Applicants must have graduated from medical school within the past eight years and also completed at least one year of post-doctoral clinical training.  Those who have progressed beyond the rank of assistant professor are not eligible.   The award funds both salary and core research expenses.  All scientific research relevant to human health is eligible for consideration; research that has relevance to cures for human disease is highly encouraged.

Currently, three  Scholars are selected annually.  Candidates must apply through the medical schools with which they are affiliated.  Each school is permitted to nominate only one individual.

In 2003, the Fund received 35 qualifying  applications for the Scholarship period.  They were read and evaluated by the Scholarship program's Scientific Advisory Committee during the early fall, and final decisions were made by the end of the year. 

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2005

Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, Stanford University
Sharon Maynard, MD University of Massachusetts
Loren Walensky, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School

2004

Cammie F. Lesser, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School
Christine Kim Garcia, MD, PhD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
Ajay Chawla, MD, PhD, Stanford University

2003 

2002

Benhur Lee, MD, PhD, UCLA

Christopher D. Ferris, MD, PhD, Vanderbilt University

David Matthew Altshuler , MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School
Gretchen L. Birbeck, MD, PhD, Michigan State University

2001

Asa Abeliovich, MD, PhD, Columbia University

Lynda Chin, MD, Harvard Medical School

Jay M. Edelberg, MD, PhD, Cornell University

Kerry James Ressler, MD, PhD,  Emory University School of Medicine

Charleen T. Chu, MD, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
Thomas J. Baranski, MD, PhD, Washington University, St. Louis
Anthony E. Oro, MD, PhD, Stanford University
Jacqueline F. Bromberg, MD, PhD, Cornell University

Joseph M. Vinetz, MD, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
Dean Y. Li, MD, PhD, University of Utah

C. Michael Knudson, MD, PhD, University of Iowa
Steven M. Finkbeiner, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School

Jonathan M. Graff, MD, PhD, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Steffan N. Ho, MD, PhD, University of California, San Diego.
Steven L. McIntire, MD, PhD, University of California, San Francisco.
Elizabeth M. McNally, MD, PhD, University of Chicago

Michael P. Lisanti, MD, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
Andrew D. Luster, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School

David S. Bredt, MD, PhD, University of California, San Francisco 

Lewis A. Chodosh, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Clifford R. Lyons, MD, PhD, University of New Mexico
Dwight A. Towler, MD, PhD, Washington University 

1995

Robin G. Lorenz, MD, PhD, Washington University
Jeremy Luban, MD, Columbia University
David B. Roth, MD, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine 

William H. Landschulz, MD, PhD, University of Texas - Southwestern Medical School 
Louis J. Ptacek, MD, University of Utah 

Russ B. Altman, MD, PhD, Stanford University
Fred Levine, MD, PhD, Univ. of California San Diego
Mark S. Schlissel, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins University 

Peter M. Glazer, MD, PhD, Yale University
Daniel E. Goldberg, MD, PhD, Washington University
Keith Mostov, MD, PhD, University of California San Francisco 

Sandra Lee Hofmann, MD, PhD, University of Texas
Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD, Yale University
Michael B. Whitlow, MD, PhD, New York University

Glen Hortin, MD, PhD, Washington University, St. Louis
Karen Hsiao, MD, PhD, University of California, San Francisco

Stephanie Lee, MD, PhD Tufts University 

Mary Ann Thompson Arildsen, MD, PhD, New York University
Edward Murphy, MD, MPH, University of California, San Francisco
Katherine Murray, MD, Vanderbilt University 

Mark Hughes, MD, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine
Michael McPhaul, MD, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School
Michael Seldin, MD, PhD, Duke University Medical Center