1.      Personal Information

Name: _________________________________________________________________________

Address/Mail Box Number: _________________________________________________________

Office/Lab Phone: ________________________________________________________________

Home Phone: ____________________________________________________________________

Email Address: ___________________________________________________________________

Advisor(s): _____________________________________________________________________

Advisor’s Phone: _________________________________________________________________

2.      Recommendations:

Name                                                                      Email                                                            Telephone

_____________________________________  _____________________________            ______________

_____________________________________  _____________________________            ______________

_____________________________________  _____________________________            ______________

3.      Residency

CVP applicants must be citizens, nationals, or permanent residents of the United States at the time of application. Please check the appropriate response:

___  U.S. Citizen                   __ U.S. National (Citizen of U.S. Possession)                 __ Permanent Resident

4.      Curriculum Vitae or Resume

Please attach a curriculum vitae (CV).  The CV should include specific skills and knowledge in molecular biology, developmental biology, and general lab skills or resume that highlights your experience or background in education, other areas of education, or experience working with children or children’s issues.  Please include volunteer experience. For predoctoral applicants, please include an official transcript. 

5.                    Statement of Purpose

 

Please submit a statement of purpose not exceeding one (1) page.  The statement should include your career goals.  It is particularly useful to us to learn about recent science you have read and found exciting - not necessarily related to cardiovascular disease.

Please submit the original application with two (2) copies to:

(For letters of reference, only the original letters are required.)

SPONSOR FORM

(For U.W. Faculty sponsoring a CVP Applicant)

Name                                                                      Email                                                            Telephone

_____________________________________  _____________________________            ______________

Begin letter of sponsorship below this line.  You may use up to another sheet of paper if necessary.

Note:  For your duties, obligations and other requirements upon acceptance to the program, please refer to the information below:

Lecture Series
The Cardiovascular Pathology Training Grant (CVP) does require attendance at the Biomedical Research Integrity Lecture Series for all fellows.  We also encourage fellows to provide input into the content of the series.  We have received good feedback in the past especially about the more formal topics such as authorship, intellectual property and interactions with industry.  Dr. Albert Berger, the Associate Dean for Scientific Affairs, welcomes student suggestions for this series.

Vascular Biology Breakfast Club
The Breakfast Club is a lecture series denominated as Path 552, Anatomic Pathology Course that, though listed as a course, is actually an informal one that features both invited lecturers as well as UW faculty, fellows and CVP trainees.  Trainees are expected to present their research in the Breakfast Club, held Tuesday mornings during the fall, winter and spring quarters.  Special lectures may also be held during other days of the week and during the summer quarter.  Check schedules at the website www.uwcvb.org.  Administrative support is provided by the office of Chuck Murry and funded by the reaction to Injury grant and the CVP Training Grant.

Dealing with Issues
Possible issues requiring action include:

a.  Questions of accuracy of scientific data
b.  Questions of authorship of papers
c.  Relationships of academic to industrial research
d.  Patent issues
e.  Conflicts with PI about research directions
f.  Rights of fellows
g.  Rights of other lab personnel

CVP encourages trainees to use the faculty of the training grant as a resource for any issues that may arise vis-à-vis scientific integrity.  If for any reason you feel uncomfortable in discussing an issue of scientific integrity with your mentor, you may contact Dr. Schwartz, the Principal Investigator of this program.  Pre-doctoral fellows should utilize their supervisory committee including the official graduate faculty representative who has been appointed to be your advocate.  You may also contact any other member of the CVP Steering Committee.  Current Steering Committee members are:

Steve Schwartz
Dan Bowen-Pope
Joe Beavo
Debbie Nickerson

Fellows may, of course, also bring any issue to the attention of their Department Chair or the Office for Scientific Affairs in the Dean’s Office.

Issues relating to sexual, racial, religious or other conflicts may be brought to the same faculty or to the UW Ombudsman located in HUB 301 or telephone 543-6028 and fax 685-6816.

Obligations
Except for the above minimum requirements for CVP fellows, we do not require any other additional requirements beyond those required by the mentors of the fellows in the conduct of research.  In addition, there are the usual reportorial requirements where fellows are asked to provide a yearly update of their research in one or two paragraphs as well as their papers, whether published or unpublished, to coincide with the submission of competitive and non-competitive renewals of the grants, as well as their commitment to be contacted up to ten years after terminating their fellowships.  These reportorial requirements and personal updates do not require any complicated preparation of papers but simply summaries of their work as well as updates of their current information like positions , addresses, telephones and other professional data.