Qualifications for Trainee slots:
- All appointments to this training grant are restricted to U.S. citizens and permanent residents.
- Applicants must be committed to cancer research.
- Predoctoral applicants must be enrolled in GPILS (PhD or MD/PhD program) at the University of Maryland Baltimore. Students must have completed the required courses: GPLS 790 - Advanced Cancer Biology and GPLS 665 - Cancer Biology: From Basic Research to the Clinic.
- An applicant may apply for an exception to this requirement. However, applicants may be required to take the course during the training period.
- Postdoctoral applicants must have completed doctoral level training (e.g. PhD, MD, MD/PhD, PharmD, DDS or equivalent). Evidence of scholarly productivity in the form of publications or planned publications is highly desirable. Trainees from clinical residence and fellowship training programs (e.g. Hematology/Oncology fellowship and Surgical residency programs) are encouraged to apply.
Criteria for selection:
- Academic excellence
- Quality of the research project and training opportunity
- Relatedness of the project and training opportunity to the cancer research field
- Quality of the candidate
- Quality of the mentoring
- Evidence of the candidate’s research ability and potential
- Relatedness of the candidate’s career goals to cancer research
- Progress over the last year (for renewal applications ONLY)
Your attachments must follow these minimum requirements:
- All documents must be in PDF format unless otherwise stated (i.e., Progress Report).
- Font: Arial, Georgia, Helvetica and Palatino Linotype are all acceptable fonts.
- Text size: Must be 11 points or larger.
- Line spacing: Single-spaced
- Use paper size no larger than standard letter paper size (8 ½" x 11”).
- Provide at least one-half inch margins (½") - top, bottom, left, and right - for all pages. No applicant-supplied information can appear in the margins.
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