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APS Launches Stop-Gap Fellowship Program

Earlier this year, the APS Council launched a stopgap initiative in response to the diminishing success rate of candidates competing for NIH F32 Fellowship support. In order to assist our members contending with the reduction in available resources from NIH in support of postdoctoral fellowships, the Initiative targeted individuals who had narrowly missed NIH funding. This interim initiative was designed to provide our members with the ability to continue the training of future independent physiologists. The goal was to support postdoctoral fellowship candidates who were scheduled to work in the laboratories of members of the American Physiological Society. The Council committed funds to support up to 10 postdoctoral fellowships as part of this short-term initiative.

The Program’s first deadline of August 1^st resulted in the award of 3 Postdoctoral Fellowships.  All of the applicants were APS members at the time of application and their postdoctoral mentors had been members in good standing for at least 3 years immediately prior to application. Each of the fellowship recipients had a non-funded NIH postdoctoral fellowship application with a priority score of 200 or better on which the applicant was the principal investigator.   

The successful applicants received an award totaling $42,000 consisting of a stipend of $37,000 and $5,000 provided as the Fellow’s institutional allowance for his/her use for health insurance, books, travel, etc. No indirect costs were allowed.  The successful applicants were:

Chad C. Carroll, Ball State University
Analgesics, Exercise & Tendon Adaptations in the Elderly

Sonnet Jonker, University of Iowa
Regulation of Fetal Cardiac Growth After Correction of Increased Hemodynamic Load

Jonathan Wingo, Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas
Spinal Cord Injury and Heat Acclimation

The next deadline for the APS Stop-Gap Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is January 2, 2008.  Information about the Program can be found at http://www.the-aps.org/awards/student/postdocinitiative.htm.