Funding Needs

• Distinguished Professorships - Income from these named endowments will provide salary supplements to recruit and retain the best researchers with outstanding research credentials. They will also contribute to outfitting faculty with equipment, library resources, academic leaves, research assistants and travel. The State of North Carolina will provide matching dollars twoard each professorship endowment.
  
  
• Visiting Fellows Program - This program will bring visiting vaccine researchers to teach, do research, learn new techniques and be available as resources for the vaccine research community. We will place a heavy emphasis on having research fellows from the countries where the diseases we are researching are most prevalent so they can apply their new knowledge when they return home
  
  
• Research Fellowships - Named fellowships provide resources for research support, and salary and travel stipends for medical students and post-doctoral fellows who show promise as vaccine researchers. Having additional researchers also improves CVI’s ability to receive NIH funding.
  
  
• Equipment Upgrades - Adding additional state-of-the-art equipment will not only improve the speed and accuracy of our existing research, but will make our facilities even more attractive to top-quality researchers in the vaccine field.
  
  
• Vaccine Research Fund - Income from a named research fund would provide salary support and resources for important research to help us advance the overall vaccine field. Gifts from this fund could be used for the following:

  
  • Explore potential new vaccine technology concepts
  • Explore new applications for existing technologies
  • Continue existing work between grant cycles
  • Collaborate with other scientists nationally and internationally
  • Advance understanding of basic virus biology
  
  

• Guest Lectureships - To provide for leaders in vaccine related fields to speak to and interact with students, faculty and the community.