Awards History
Types of Awards
Center of Excellence
This board-designated award is FAMRI’s Centerpiece for linking physicians and scientists from various disciplines into multidisciplinary programs in patient care and research. The Board of Trustees has placed a moratorium on these applications.
Clinical Innovators
This three-year award is to stimulate novel medical and clinical scientific research studies on the effects of exposure to tobacco smoke and to foster innovative breakthroughs as well as creative collaborations through these grants. Learn more about this $100,000 per year award. Indirect costs are provided.
Young Clinical Scientists
This multi-year award is to help prepare and support new clinical investigators, particularly research fellows and junior faculty members, to provide the bridge between the clinic and the laboratory for the critical translation of basic research findings into diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. Fellow awards are for $75,000 per year; faculty level awards are for $100,000 per year plus indirect costs. Learn about eligibility.
Dr. William Cahan Distinguished Professors
This board-designated award is named for the late Dr. William Cahan, a surgeon at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center for over 50 years, who was a pioneer in the national movement to fight the health hazards of tobacco and second hand smoke. The award is for three-years at $200,000 per year and is made in recognition of the recipients’ ongoing work in combating the diseases caused by exposure to second hand tobacco smoke.
Information about FAMRI-supported research can be found by going to the following links:
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