FW: Call for Novartis Grant Applications 

New applications welcome!   

 First stage deadline April 25 (only one paragraph).
 
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Message From:   Dennis Lynch, M.D.              
To DFCI Independent Investigators:

The application process for the next round of Novartis-DFCI Drug Discovery
Program grants has begun. Your "offer" paragraphs, a brief description of
proposed research, are due by April 25, and full grants will be due by June 15.
Please see the attached "Call for Applications" for details.

You are urged to consider applying this year, since the new Novartis Oncology
leader (Bill Sellers) has expressed interest in funding a number of
investigators not currently in the Program.

If you have more than one possibility for a Novartis-funded project, submit more
than one offer.

When writing the five-page application, give careful consideration to how to
appeal to both the DFCI and Novartis reviewers. In the past, projects of
scientific excellence that showed promise for leading to, or collaborating with
Novartis Oncology programs received the highest scores.

If you have any questions about the science, please give me a call at 2-3130.
Any questions about the details of the process, please call Sylvia Lin at
2-5599.

Thanks,

Dennis Lynch


