FUNDING OPPORTUNITY 

Please note the GCRLE submission deadline will be extended collectively for all applicants to 11:59pm EST on February 18, 2020.  Please reference the GCRLE Buck webpage for updated documents, including the attached updated RFA.  

The Global Consortium for Reproductive Longevity and Equality (GCRLE) based at the Buck Institute is actively soliciting 2-year grant applications aimed toward identifying unifying principles that underlie female reproductive aging.  The awards are open to researchers based at both national and international accredited academic and nonprofit research institutions. We would greatly appreciate it if you would share this announcement with your network. 

Note that the February 3, 2020 deadline is fast approaching.  Given successful application of all scientific components, required administrative documents such as the institutional approval form or postdoc letter of recommendation will be considered for extension on a case-by-case basis. Please contact us should you have any questions.

 The RFA attached is currently open until February 3, 2020.  The application portal can be accessed here.

Specific Funding Mechanisms

• The call for Senior Scholar Awards will provide $800,000 over 2 years to support established investigators who are thought leaders in their respective fields and are recognized for substantial contributions of creative and productive research to pursue substantive, innovative research in female reproductive aging.
• The call for Junior Scholar Awards will provide $500,000 over 2 years to support early career investigators with outstanding promise when they are establishing their own labs. These awards are to encourage young scientists to pursue bold ideas in female reproductive aging when they are at their most scientifically creative. Early career investigators are defined as principal investigators who have been in an independent faculty role for less than six years at the time of application, i.e. starting after February 3, 2014. Independence is typically demonstrated by a full-time faculty appointment, allocated space, a start-up package, and institutional commitment as defined or verified in a letter from a department chair or equivalent.
• The call for Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards will provide $200,000 over 2 years to support exceptional young scientists at the beginning of their postdoctoral training in the area of female reproductive aging, broadly defined. Our goal is to provide support and training to promising postdoctoral scholars and to encourage the next generation of researchers to pursue creative projects in this exciting nascent field. Applicants must be within 3 years of the date of the award of their PhD or 4 years of their M.D. on February 3, 2020.
• The call for Pilot Awards will provide $200,000 over 2 years to foster innovative collaborative or novel research projects in female reproductive aging that have the potential for high impact and high reward at an accelerated rate. These awards will allow collection of preliminary data to apply for larger grants and we encourage applications to fund novel collaborative cross-discipline projects, with an emphasis on projects that establish novel collaborations.