ANNOUNCEMENT
McLean Hospital is pleased to announce the availability of
THE PHYLLIS AND JEROME LYLE RAPPAPORT MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH SCHOLARS AWARD
This annual award, established by the Phyllis and Jerome Lyle Rappaport Charitable Foundation, is expected to
be announced in May 2014. Funding is for a one-year period starting on July 1, 2014. The funds may be used to
support the recipient’s research toward finding the cause or cure for schizophrenia or other mental disorders, or
Alzheimer’s or other neurodegenerative diseases, improvement in the delivery of psychiatric treatments,
therapy or family counseling, or basic research in the fields of neurology, neurobiology or psychiatry.
Two separate awards will be given at $35,000 each. The awards are designed to support a stand-alone proposal
or a meaningful component of a larger project. Young investigators within seven years of receipt of their
terminal degree as of July 1, 2014, are eligible to apply. The awardees will be selected in consultation with a
special advisory committee convened for this purpose.
Support can be requested for principal researcher and staff salary + fringe benefits (32% of salary), supplies,
equipment or subject recruitment fees. It is expected that the budget will include the awardee’s salary in an
amount equivalent to time spent on the project. Please note that the award carries a 15% indirect cost rate
based on modified total direct costs. Applicants should include this calculation in preparing the budget. Awards
are not transferrable to other organizations. The award is competitively renewable for a second year upon
review of scientific progress.
The awardees may be asked to meet with the foundation board and will be expected to present their research
to the donors in a year’s time. It is further expected that the research findings will lead to a peer-reviewed
publication acknowledging the Rappaport Foundation’s support.
The application packet should include:
(1)
A Fellowship Application Face Page available on the Research Administration website:
(https://research.mclean.harvard.edu/PreAward/preawardforms.php) noting that this is an
application for the Rappaport Mental Health Research Scholar Award, the project title, and
applicant information (including name and signature, institutional title, laboratory affiliation,
location, and phone number);
(2)
A current curriculum vitae. Harvard format is preferred;
(3)
A project proposal (not exceeding four pages total, 10 point typeface), including (i) background and
significance, (ii) specific aims, (iii) budget, (iv) references, and;
(4)
A letter of recommendation from your research mentor, an established research scientist at McLean
Hospital.
Applications are due by February 28, 2014, and should be directed to Scott L. Rauch, MD, President and
Psychiatrist in Chief, Administration Building, McLean Hospital. Please send one original hard copy to Dr. Rauch
and a single scanned copy of the entire packet to rbrathwaite@partners.org.
Please direct any questions to:
Raquel Espinosa, Research Administration
617-855-2868