Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Clinical Research

Clinical Research Career Ladder

2009 Clinical Scientist Development Awards

$5,670,000 over 3 years
In 2009, 14 junior physician-scientists each received three-year grants of $405,000 to support their transition from mentored to independent clinical research careers.
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Clinical Research Frontiers

2009 Innovation in Clinical Research Awards

$2,430,000 over 3 years
In 2009, the foundation awarded three-year grants of $486,000 each to five early-stage research projects that have the potential to catalyze innovative therapies for sickle cell disease.
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Other Grants

Albert Einstein School of Medicine

$50,000 over 1 year
Bronx, NY – To provide a bridge grant for the Clinical Scientist Development Award project titled, “Impact of HIV Antiretroviral Therapy and TB Genotype on Survival in Multidrug Resistance.”
www.einstein.yu.edu

Clinical Research Forum

$10,000 over 9 months
Washington, DC – To support the forum’s annual meeting, which focused on new opportunities for clinical research in difficult times.
www.clinicalresearchforum.org

Foundation for the NIH

$25,300 over 1 year
Bethesda, MD – To support the 2009 Clinical Investigator Student Trainee Forum, a meeting of medical students participating in clinical and translational research fellowships.
www.fnih.org

Universities Allied for Essential Medicines

$10,000 over 5 months
Berkeley, CA – To support the annual conference and development of strategies for the equitable dissemination of medical technologies.
www.essentialmedicine.org

Vanderbilt University

$54,000 over 1 year
Nashville, TN – To support the Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars & Fellows Global Health Research Trainee Alumni Symposium.
www.vanderbilt.edu

African Health Research

African Health Initiative

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

$8,000,000 over 5 years
Boston, MA – To support the Population Health Implementation & Training Partnership project titled “Strengthening and Studying Community-Based, Integrated Primary Health Care Systems in Rural Rwanda.”
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Health Alliance International

$10,000,000 over 7 years
Seattle, WA – To support the Population Health Implementation & Training Partnership project titled “Strengthening Integrated Primary Health Care and Workforce Training in Sofala Province, Mozambique.”
Project Details

Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

$14,671,500 over 5 years
New York, NY – To support the Population Health Implementation & Training Partnership project titled “Accelerating Millennium Development Goal Progress by Exchanging Health System Innovations between Tanzania and Ghana.”
Project Details

University of Alabama, Birmingham

$11,100,000 over 6 years
Birmingham, AL – To support the Population Health Implementation & Training Partnership project in Zambia titled “Clinical Mentoring and Community Engagement to Improve Health Outcomes.”
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Other Grants

National Academy of Sciences

$50,000 over 16 months
Washington, DC – To support the Institute of Medicine’s expert consensus committee study, “Envisioning a Strategy to Prepare for the Long-Term Burden of HIV/AIDS: Global Needs and U.S. Interests.”
www.nasonline.org

Clinical Research Career Ladder

2008 Distinguished Clinical Scientist Awards

$9,000,000 over 5 to 7 years
In 2008, six outstanding physician-scientists at the mid-career level each received grants of $1.5 million to be used over five to seven years.
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2008 Clinical Scientist Development Awards

$8,100,000 over 3 years
In 2008, 20 junior physician-scientists each received three-year grants of $405,000.
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African Health Research

African Health Initiative Planning Grants for
Population Health Implementation & Training Partnerships

$1,716,328 over 6 months
In 2008, the foundation awarded planning grants to 11 teams to support their development of plans for establishing research, training and service delivery partnerships that address barriers to delivering integrated primary healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Clinical Research Career Ladder

2007 Clinical Scientist Development Awards

$8,100,000 over 3 years
In 2007, 20 junior physician-scientists each received three-year grants of $405,000.
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Clinical Research Fellowship for Medical Students

$9,000,000 over 3.5 years
In 2007, 12 medical schools received grants to support three classes of fellows for the Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship program (with fellowships commencing in 2008, 2009 and 2010), with six schools offering an international fellowship component.
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African Health Research

2007 Operations Research on AIDS Care and Treatment in Africa Grants

$2,000,000 over 2 years
In 2007, 10 teams of researchers received two-year grants of $200,000 each to support operations research on AIDS care and treatment in Africa.
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Clinical Research Career Ladder

2006 Distinguished Clinical Scientist Awards

$10,500,000 over 5 to 7 years
In 2006, seven outstanding physician-scientists at the mid-career level each received grants of $1.5 million to be used over five to seven years.
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2006 Distinguished Clinical Scientist Continuation Awards

$600,000 over 3 years
In 2006, 3 former Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award recipients received continuation grants of $200,000 each to support their exceptional mentoring programs.
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2006 Clinical Scientist Development Awards

$9,315,000 over 3 years
In 2006, 23 junior physician-scientists each received three-year grants of $405,000.
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Clinical Research Fellowship for Medical Students

$390,000 over 1 year
In 2006, three of the 10 medical schools participating in the Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship program received grants of $130,000 each to pilot international fellowship opportunities during the 2007-2008 fellowship year: University of California San Francisco, Columbia University and Yale University. (A fourth pilot site also has been established at Harvard Medical School.)

International AIDS Research –
One-Time Grants

Friends of King’s College London Association, Inc.

$85,000 over 1 year

• Principal Investigator:
  Philippa Easterbrook, M.D., M.P.H., F.R.C.P.
• Project: Epidemiology and Immunogenetics of Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome (South Africa)

International AIDS Research –
Operations Research

2006 Operations Research on AIDS Care and
Treatment in Africa Grants

$1,800,000 over 2 years
In 2006, nine teams received two-year grants of $200,000 each to support operations research on AIDS care and treatment in Africa. (Eleven additional teams received grants in 2005 as part of the same competition.)
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Clinical Research Career Ladder

2005 Clinical Scientist Development Awards

$4,455,000 over 3 years
In 2005, 11 junior physician-scientists each received three-year grants of $405,000.
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Clinical Research Fellowship for Medical Students

$240,000 over 2 years
In 2005, each of the 10 medical schools participating in the Clinical Research Fellowship program received grants of $24,000 each to increase fellowship stipends to $25,000 for 2006-2007 and to $27,000 for 2007-2008.

Clinical Research Frontiers

2005 Clinical Interfaces Awards

$6.75 million over 5 years
In 2005, 3 multidisciplinary teams each received five-year grants of $2.25 million to address challenging questions in human disease.
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International AIDS Research

2005 Operations Research on AIDS Care and
Treatment in Africa Grants

$2,200,000 over 2 years
In 2005, 11 teams each received two-year grants of $200,000 through the foundation's first competition to support operations research on AIDS care and treatment in Africa. (Nine additional teams received grants in early 2006 as part of the same competition.)
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Clinical Research Career Ladder

2004 Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award

$6 million over 5 to 7 years
In 2004, four outstanding physician-scientists at the mid-career level each received grants of up to $1.5 million to be used over 5 to 7 years.
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Clinical Research Fellowship for Medical Students

$5 million over 3 years
To renew the Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship program at 10 U.S. medical schools for three new classes of fellows that will collectively support at least 150 fellowships between 2005 and 2008.

International AIDS Research

University of Cape Town Fund, Inc.

$312,428 over 3 years
Principal Investigator: Robin Wood, M.D.
To expand the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre’s training program for health care workers participating in clinical research on HIV/AIDS care and treatment.
www.uct.ac.za

Yale University School of Medicine

$256,200 over 2 years
Principal Investigator: Gerald Friedland, M.D.
To assess the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of integrating anti-retroviral therapy into existing tuberculosis treatment programs at Tugela Ferry in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Clinical Research Frontiers

2003 Innovation in Clinical Research Award

$1.88 million over 2 years
In 2003, 9 grants of $200,000 and 1 grant of $76,196 were awarded to investigators to support research to develop point-of-care diagnostics and therapeutic monitoring of AIDS in resource-poor countries.
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2003 Clinical Interfaces Award

$1.07 million over 3 years (full grant)
$400,000 over 18 months (planning grants)
In 2003, one full grant of $1.07 million and five planning grants of $80,000 each were awarded to multi-disciplinary teams of investigators working to catalyze activity at the interface of clinical and other research disciplines.
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International AIDS Research

General Hospital Corporation

$300,000 over 1 year
Boston, MA - To support construction of Phase 3 of the Doris Duke Medical Research Institute at the Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine at the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa.
www.mgh.harvard.edu, http://www.nu.ac.za

Johns Hopkins University

$742,000 over 2 years
To support the Rakai Research Collaboration based in rural Uganda, a partnership among researchers from Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, Makerere University, and the Uganda Virus Research Institute. Funds will be used to complete the partially built new Rakai Project Clinical Laboratory and Training Centre in Kalisizo, Uganda, and to fund up to eight 2- to 4-month research fellowships at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine for Ugandan investigators working on the Rakai project.
www.jhu.edu

Clinical Research Systems

Johns Hopkins University

$50,000 over 1 year
Baltimore, MD - To enable the Consortium to Examine Clinical Research Ethics to complete a study assessing Institutional Review Board costs and a number of pending manuscripts, as well as explore other funding mechanisms to support the Consortium's long-term activities.
www.jhu.edu

Clinical Research Career Ladder

2002 Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award

$7.25 million over 5 to 7 years
In 2002, five outstanding physician-scientists at the mid-career level each received grants of up to $1.5 million to be used over 5 to 7 years.
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2002 Clinical Scientist Development Award

Up to $5.455 million over 5 years
In 2002, 10 young physician-scientists received awards as follows: 6 at the junior faculty level each received grants of $100,000 per year for up to 5 years, and 4 at the fellow level each received five-year grants of $65,000 per year for up to 2 years, after which they are expected to transition to faculty-level awards of $100,000 per year for 3 years.
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Clinical Research Frontiers

2002 Innovation in Clinical Research Award

$2.2 million over 2 years
In 2002, 11 investigators or pairs of investigators each received awards of $100,000 per year for 2 years for research on cardiovascular diseases (including stroke) and sickle cell anemia and other blood disorders (excluding cancer).
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International AIDS Research

Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation

$472,500 over 1 year
Santa Monica, CA - To support one of three grants to be awarded through the International Leadership Award Program, an open competition that provides 3-year grants to trained scientists in resource-limited countries for research, program costs and mentoring activities.
www.pedaids.org

Massachusetts General Hospital

$2.25 million over 4 years
Boston, MA - To support the bilateral HIV Pathogenesis Program between Harvard Medical School and the Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine at the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa.
www.mgh.harvard.edu, www.nu.ac.za

Massachusetts General Hospital

$1.5 million over 1 year
Boston, MA - To support construction of Phase 1 of the new Medical Research Institute at the Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine at the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa, which will house the bilateral HIV Pathogenesis Program.
www.mgh.harvard.edu, www.nu.ac.za

Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation

$127,000 over 1 year
San Francisco, CA - To support the pilot phase of the South African HIV Research Partnership's initiative designed to test the feasibility and efficacy of providing HIV antiretroviral drugs to people in resource-limited settings.
www.pgaf.org

Clinical Research Career Ladder

2001 Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award

$10.5 million over 5 to 7 years
In 2001, seven outstanding physician-scientists at the mid-career level each received grants of $1.5 million to be used over 5 to 7 years.
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2001 Clinical Scientist Development Award

Up to $8.175 million over 5 years
In 2001, 15 young physician-scientists received awards as follows: 10 at the junior faculty level each received grants of $100,000 per year for up to 5 years, and five at the fellow level each received five-year grants of $65,000 per year for up to 2 years, after which they are expected to transition to faculty-level awards of $100,000 per year for 3 years.
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Clinical Research Fellowship for Medical Students

$1.44 million over 4 years
To establish the Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship program at three additional medical schools that will collectively support an additional total of at least 15 fellows each year of the program.

Clinical Research Frontiers

2001 Innovation in Clinical Research Award

$2.2 million over 2 years
In 2001, 11 investigators or pairs of investigators each received awards of $100,000 per year for 2 years for research on cardiovascular disease, stroke and blood disorders.
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International AIDS Research

General Hospital Corporation

dba Massachusetts General Hospital
$125,000 over 1 year
Boston, MA - To complete the purchase of a flow cytometer for ongoing collaborative studies between investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa.
www.mgh.harvard.edu

Johns Hopkins University

$325,000 over 1 year
Principal Investigator: J. Brooks Jackson, M.D.
Project: A Pilot Project of Universal Nevirapine Access to Prevent HIV Mother-to-Child Transmission in Kampala, Uganda
www.jhu.edu

Clinical Research Systems

Duke University Medical Center

$830,000 over 2 years
Durham, NC - To establish the Consortium to Examine Clinical Research Ethics - a multidisciplinary group of clinical researchers, industry representatives, Institutional Review Board members and bioethicists from across the nation - to re-evaluate the systems in place to oversee research with human participants and to provide data and analysis that will help inform public policy discussions.
www.mc.duke.edu

Clinical Research Career Ladder

2000 Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award

$10.5 million over 5 to 7 years
In 2000, seven outstanding physician-scientists at the mid-career level each received grants of $1.5 million to be used over 5 to 7 years.
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2000 Clinical Scientist Development Award

Up to $8.04 million over 5 years
In 2000, 17 young physician-scientists received awards as follows: 13 at the junior faculty level each received grants of $100,000 per year for up to 5 years, and four at the fellow level each received grants of $65,000 per year for up to 2 years, after which they are expected to transition to faculty-level awards of $100,000 per year for up to 3 years.
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Clinical Research Fellowship for Medical Students

$5.055 million over 4 years
To establish the Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship program at seven medical schools that will collectively support a total of at least 35 fellows each year of the four-year program.

Clinical Research Frontiers

2000 Innovation in Clinical Research Award

$1.4 million over 2 years
In 2000, seven investigators or pairs of investigators each received awards of $100,000 per year for 2 years for research on cardiovascular disease.
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International AIDS Research

Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

$178,000 over 1 year
Principal Investigator: Taha E.Taha, M.D., Ph.D.
Project: Nevirapine/AZT at Birth to Reduce Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (Malawi)
www.jhu.edu

Clinical Research Career Ladder

1999 Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award

$12.55 million over 5 years
In 1999, four outstanding physician-scientists at the mid-career level each received grants of $600,000 per year for 5 years.
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1999 Clinical Scientist Award

Up to $7.1 million over 3 to 5 years
In 1999, 15 promising young physician-scientists each received grants of $100,000 per year for 3 years, plus additional funds for indirect costs and training. Funding for up to two additional years will be considered on an individual basis.
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Clinical Research Career Ladder

1998 Clinical Scientist Award Program

Up to $6.8 million over 3 to 5 years
In 1998, 14 promising young physician-scientists each received grants of $100,000 per year for 3 years, plus additional funds for indirect costs and training. Funding for up to two additional years will be considered on an individual basis.
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