PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR INFORMATION

First Name: Last Name:

Undergraduate Education (institution and dates of attendance).

Graduate Education (name of Ph.D. thesis director, institution, and period of graduate study; list M.S. degree experience also, if applicable).

Other Postgraduate Education or Appointments.

Postdoctoral Experience (name of postdoctoral mentor(s), institution and dates of appointment(s).

Describe your present appointment, the date on which it began, and any other special aspects of it that warrant attention.

Each application must include a completed Research Support Form indicating ALL current research support, including any special awards, as well as continuing support. Please complete all fields including a brief comment on how each overlaps (or not) with respect to this proposal.

References:

List three persons whom you have asked to provide letters on your behalf. At least one of these three should be someone who was not your Ph.D. or postdoctoral research mentor, but who can provide a substantive evaluation of your proposal. At least one of the letters of recommendation will have to come from an expert in the field of the proposal with whom the applicant has no association (nor a mentor), and who is at an institution where the applicant has never been (including, especially, the applicant's current position.) Each letter should be sent to you in a sealed envelope and forwarded with your application/proposal materials. Alternatively, the people providing the letters of recommendation may mail them directly to the Foundation office. Facsimile or xerox copies of reference letters will not be accepted. All letters of reference must be received by the application/proposal deadline of October 1, 2008.