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2 Markey Scholar Awards in Biomedical Sciences
2 Markey Scholar Awards in Biomedical Sciences
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Many important ideas emerged from this meeting in Palo Alto, California, some of which subsequently evolved into Markey funded programs. One theme that was emphasized throughout the meeting was the need to support promising young investigators, especially as biomedical research fellowship funding had not kept pace with the needs of researchers seeking to transition from postdoctoral positions to independent research careers.
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This program, the Markey Scholars Awards program, was a hybrid funding mechanism that combined postdoctoral training with the first faculty appointment. Scholars Awards provided adequate support for both the postdoctoral period as well as for the initial years of the faculty appointment, to maximize productivity, foster intellectual growth, and encourage independence.
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Actual Scholar awards ranged from $570,000 to $711,000 depending on the length of the postdoctoral experience and the Scholar's degree. The Markey Trust was unique in providing support for young scientists for up to 8 years, committing a total funding of $59,795,900 for the Markey Scholars program.
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That decrease may reflect the quality of Scholars selected during the initial funding cycles, the complexity of the application package, and the rigor of the Scholar selection process. It may be that some universities whose candidates were not selected may have stopped submitting nominations.
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This statement was limited to 10 double-spaced typewritten pages, half of which was devoted to the research plan and half to research following completion of the fellowship. When institutions submitted their nomination packages, the Markey administration office recorded its arrival, checked it for eligibility and
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The administrative office distributed the compiled listing to the entire selection committee for consideration at the Scholar Selection Committee meeting. The two assigned reviewers brought onepage reviews of the applicant, the proposed research, and the institutional environment, and made oral presentations to the selection committee.
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EVALUATION Of THE MArKEY SCHOLArS PrOGrAM BOX 2-1 Scholar Selection Committee TheinitialScholarSelectionCommittee,formedin1984,consistedofthefollowing10distinguishedbiomedicalscientists: PurnellW.Choppin,M.D.,Chairman VicePresidentforAcademicProgramsandLeonHessProfessorofVirology TheRockefellerUniversity DavidM.Kipnis,M.D.,ViceChairman BuschProfessorandChairman,DepartmentofMedicine WashingtonUniversitySchoolofMedicine BruceM.Alberts,Ph.D. AmericanCancerSocietyLifetimeResearchProfessor Professor,DepartmentofBiochemistryandBiophysics UniversityofCalifornia,SanFrancisco AlfredG.Gilman,M.D.,Ph.D.
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ProfessorandChairman,DepartmentofMedicine VanderbiltUniversity ShirleyM.Tilghman,Ph.D. ProfessorofMolecularBiology PrincetonUniversity TABLE 2-3 Number of Markey Scholar Nominations, by Nomination Outcome and Year Nomination Outcomes Top-Ranked Other Individuals Candidates Competitive Ineligible, Receiving Not Receiving Candidates Incomplete, Scholar Scholar Not or Year Award Award Top-Ranked Unsuccessful Total 1985 16 18 47 135 216 1986 16 23 34 111 184 1987 16 27 28 107 178 1988 17 27 30 52 126 1989 17 29 33 66 145 1990 17 31 27 111 186 1991 15 31 24 106 177 Total 115 186 223 688 1,212 SOURCE: Lucille P
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candidates in one column and all M.D.s and M.D./Ph.D.s in another, and then selected the top individuals, targeting half of the awards to each group. Because of the constraints imposed by the Trust, the selection committee was in the unenviable position of making Markey Scholar Awards to M.D.s or M.D./Ph.D.s with lower priority scores than some of the highly rated Ph.D.
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, as shown in Table 2-4. A total of 115 Markey Scholar Awards were offered to worthy candidates.
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First, the reviewers wanted to ensure that the new appointment would contribute to establishing an independent research agenda for the Scholar. Second, they wanted to ensure that the host institution would comply with the Markey Trust's stipulations for Scholars -- 90 percent time devoted to research, adequate laboratory space and start-up package, and enhancement of academic and research growth.
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In a few cases, Scholars received tersely written warnings that funding would be ended unless and until the Selection Committee was satisfied with the Scholar's demonstration of progress and independence Scholars who left academia for the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry were required to forego their Markey awards; four Scholars left for attractive opportunities in industry. Ten Scholars elected to accept HHMI investigatorships and, consequently, resigned their Markey awards.
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Conferences featured keynote presentations by established biomedical researchers. Some conferences were themed: the 1995 Scholar's Conference, for example, presented a symposium on clinical research in molecular medicine.
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