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Society of Nuclear Medicine
Funding Opportunities and Priorities for 2005
A wide range of program support is needed to advance education and research, encourage students to pursue nuclear medicine careers, help nuclear medicine evolve in developing countries and promote the dissemination of information and knowledge.
EDUCATIONAL AWARDS and GRANTS
SNM Scholarships in Molecular Imaging
Purpose: This award addresses the need to continue advancing molecular imaging and its potential for improved patient care by increasing the pool of physician scholars in nuclear medicine at North American institutions.
Description: This award will provide scholarship support for residents or fellows pursuing MD or
MD/PhD studies in nuclear medicine.
Eligibility: Applicants must be a citizen or permanent resident of a North American country accepted or enrolled in a nuclear medicine training program.
Selection Criteria: Academic merit, financial need, impact on future career goals
Award Amount: One-year scholarship at $30,000 per year
Other provisions: (Samples, incomplete)
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SNM Career Development Grant in Correlative/Anatomical Imaging
Purpose: This grant addresses the need for established NM physicians to enhance their competencies in anatomical and correlative imaging through support for a self-directed program of study. An important outcome of the award will be an educational product to help NM physicians enhance their knowledge/training in this area.
Description: This grant provides an opportunity for a practicing physician to develop a six-month, self-directed training program in single and fused modalities to include Computed Tomography
(CT), Positron Emission Tomography (PET), PET/CT and PET/SPECT through attendance at workshops, institutional programs, autodidactic studies and on-site field visits. Awardees would be expected to develop an SNM educational product(s) such as teaching cases for CME credit.
Eligibility: Applicants must be in practice for x number of years and, where necessary, have an agreement with their place of work on being released to pursue the study program.
Selection criteria: Quality of the proposed program of study, commitment of the applicant, demonstration of how the program of studies will impact the applicant’s career development and quality of the proposed educational product.
Award amount: $100,000 for six months. Grantees would be expected to use the monies to furnish all or a portion of their salary during their program.
Other Provisions (Samples, incomplete) :
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Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of North America
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Applicants are expected to submit a plan that utilizes criteria developed by the Society for pursuit of a program of study.

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Grantee will be expected to assess the value of the educational activities they undertook during the year and define the educational materials they would produce.
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Support from the Chair of the Division
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SNM Clinical Fellowships in PET/CT
Purpose: This grant addresses the need to provide clinical experience in state-of-the art anatomical and correlative imaging in nuclear medicine or radiology for trainees desiring first- hand clinical experience. An important outcome of this award will be medical practitioners with the requisite skills in imaging modalities and further integration of anatomical and correlative imaging in programs for residents in nuclear medicine and other specialties.
Description: This award will enable institutions with strong radiology and nuclear medicine departments to support training in correlative/anatomical imaging for their fellows in nuclear medicine and radiology.
Eligibility: North American academic institutions, clinics and hospitals that have well-developed clinical programs are invited to apply.
Selection Criteria (Sample, not necessarily complete): Fellows must
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Be citizens or permanent residents of a North American country
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Have completed their residency training in nuclear medicine or radiology
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Be certified or eligible to sit for such certification in their specialty
Award amount: The grant of $45,000 is to be used as salary support for the selected fellow.
Other Provisions: (To be developed )
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SNM Technologist Scholarships in PET/CT
Purpose: This awards helps to ensure nuclear medicine and radiology technologists have the knowledge and skills necessary to support PET/CT imaging.
Description: These awards provide tuition/fee support for technologists attending the PET/CT training offered by the Society of Nuclear Medicine’s PET Learning Center.
Eligibility: Certified nuclear medicine and radiology technologists.
Selection Criteria:
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Applicants can come from any country
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Financial need and the application of the training to the career of the candidate are key considerations.
Award amount: Tuition and fees at $1500 or $1800 (member vs. non-member fee) and a partial travel stipend where needed for a total of $2,000.
Other Provisions: (To be developed)
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SNM Program Development Grant in PET/CT
Purpose: This grant addresses the critical need for low-cost, widely accessible physician and technologist education and training in PET/CT. By melding the dynamic educational needs of
PET/CT with the dynamic character of web-based teaching and learning, nuclear medicine

physicians and technologists (and others) would have ready access to up-to-date training and education.
Description: This grant will enable educators, scientists and technologists to develop webdelivered educational materials and programs in PET/CT. Because this educational endeavor would involve developing materials for both physicians and technologists, we envision a two-year project.
Eligibility: Open to anyone in nuclear medicine in North America. Computer and web-site specialists may be involved as co-grantees.
Selection Criteria (Sample only): Quality of the proposal and demonstration of how the program can be maintained and updated.
Award amount: Up to $100,000 for each year
Other Provisions (Samples):
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All copyrights, patents and licensures will become the property of SNM
RESEARCH AWARDS AND GRANTS
SNM Research Fellowships in Molecular Imaging and Therapy
Purpose: This award is designed to stimulate interest in nuclear medicine research early in the career development of young investigators and junior physician faculty and to bring their talents to bear on nuclear medicine research and improved patient care.
Description: This award is available to physicians and scientists pursuing nuclear medicine- related research.
Eligibility: Applicants eligible for the award are those who 1) Are in the first (5) years of a fulltime, primary faculty appointment in a department of an academic institution (in North America);
2) Are board certified or eligible to sit for their specialty’s certifying exam; 3) Have an agreement from th eir division chief that at least 50% of their’ time will be directed toward the proposed research project for the full term of the grant; and 4) Have not served as a principal investigator, co-principal investigator or co-investigator on grants totaling ($50,000) or more in a single calendar year
Selection Criteria (Sample):
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Research that can potentially lead to federal grant support or other funding mechanisms will be given priority
Award amount: $60,000 each year for two years, payable directly to the institution for salary support only.
Other Provisions (To be developed):
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SNM Seed Grant in Nuclear Medicine Research
Purpose: To encourage the development of new research initiatives in nuclear medicine
Description: This one year grant is designed to assist researchers in conducting pilot research projects that have potential for future support from foundations, corporations or government agencies.

Eligibility:
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Applicants from any country may apply
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Applicants must hold a full-time faculty position in an educational institution when the award is given
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Applicants must have completed all advanced training
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Applicant must not have served as a principal investigator on grants totaling $50,000 or more in a single calendar year.
Selection Criteria:
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The potential of the pilot project to lead to cutting-edge research
Award Amount: Up to $25,000
Other Provisions:
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All areas of nuclear medicine-related research are eligible for support
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This award supports new pilot projects only
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No salary support
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SNM Fellowship Stipends in Nuclear Medicine Research
Purpose: This grant is designed to augment departmental support for graduate-level and postdoctoral nuclear medicine-related research. An outcome of this award would be the increase of young scientists and MD/PhDs conducting nuclear medicine research.
Description: Science and medical departments would be granted multi-year stipends to support graduate student involvement in nuclear medicine research.
Eligibility: Faculty in institutions in North America conducting nuclear medicine research.
Selection criteria (Sample):
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Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of North America
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Quality of research program and the research roles that would be undertaken by graduate level students
Award Amount: $5,000 each year for up to three years
Other Provisions (To be developed) :
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SNM International Fellowships in Nuclear Medicine
Purpose: This fellowship is designed to provide outstanding nuclear medicine research opportunities for young investigators from developing countries. An outcome of this support would be an enhancement of nuclear medicinerelated research in the fellows’ home countries and the application of nuclear medicine to improved patient care in such countries.
Description: Young scholars from developing countries would apply for these summer fellowships, identifying a host institution in North America where the research would be conducted.
Eligibility: Researchers with MD, PhD, MD/PhD or equivalent experience in medical research.
Their nuclear-medicine related research conducted in North America must have applicability to their future research program in their home country.

Selection criteria:
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Curriculum vitae and recommendations from the host and home institutions in support of the candidate and research project are emphasized.
 The potential of the research project to impact the fellow’s future research
Award Amount: $10,000.
Other provisions (Sample) :
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Fellowship funds can be used for any expenses related to the research including travel and living expenses
OTHER AWARDS
SNM Travel Stipends
Purpose: These awards are meant to promote the dissemination of nuclear medicine related research findings by trainees and young professionals and encourage continued involvement in nuclear medicine research.
Description: These awards would provide travel stipends of up to $2,000 to senior authors on abstracts presented at the SNM Annual Meeting. These authors must be or have been students or trainees at the time of the abstract submission and be in need of financial assistance to attend the Annual Meeting.
Eligibility: All abstract authors who are currently pursuing medical, PhD degrees or nuclear medicine technology degrees or who are recent graduates of their programs. Authors from any country may apply.
Selection Criteria : Financial need will be a primary consideration.
Award Amount: Up to $2,000
Other Provisions:
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Authors are expected to fulfill all SNM requirements for abstract presentation at the
Annual Meeting