Program Summary-Early Career Awards

The Thrasher Research Fund is pleased to announce the fifth year of its Early Career Award Program in for 2010. The Fund will continue to make 30 awards in 2010,expanded from 21 awards in 2006-2007. The Fund recognizes that young investigators may find it difficult to remain in pediatric research because of a lack of funding. Therefore, the purpose of this program is to encourage the development of medical research in child health by awarding small grants to new researchers. There are three funding cycles per year for New Researcher Award Program grants. Up to ten grants per cycle will be made in 2010. 

The Fund is open to a variety of research topics important to children’s health. The Fund’s current focus is on clinical/translational pediatric research. Emphasis is placed on projects with the potential for findings that could be clinically applicable in a relatively short period of time for the prevention, diagnosis and/or treatment of pediatric medical problems.