CAMS HH WANG-NGAI JUNIOR FACULTY AWARD

The CAMS HH Wang-Ngai Junior Faculty Award was created to honor former CAMS President and Executive Director, Dr. Hsueh hwa Wang. Dr. Wang was born in Beijing, attended the National Central University Medical School and graduated in 1946. She came to New York City soon after for post-graduate training before taking a position in the Department of Pharmacology at Columbia the College of P & S where she rose to the rank of Professor. Her research was in the field of physiology and pharmacology of the coronary circulation. Dr. Wang served as President of CAMS in 1982 before becoming the Executive Director of CAMS in 1986. She served in the volunteer position for a quarter of a century, retiring in 2011. After her retirement from Columbia in 1990, she was able to devote much of her free time to CAMS, arranging full day Scientific meetings, fund-raising dinners, donation of scholarships for medical students, and other activities that bolstered a spirit of camaraderie among our members. She was also one of the founding organizers of FCMS (Federation of Chinese American and Chinese Canadian Medical Societies) and later the FCMS Foundation.

The goal of the CAMS HH Wang-Ngai Junior Faculty Award is to support a new Chinese American female clinician investigator or physician-scientist in New York. The investigator should be beginning their careers as an independent researcher and should be at the Clinical Instructor and/or Assistant Professor level at a LCME accredited school of allopathic or osteopathic medicine and should intend to focus on basic or translational or clinical research related to health problems of the Chinese American community.

The award may be used for the collection of preliminary data, equipment, or research personnel (in the form of research coordinator, research assistant, or research technician). The award should be used to strengthen a grant application to be submitted within one year of the award.

The funds cannot be used for salary support of the principal investigator. Institutional indirect costs are not supported.

The award will provide the principal investigator with grants up to $6,000 over a period of 2 years.

The Award will be presented to the Recipient on November 2, 2024 at the CAMS & CAIPA Red Lantern Gala in New York City.

Checklist of required documents

• Complete and submit the online application form
• Signed Cover Page with Title of the project, applicant contact information, and supporting signature of the head of your institution (signing official of the grants department)
• BioSketch (maximum 5 pages)
• Career Goals/Statement (maximum 1 page)
• Research Environment (maximum 1 page)
• Brief Budget Justification (maximum 1 page)
• Project Description
  Within a maximum of 3 pages, include the following sections in your application:
• • Description – Abstract, Specific Aims, Introduction, Preliminary results, Approach
  • Project Timeline
  • Figures and References may be added as appendix (Combined maximum of additional 2 pages)
• Brief Budget Justification (maximum 1 page)
• Two letters of recommendation from senior faculty
  Please be advised that all letters of recommendation should be on official letterhead and signed. Letters can be submitted separately by email to scholarship@camsociety.org

Submission

• All materials should be emailed to scholarship@camsociety.org in a single PDF file. When submitting:
  
• • File Name: Applicant's Last Name, Applicant's First Name HHWangNgai2024
  • Please include your name and "HHWangNgai Award 2024" in your email subject line.

Deadline: Deadline to submit your application and supplemental information is September 30, 2024.