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Endowments are funds or properties donated to an institution as a
source of income. Endowments can finance important program needs, such
as the creation of a postdoctoral fellowship in autoimmunity.
Young physicians
and scientists must make critical decisions when they come to the end
of their standard training. They must decide whether or not to pursue
an academic career in research. Those who choose a career in research
must then choose a sub-specialty area on which to focus their research
efforts. Countless physicians and scientists with enormous potential have
chosen not pursue an academic research career because of a lack of a secure
income. At the same time, young minds are the most creative minds.
We want and need to make autoimmunity research an attractive career choice.
We propose to create a fellowship training program in autoimmune
diseases at Johns Hopkins. This program will provide secured funding to young
scientists and physicians wishing to pursue a career in autoimmunity research.
The research fellowship program will take advantage of and most importantly encourage the creativity
of the trainees. The fellows will not be mere technicians following detailed
instructions from a mentor. Instead, the fellows will be given extensive
free time and will focus on creating novel technologies and on identifying new technologies,
developed in other fields, which can be applied to autoimmunity research.
The budget for a research fellow and supplies is $70,000 per year (most
fellowships last 2 or 3 years). For more information about creating an endowment
or supporting the fellowship program, contact Patrizio Caturegli.
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