applicant\u2019s interest in the program and longer-term career goals including the pursuit of NIH funding for expanding the proposed pilot research, (b) a project abstract, (c) specific aims, (d) a research strategy that includes the subsections of Significance, Innovation, Approach, and Anticipated Outcomes, (e) references, and (f) a dissemination plan.<\/p>\n
An annual call for applications will be announced each academic year. Applications for the second cohort of Emerging Scholars will be announced later in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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