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• The Applicant and the applicant's Chief of Staff/ Research Project Director must be members of the ISHLT in good standing at the time of application and throughout the period of funding.

• The Applicant must have completed a clinical or post-doctoral training program. Applications from new investigators are specifically invited.

• The research project must be conducted at an accredited university, college, medical or dental school, School of Public Health, hospital, laboratory, or other non-profit institution.

• No awards will be made for projects that receive overlapping funding from other sources (unless supplementary in nature) or that duplicate other projects already funded.

1. The Award recipient and the recipient’s institution will be required to sign an agreement with ISHLT prior to receiving any portion of the funding.

2. Research must begin between May 1 and December 31 of the award year.

3. The funds must be used within two (2) years of the final installment disbursement date, unless an extension is approved by the ISHLT Grants and Awards Committee and the Enduring Hearts Scientific Advisory Committee.

4. The results of funded research must be submitted in one of the following formats within three years of the initial date of funding:
• as a manuscript to the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation;
• as an abstract for the ISHLT Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions; or
• as a report for publication in the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation.

5. The results of funded research cannot have been previously published or presented prior to publication in the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation or presentation at the ISHLT Annual Meeting.

6. ISHLT and Enduring Hearts must be acknowledged as a funding source in all manuscripts and presentations derived from the funded research via the following statement, "This work was supported by a research award from Enduring Hearts and the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation" Copies of these presentations I publications must be submitted to the ISHLT Headquarters office and the Enduring Hearts Headquarters office within one (1) month of presentation / publication.

7. Funding will be awarded to the institution in four (4) portions. Twenty-five percent (25%) of the funding will be provided initially, with the remaining funding provided in three (3) twenty-five percent (25%) installments every six (6) months after the date of initial funding, with the final installment being paid at the conclusion of the 2-year funding period. Each additional installment of funding will be made after receipt of a scientific progress report accompanied by a brief lay (readability grade < 12) summary. The additional installments of funding will not be made if the research is no longer being conducted at the original institution.

8. The final progress report must include:
a. a scientific summary of the project at the time of completion
b. a lay (readability grade < 12) summary of the project at the time of completion
c. a summary of the findings/conclusions, if available
d. a reconciled budget showing how the funds were expended
e. a commitment to submit the research findings in one of the formats outlined in the policies section #4 above within 12 months

9. The award recipient’s institution must agree that the funds will be expended for the purpose(s) described in the application, that there is no duplicate funding for these purposes, and that no portion of the award will be used for indirect costs, or institutional overheard. If the overall project budget includes the purchase of capital equipment, these expenditures must be reviewed and approved by the Enduring Hearts Scientific Advisory Committee and the Enduring Hearts Finance Committee.

10. The award recipient or his/her research project director must be present at the Awards Session at the ISHLT Annual Meeting to receive acknowledgment of the award.

BEFORE YOU BEGIN THE APPLICATION PROCESS, please review the six attachments described below, five of which are required. Once you have all of the required attachments, you may proceed to the Application Form.

ALL ATTACHMENTS MUST BE IN PDF FORMAT

1) Curriculum vitae and bibliography (combined into one document) - REQUIRED

2) A description of the project which will be undertaken during the term of support. This description should be organized into four sections and not exceeding five single-spaced, typewritten pages, including references and figures: - REQUIRED
a) part 1: brief summary/overview describing the nature and duration of the proposed project
b) part 2: project goals
c) part 3: methods
d) part 4: significance

3) Letter of recommendation from the Chief of Staff of your current institution – REQUIRED

4) Letter of recommendation from the Research Project Director at the proposed institution of study (if different than the individual in #3) - NOT REQUIRED UNLESS DIFFERENT FROM #3

5) A brief description, written by the Research Project Director, of the facilities and resources available and of the overall training program, including the number and nature of trainees in this research program and the percentage of time the applicant will spend in non-research related activities - REQUIRED

6) A budget detailing the anticipated expenses for the term of funding, the amount of support requested for each line of the budget, and all additional sources of funding. The award may be used for any portion of the budget, except that it may not be used to pay for indirect costs, capital equipment purchases (unless separately approved by ISHLT and EH), or institutional overhead - REQUIRED

There is an area at the end of this application for you to upload the above required documents.

This form has five parts:

I) Applicant Information
II) Institution Information
III) Project Information
IV) Required Attachments
V) Submission

IMPORTANT NOTE: You cannot save a partially completed application and return to it at a later date, so please read through all of the questions and be sure you have time to answer before proceeding.

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