CARES at UAB

Built on the promising outcomes of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation’s Fund to Retain Clinical Scientists, DDCF and its funding partners – the American Heart Association, the Burroughs Welcome Fund, John Templeton Foundation, Rita Allen Foundation and Walden Foundation – have come together to provide COVID-19 Fund to Retain Clinical Scientists grants for U.S. medical schools that are evolving to strengthen policies, practices, and processes to support the research productivity and retention of early-career faculty with family caregiving responsibilities.

As part of the program, the UAB COVID-19 Caregiving Affected Early-career Research Scientists (CARES) Retention Program will support funded investigators whose research has been deleteriously impacted by the pandemic with 'extra hands' grants to augment their academic scholarship.

Team

CARES at UAB Awardees

Round 3

The third and final round of CARES at UAB was sponsored by the Heersink School of Medicine.

During this round, CARES at UAB made 4 awards of $50,000 each to investigators who have encountered significant challenges to their research progress and productivity due to caregiving responsibilities caused by the pandemic. "Extra hands" awards are intended to support additional personnel not directly funded by existing research grants as a means to augment and accelerate the conduct of projects to increase peer review scholarship and submission of extramural grant awards. The overarching goal of CARES at UAB is to support the retention of scientists with caregiving responsibilities in academic research positions while raising institutional awareness, programs and fostering a culture that recognizes and supports research faculty who are caregivers.

All 4 awardees are non-physician scientists from the Heersink School of Medicine from Microbiology, Preventive Medicine, and Psychiatry.

Awardees from Heersink School of Medicine

Round 2

The second round of CARES at UAB was sponsored by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Heersink School of Medicine, Center for Clinical and Translational Science, UAB Department of Pediatrics, UAB School of Health Professions, UAB School of Nursing, and UAB School of Public Health.

In the second round of funding, CARES at UAB made 17 awards, up to $50,000, to investigators who have encountered significant challenges to their research progress and productivity due to caregiving responsibilities caused by the pandemic. "Extra hands" awards are intended to support additional personnel not directly funded by existing research grants as a means to augment and accelerate the conduct of projects to increase peer review scholarship and submission of extramural grant awards. The overarching goal of CARES at UAB is to support the retention of scientists with caregiving responsibilities in academic research positions while raising institutional awareness, programs and fostering a culture that recognizes and supports research faculty who are caregivers.

Awardees from Heersink School of Medicine

Awardees from UAB School of Health Professions

Awardees from UAB School of Nursing

Awardees from UAB School of Public Health

Round 1

The first round of CARES at UAB was sponsored by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Heersink School of Medicine. In the first round of funding, CARES at UAB made 7 awards to funded researchers for one year. These “extra hands” awards provide up to $50,000 to early-career physician-scientists who have encountered significant challenges to their research progress and productivity due to caregiving responsibilities caused by the pandemic. Awards are intended to support additional personnel, not directly funded by existing research grants, as a means to augment and accelerate the conduct of projects to increase peer review scholarship and submission of extramural grant awards. The overarching goal of CARES at UAB is to support the retention of early-career physician-scientists with caregiving responsibilities in academic research positions while raising institutional awareness, programs, and fostering a culture that recognizes and supports research faculty who are caregivers.

Awardees include physician-scientists from the Department of Medicine Divisions of Infectious Diseases, Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine, Hematology/Oncology, Preventive Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, and the Department of Pediatrics Division of Hematology/Oncology.

Awardees from Heersink School of Medicine