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From: Palombo, Giovanna [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 2:33 PM
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Subject: fellowship announcement


Greetings!

We are asking that you kindly post this Funding Opportunity on your
ListServ, in your newsletter, on your web site, and/or pass it along
to
individuals who could benefit from this funding opportunity. Please let
me
know if this would be possible and if there are any different
guidelines or
procedures to be followed.

Thank you!

If you need more detailed information, please contact the Program
Director:

M. Margaret Dolcini, Ph.D.
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Tel. 415-514-2178
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Title of program: The Collaborative HIV-Prevention Research in
Minority
Communities Program

Offered by: The UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies

Sponsoring agency: National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development
(NICHD)
and National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Who should apply: Scientists/Researchers in tenure track positions and
investigators in research institutes who have not yet obtained RO1
funding
from the NIH or an equivalent agency.

Description of Project: The Collaborative HIV Prevention Research in
Minority Communities Program is designed to assist
Scientists/Researchers to
improve their programs of research and obtain additional funding for
their
work.

Purpose of project: To increase the numbers of ethnic minority group
members
among principal investigators at NIH, CDC, and other equivalent
agencies.
Investigators from the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies
collaborate
with scientists to develop an ethnic minority-focused HIV prevention
research project.

Program Overview: Participants will: (a) receive mentoring and $25,000
to
conduct their preliminary research; (b) spend six weeks in San
Francisco for
three consecutive summers; (c) receive a monthly stipend for living
expenses
and roundtrip airfare to San Francisco each summer.

Application deadline: January 13, 2006

Contact:	M. Margaret Dolcini, Ph.D.
	Program Director
	Center for AIDS Prevention Studies
	University of California, San Francisco
	50 Beale Street, Suite 1300
	San Francisco, CA  94105

Email: 	[log in to unmask] 
Phone: 	415-514-2178
Fax: 	415-597-9213

Website (info and application):
<http://www.caps.ucsf.edu/capsweb/projects/minorityindex.html>

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Caroline Fisher for
Giovanna Palombo
Administrative Assistant
UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies
50 Beale Street, Suite 1300
San Francisco, CA 94105
Tel: 415-597-9200
Fax: 415-597-9213