Internal Deadline for Limited Submission: 2021 Agilent Early Career Professor Award

Limited Submissions: Internal Call for Proposals

2021 Agilent Early Career Professor Award
UNC Internal Deadline: 11:59PM, Monday, January 11, 2021  

 

*Please distribute to relevant faculty*

Key Dates

UNC Internal Deadline: 11:59PM, Monday, January 11, 2021

External Application Deadline: February 26, 2021

Important Information

Eligibility: Professor completed Ph.D. (residency in case of M.D.’s or M.D.- Ph.D.’s) not earlier than January 2011. Early-stage faculty may have a variety of titles. To be eligible for this award the nominee should be on your institution’s path toward full professor.

Award Information

1. An unrestricted research award of $100,000 to be distributed in 2 years to university in the professor’s name
   • Option to use all or part of award to obtain Agilent products at 50% discount
   • Option to accelerate payments to facilitate procurement of equipment with list price over $100,000
2. Engraved plaque commemorating award
3. Recognition on Agilent’s website

To Apply

Submit the following (combined into a SINGLE .pdf) to Limited_Submission@unc.edu by 11:59PM, Monday, January 11, 2021.

1. PI/Proposed team member’s CV/Biosketch (five-page maximum)
2. Project Summary (two-page maximum)
3. List of potential collaborators (internal and external to UNC)
4. Names (along with title, department, and email) of three internal (to UNC) experts who could speak knowledgeably about the candidate’s research and who could potentially serve on an internal review panel.

• • Please do not include the names of faculty named on the project, chairs, deans, directors, direct reports, or others who have a conflict of interest. 

• • Please notify all potential internal reviewers before submitting the pre-proposal packet to ORD. 

Program Overview

The topic of the 2021 award is “Contributions to the development of breakthrough solutions to understand or manage immunological responses to infection, autoimmunity or cancer”.

The purpose of the Agilent Early Career Professor Award is to:

1. Promote and encourage excellent research enabling measurements of importance to Agilent Technologies and the world.
2. Establish strong collaborative relationships between Agilent researchers and leading professors early in their career.
3. Build the prominence of Agilent as a sponsor of university research.

Selection Criteria

The 2021 winner will be selected based on the following selection criteria:

1. Significant original research contributions enabling measurements of importance to Agilent Technologies and the world.
2. Outstanding potential for future research.
3. Professor completed Ph.D. (residency in case of M.D.’s or M.D.- Ph.D.’s) not earlier than January 2011.
4. Alignment with the defined award focus for 2021: Contributions to the development of breakthrough solutions to understand or manage immunological responses to infection, autoimmunity or cancer.

Additional Information

Agilent Solicitation: https://www.agilent.com/univ_relation/profaward/index.shtml

Past Winners: https://www.agilent.com/univ_relation/profaward/pastwinners.shtml

Frequently Asked Questions: https://www.agilent.com/univ_relation/faq.shtml#a

 

To become more familiar with the current Agilent measurement products relevant to this topic you may wish to check the “products & services” section of the www.agilent.com.

 

Contact the Limited Submissions Team with questions at Limited_Submission@unc.edu.

 

UNC-Chapel Hill’s research partnership with Agilent is managed by the Industry Relations team. For more information, please contact the Industry Relations team at industry@unc.edu.

 

 

 

Limited Submissions Team

Office of Research Development

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Chapel Hill, NC 27599

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